Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] mean the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes I mean if it is possible to provide that huge acreage I mean the space per player or whatever is rather less for croquet than for cricket , is n't it ? |
| 2 | Do you know the story I mean the parable I mean ? |
| 3 | Money is tight so we need to be quite clear on I mean for instance I mean the seats have been recovered you know people smoking in the seats when they should n't be smoking and putting they 're putting their cigarette 's out on the floor I do n't know |
| 4 | No and just have a look at the computer I mean the printer that 's about half a metre long . |
| 5 | Well of course I mean the the point there is |
| 6 | Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same , however . |
| 7 | Well , well his parents I mean the extreme Protestants are , are on the rise I mean in South America you know I mean the world 's largest Pentecostal Churches are in Lima and Peru and millions are now becoming erm born-again Christians in South America . |
| 8 | But in a sense I mean I can erm I mean I agree with everything you 've said , erm but er when Murdoch took over the Sun I mean the Sun was selling , at one point was selling about four million copies which is |
| 9 | Erm and provide the freebie I mean the the the cages , the giveaway |
| 10 | There are games in our region and as you rightly say they 're great for us but er I would n't say that they 're Derbies I mean the Derbies are are Birmingham West Brom and West Brom |
| 11 | It 's all good fun royal visits I mean the last |
| 12 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 13 | Well I think Robert 's , er I mean Robert 's always a good guide on these matters I mean the F |
| 14 | By duties I mean the responsibilities of which teachers ' work is composed . |
| 15 | By socialist accumulation we mean the addition to the functioning means of production of a surplus product which has been created within the constituted socialist economy and which does not find its way into supplementary distribution among the agents of socialist production and the socialist state , but serves for expanded reproduction . |
| 16 | By the law of primitive socialist accumulation we mean the entire sum of conscious and semi-spontaneous tendencies in the state economy which are directed towards the expansion and consolidation of the collective organisation of labour in Soviet economy and which are dictated to the Soviet state on the basis of necessity : ( 1 ) the determination of proportions in the distribution of productive forces , formed on the basis of struggle against the law of value inside and outside the country and having as their objective task the achievement of the optimum expanded socialist reproduction in the given conditions and of the maximum defensive capacity of the whole system in conflict with capitalist commodity production ; ( 2 ) the determination of the proportions of accumulation of material resources for expanded reproduction , especially at the expense of private economy , in so far as the determined amounts of the accumulation are dictated compulsorily to the Soviet state under threat of economic disproportion , growth of private capital , weakening of the bond between the state economy and peasant production , derangement in years to come of the necessary proportions of expanded socialist reproduction and weakening of the whole system in its conflict with capitalist commodity production inside and outside the country . |
| 17 | Q. You mean the end of the story of the resistance in Nicaragua ? |
| 18 | Same with petrol stations I mean the way they spill the petrol . |
| 19 | she does n't seem the type that would be a school teacher I mean the erm that erm seven , eight year old that she teaches and I just think what she 's like at school . |
| 20 | I mean when one starts to , to scratch the surface , let me just give one example I mean we feel er I M R O fails on on its membership I mean the fact that you had Bishopsgate Investment Management which was the beneficial owner was an organisation in Liechtenstein . |
| 21 | Do to make more room I mean the furniture was much less monumental than ours is if you see what I mean . |
| 22 | As a group I mean the other thing that surprised me a bit , I , I spoke to Ken yesterday and said , how did you receive ? |
| 23 | The standard SII Land Rover has 4.7:1 diffs which mean the pinion shaft of the differential turns 4.7 times ( as does the prop shaft . |
| 24 | The connection between politics and business — and by business we mean the entire framework of peaceful commerce upon which the prosperity of this country depends — appears to be ignored , or , at least , treated with indifference and something like contempt . |
| 25 | By saying that the account explains considered judgements we mean the following . |
| 26 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 27 | But there was a degree of intelligence and the Newfoundland of course is er spectacular dog , particularly in water I mean the Irish Water Spaniel 's pretty good in water so as a |
| 28 | By self-discipline we mean the judicious guidance of our desires and impulses through the elaborate filter of convention so as to obtain the maximum amount of self-satisfaction and social approval . |
| 29 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 30 | For example I mean the one thing about the Europe that the Eastbourne electorate apparently ah understood erm was I 'm sorry the Christchurch electorate understood , was a social contract . |