Example sentences of "has a [adj] meaning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Aberdeen and Shetland mail steamers call at Wick Bay , weather permitting ; this clause has a deep meaning in it , as many can witness who have seen how the waves break on that shore at times . |
| 2 | Hence , the quotation marks around the word ‘ doing ’ emphasize that it has a technical meaning in sociology , for lying behind the process is a body of common-sense and official police knowledge which informs the methods and practices according to which activities are done . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , despite its vagueness , the term ‘ deindustrialization ’ has a real meaning to all who have lived in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 4 | The authors concerned assume that the word " father " ( or its equivalent in other languages ) has a single meaning in itself , whereas in fact it has many different meanings depending upon what other term forms the other half of the dyadic relationship . |
| 5 | The concept of space has a different meaning to different cultures . |
| 6 | A day by the seaside has a different meaning on the breezy east coast . |
| 7 | Randomness , which again is something that has a precise meaning in this context and certainly not equivalent to " take anyone that comes along " , is necessary to ensure that the estimate of the population value is unbiased . |
| 8 | That phrase ‘ there is no alternative ’ has a special meaning in the vocabulary of Thatcherism . |