Example sentences of "[pers pn] might mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , to ‘ protect ’ them might mean that they ended up with no jobs at all . |
| 2 | She suggests that children who score low on both comprehension and production may be immature or mentally retarded , although no explanation is provided as to what she might mean by these terms . |
| 3 | Who knew what an unhappy woman might say in such straits , and how little she might mean it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 5 | You might mean well , but find someone else to experiment on ! ’ |
| 6 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 7 | Last spring , when local authorities were rushing to finish community care plans , a report came out which showed they might mean nothing to many people . |
| 8 | Jay knew it , numbed herself against what it might mean . |
| 9 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 10 | When Oz found the note , we reckoned it might be — it might mean — ’ She doubled her fists and looked frantically up at Mr Hollins . |
| 11 | It might mean nothing or everything . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it might mean less CO 2 . |
| 13 | If she missed it , it might mean that she would be too late to rescue Joe . |
| 14 | At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address . |
| 15 | And it might mean something else . |
| 16 | Yet it is only through particular instances of truth that we can come to understand what it might mean to speak of absolute Truth . |
| 17 | For Gandhi , particular religions are necessary to convey what it might mean to speak of the one , true and perfect Religion which is beyond predication and not realized within finite existence . |
| 18 | While applauding the women of anger , Miki was worried that it might mean that anyone who writes about anything less traumatic and violent is considered to be less important . |
| 19 | To go onstage in the flag is to be a 50p magnet , no matter what it might mean in an ideal world . |
| 20 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 21 | If this does n't work , it might mean that your hard disk is starting to fail . |
| 22 | Though this wo n't mean the building of a theme park , it might mean introducing game machines to the island and other such measures . |
| 23 | But , alternatively , it might mean that there is a further debate to conduct . |
| 24 | It might mean getting one additional customer in the shop or producing one extra unit in the factory . |
| 25 | It might mean selling one more inch of classified advertising space or encouraging one of your team to be as entrepreneurial as you . |
| 26 | so that 's good , because it might mean money , it means of having |
| 27 | Now erm well let , let me start again people think okay , if the Conservatives win , win control alright it might be another fifty pence on night class at the er at the , the college you know , something something like that erm it might mean erm a few redundancies in the town hall and a greater level of privatization but s but people tend to think well so what so long as the bins are getting emptied . |
| 28 | It might mean , it prob er I suppose in a sense that does n't matter very much to me but I suppose it might matter if you 're sixty yeah yeah . |
| 29 | From this it follows that we could give some account of what it might mean to ‘ change the context ’ in the sense in which Fillmore ( 1977 : 119 ) envisages this when he says ‘ I … find myself asking what the effect would have been if the context had been slightly different . ’ |
| 30 | It meant , or it might mean , that you screenplay was receiving serious , even agonized , consideration . |