Example sentences of "[det] mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | and vote for the parties that excludes them , but that mean the sort of thing he he does n't make much of that . |
| 2 | The duke and his close associates saw this small office as ‘ some mean to treat those folks who Club together and are disposed to believe that I 'm incompatible wt them ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Some mean them . |
| 4 | This mean that as it has already applied to run that route it only now needs clearance from the British government . |
| 5 | This mean that there were only 18 enquirers in our sample ( 19% ) . |
| 6 | Developments like this mean that even if alluvial gold gives out or becomes less profitable , the uncontrolled search for wealth will continue and accelerate . |
| 7 | This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams . |
| 8 | What does what does a hundred to the power half mean ? |
| 9 | Okay , so what does sixteen to the power a half mean ? |
| 10 | And a ha a quarter of a beat is do you know what a half mean ? |
| 11 | This meant that couples who had married across the religious divide were not allowed to adopt at all . |
| 12 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 13 | This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and , being light , they often blew over . |
| 14 | This meant the knife ; bones were broken : what about my prospects of finally climbing Minus One Direct ? |
| 15 | I once asked a colleague in linguistics if this meant that the criticism of , oh , Addison , Keats , Hopkins , Forster , was valueless . |
| 16 | If this meant there were potential conflicts between research and pedagogy , that was a price that had to be paid . |
| 17 | Britain bowed limply to China 's demands — even though this meant weaseling-out of previous pledges to put a representative elected government into Hong Kong before 1997 , and even though Peking itself had promised a ‘ Hong Kong run by Hong Kong people ’ . |
| 18 | This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses — security printing and heating and bathroom products . |
| 19 | Dr Cunningham said this meant prices would rise ‘ for the slightest reason . |
| 20 | Ann Taylor , a Labour environment spokeswoman , claimed this meant consumers would be forced to pay for new sewage works if the European Commission banned the dumping of raw sewage at sea . |
| 21 | He hoped that the markets would see that he had tied sterling to the Deutschmark and that they would realise that this meant a commitment to achieving German-style price stability . |
| 22 | This meant that the localities were overstaffed with poorly paid semiliterates at the receiving end of an ever-growing mountain of paperwork from the hyperactive guberniia towns and from Moscow . |
| 23 | This meant , he argued , that in the 1960s the members of the EEC were able to develop a large and sophisticated market with much technical innovation as a result , while Britain continued to trade in its traditional markets , still partly obsessed with its Commonwealth relationships . |
| 24 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 25 | This meant in particular a direct attack on public-sector institutions and their custodians . |
| 26 | In effect , this meant a steady decline in public funding , problems in finding support for artistic experimentation , and financial crises for such famous museums as the Tate Gallery in London and the Ashmolean in Oxford . |
| 27 | Given the party 's pledges on pensions , defence , law and order , and other statutory commitments , particularly on social security , this meant that spending cuts would have to fall in a few areas , notably housing . |
| 28 | The results have not been dissimilar when Gallup has asked whether voters preferred a cut in local rates if this meant a reduction in local services or an extension of the services even if this involved an increase in rates . |
| 29 | for the British , this meant state-owned airlines flying state-developed aircraft operating on agreed internationally controlled routes and frequencies . |
| 30 | This meant no controls on foreign investment within that zone , and the unplanned outcome of this was a huge capital outflow from Britain to the sterling area as London rediscovered its traditional predilection for investing in the ‘ white Commonwealth ’ . |