Sentence examples for could mean simply from inspiring English sources

But the difference could mean simply surviving for a few more weeks or days.

It could mean simply allowing broking over the telephone to continue.

Frank Kermode said her writing had a "baffling clarity", but that could mean simply that he couldn't quite work out how she did what she did.

Even in the imagined-good old days, the phrase "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" could mean simply that the king had head lice.

By that he could mean simply that he got some of his ideas from places outside this country, from Kenya (his father) or Palestine (Said) or Brazil (Unger).

Prosecutors tried to counter this problem with their own experts who testified that the absence of traces of pepper spray could mean simply that the amounts were too small or had been wiped away.

The drop could mean people simply think The Walking Dead is a better watch.

Couldn't those words mean simply what they say?

That could mean there are simply fewer single-parent families.

The inconclusive results from the negation tests could mean that speakers simply disagree about whether have yet to makes a sentence negative, or it could mean that have yet to puts a sentence somewhere between negative and positive.

The performance of exports – particularly exports of services – has, however, to date been somewhat disappointing". Bean said anecdotal evidence of businesses bringing back to the UK activities that they had previously "offshored" could mean it was simply a matter of time before the UK began to close a current account deficit worth 4% of national output in 2013.