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

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1 You know I mean can you think of anything more ridiculous with there you go they probably have n't got any other leg to stan I mean that 's no leg to stand on but they 've got nothing else to say really you know .
2 Oh yeah I mean if you wanted to also link that with multicultural situation or or cross cultural or comparing it with other ones I mean that 's no problem .
3 I mean that 's no problem
4 I mean that 's a bit daft really !
5 But yeah , I can see that , I can see that side of it but , I do n't know , just people that you say something in confidence to like , not like Trem but well er yeah I told , I told well Jenny take that thing that you told her , I mean that 's a bit off .
6 You ca n't tell they 're the same the only way you can tell is if they 're , if they 're working with number , I mean that 's a plus or a positive that 's a positive three .
7 Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility .
8 I mean that 's a possibility .
9 But I mean that 's a child 's expression and that 's
10 Convert it to the same units , use the formula and then I mean that 's a gift that is n't it ?
11 Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her .
12 Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ?
13 I mean that 's the meat .
14 It 's just a very good way of er teaching chi I mean children will I mean that 's the kind of experience
15 Go back and let me but , yeah , I mean that 's the idea .
16 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
17 ‘ No , I mean that 's the word — ‘ hurry ’ . ’
18 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 .
19 Well , there is n't , I mean that 's the problem .
20 I mean that 's the way it should go Rog .
21 ‘ You mean that 's the way back to camp ?
22 Yeah but I mean that 's the way it 's meant to work .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’
26 Britain incidentally had two thousand times as , as many but I mean that 's the sort of contrast which perhaps you would expect .
27 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 .
28 Cos that , I mean that 's the sort of thing which we get over the problem
29 So I mean that 's the sort of atmosphere that we we 've got to try and
30 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 .
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