Example sentences of "[vb base] [det] [is] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I mean that 's the meat .
2 It 's just a very good way of er teaching chi I mean children will I mean that 's the kind of experience
3 Go back and let me but , yeah , I mean that 's the idea .
4 You know the sys that I mean that 's the system this is say this is the key to a good getting on for eighty percent
5 ‘ No , I mean that 's the word — ‘ hurry ’ . ’
6 Oh , yes , oh , yes , I mean that 's the purpose of the call log really , to split down to every extension number the calls made .
7 Well , there is n't , I mean that 's the problem .
8 I mean that 's the way it should go Rog .
9 ‘ You mean that 's the way back to camp ?
10 Yeah but I mean that 's the way it 's meant to work .
11 I mean it 's the old story , is n't it , one person who gets killed on a Bank Holiday car crash is not news but four getting killed together is a disaster , is newsworthy , I mean that 's the way it works .
12 J.B. Oh yes , absolutely deliberately , to be respectable , because you know youth workers , well you know , what is it Chris ( the Community Deputy ) has got this phrase ‘ trendy , left wing , arty-farty bi-sexual ’ or something he says and I mean that 's the youth worker image is n't it ?
13 ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’
14 Britain incidentally had two thousand times as , as many but I mean that 's the sort of contrast which perhaps you would expect .
15 But I mean that 's the sort of thing we 've just got to deal with you know we ca n't do anything about that .
16 Cos that , I mean that 's the sort of thing which we get over the problem
17 So I mean that 's the sort of atmosphere that we we 've got to try and
18 I mean that 's the sort of thing if the press decides that somebody 's not a good thing , then that person is not a good thing and almost nothing he or she can do can change it .
19 right , now , I mean that 's the basis that I start with June excuse me , now that 's the basis you said did n't we ?
20 Right , I mean that 's the time when a video is useful .
21 unless we can divert money from other sources , but that 's erm , well I mean that 's the reality behind fifteen years of fairly steady growth , and I mean looking at at plateauing out , I think .
22 It seemed sort of hot but er I mean that 's the trouble at the moment because even if it 's something minor thing , it seems so dramatic .
23 I mean that is the top of the range professional , it 'll cost you more like , but I mean it 'll last you a lifetime if you do n't use it that is .
24 I mean that is the thing yo you know , hope they want to auction like that .
25 that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason
26 No well it 's nought zero that 's the temperature where water freezes .
27 I mean this is the kind of comment we will get from somebody who has spent the past five years on the village hall management committee .
28 Well absolutely I mean this is the way that things have always worked and the County Council makes a global assessment of requirements for a particular district and the district council then takes it forward with assumptions on small sites , windfall sites er and major allocations that they may be mad making .
29 Yes , I mean this is the point I 'll be developing later , later in , in , in the lectures , I 'm currently spending a lot of time kind of researching and thinking about this , but i i it 's ultimately the question of genes affect behaviour and more and more I come to the to the view that they probably do so erm through what we call our emotions , that our genes kind of erm guide us to do so and things through various subjective feelings like when we 're hungry , we , we know we 're hungry and it 's a subjective feeling of hunger .
30 I mean this is the language some of this is the language of extremes
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