Example sentences of "[pers pn] means [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A voice behind her said , ‘ She means on the quiet , Ma . ’ |
| 2 | Elizabeth does not love me , but she does not always hate me , and when she brushes my hair perhaps she means to be kind . |
| 3 | The task of the theist , as I see it in this book , is to define what he or she means by the word ‘ God ’ , and to give some evidence for believing that this Deity exists . |
| 4 | Whatever the uncertainty about whether God exists , the theist has a duty to be precise about what he or she means by ‘ God ’ . |
| 5 | This may seem confusing if it is not made clear what she means by ‘ literal ’ . |
| 6 | I think the hon. Lady ought to be clear about what she means by assistance . |
| 7 | It means about a penny on the price of a pint , five pence on a bottle of wine and about ( 28p ) twenty eight pence on a bottle of spirits . |
| 8 | When really it means with no respect ! |
| 9 | He do n't know if it means with or without him . |
| 10 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 11 | What the world is saying Former Bonn ambassador writes What it means for arms control All to hail , and all to play for WSLeader Comment , page 22 |
| 12 | What it means for ‘ us ’ is not so much the resurrection of ‘ anti-pop ’ , but a culture of margins ; a disdainful gaze upon the terrain we once occupied , a satellite relationship to a pop centre now barred to us . |
| 13 | Intensive indoor rearing of livestock is relatively new and people are only just beginning to realise what it means for the animals . |
| 14 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 15 | What it means for the broader economy is that the current housing crisis is more serious than ever , and there does n't seem to be an end in sight . |
| 16 | It is a very damaging doubt and needs to be blocked firmly by a decisive reaffirmation of what it means for Christianity to be true . |
| 17 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 18 | She is to know what it means for her husband to " rule " over her . |
| 19 | Our aim so far has been to show that the " stylistic variant " view of style , which supports the dualist 's conviction that style can be distinguished from message , can lead to a more precise understanding of what it means for a writer to choose this rather than that way of putting things . |
| 20 | negative and excluding people , but I also think that labels can be very , very positive and very , very important and that 's , I think that 's why erm , people thought up the word feminism and yeah , okay we have to think about the word and we have to think about what it means for us so yeah , a lot of pe , er people do n't want to call themselves feminists because the label has such negative connotations , but it does also mean very positive things , it 's a way of bringing people together , it 's a way of supporting each other , it 's , you know it 's , brings solidarity to the movement and people need labels . |
| 21 | We would urge you to think about the consequences of what it proposes and what it means for you . |
| 22 | Local government is on the verge of collapse , but who gives a damn on the Conservative Benches about that and what it means for local government services ? |
| 23 | The important point is what it means for the settlement to the environment of North Yorkshire . |
| 24 | ‘ We wanted analysis of the Treaty and we believe every board of directors should get a copy so they can ask their lawyers exactly what it means for their business . ’ |
| 25 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 26 | It means at least they are men of good sense . ’ |
| 27 | Commonly it means at any instant having several partially-executed programs , among which the computer resources have to be shared in such a way that they interact ( if at all ) only in authorized ways . |
| 28 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 29 | But , if it 's positively associated , it means as one score increases , the tendency is for the other score to increase . |
| 30 | If it 's negatively correlated , it means as one score increases , the tendency is for the other one to decrease , and if it 's virtually zero it means there 's no relationship between the two . |