Example sentences of "[vb -s] it mean " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does it mean , standing there in the empty room , bigger than a man ? |
| 2 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 3 | If as Marx said , the working class have no country , what does it mean to have a place in a culture anyway ? |
| 4 | What does it mean to be ‘ English ’ when so many people are disenfranchised in this country ? |
| 5 | Does it mean anything to most children ? |
| 6 | What does it mean that a market has crashed ? |
| 7 | And yet what does it mean to understand the formulations of someone for whom , on the face of it , final understanding is impossible , or never to be fully achieved ? |
| 8 | Or does it mean that if total incomes rise by 4 per cent and total profits by 5 per cent , all profits are subject to a levy of one-fifth of their increase over the previous period ? |
| 9 | And what if anything does it mean still ? |
| 10 | But what does it mean ? |
| 11 | The word ‘ modern ’ used in Hindi or Punjabi does not have its English meaning , nor does it mean liberated or even progressive . |
| 12 | ‘ What does it mean ? ’ one of these exquisitely saried ladies asked with a slight transatlantic drawl , ‘ surely in this day and age we all work . |
| 13 | ‘ What does it mean ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | What does it mean ? |
| 15 | Does it mean that she is cold-hearted ? |
| 16 | What does it mean for us today ? |
| 17 | ‘ What does it mean ? ’ |
| 18 | What does it mean ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That does n't sound too awful — or does it mean you 'll be in purdah ? ’ |
| 20 | Does it mean that Abraham no longer has any trust in God 's promises ? |
| 21 | The precise meaning of this formulation is unclear — does it mean ‘ lose self-control and kill ’ , or ‘ lose self-control and kill in the way D did ’ — but it seems to derive from the notion that there are degrees of loss of self-control . |
| 22 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 23 | Does it mean that you still care ? |
| 24 | Does it mean that the survivor will never see them again in whatever sort of afterlife they envisage ? |
| 25 | ‘ What does it mean here , where it says that this used to be a ‘ crubeen shop ’ ? ’ |
| 26 | And what does it mean ? ’ |
| 27 | What does it mean ? |
| 28 | What does it mean to say that something exists ? |
| 29 | Nutrition is a word everyone uses these days but what does it mean ? |
| 30 | What does it mean ? |