Example sentences of "mean [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I mean you 're one week into the regime ? |
| 2 | I mean there is extra heating requirement in buildings which are cooled much faster when they are subject to high winds , but I think we can see these coming up in the next ten , fifteen years we will start to see these . |
| 3 | I mean there is that biography as soon as she gets disguised . |
| 4 | I mean there is some overlap between biology |
| 5 | Yes , I mean there is some evidence to suggest that senior staff we found are very rarely completely away from the office . |
| 6 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 7 | So is the innovation I mean there are other knitting needles but there is still this type of what we call burns needles being used today . |
| 8 | I mean there 's downright brutality , and , and , and deserved to be called nothing else . |
| 9 | Now , if we are going to , for instance , allow I mean there 's one organisation , number five , which says it 's a national , although it 's called Cherwell Round Table , which says it 's just a national body raising funds for numerous charities . |
| 10 | I mean there 's one woman there working on a Three Eight Sixes twenty five megahertz and she works off the floppy all the time , she does n't use the hard drive . |
| 11 | Well exactly , I mean there 's double parking in a single line and the lady weary . |
| 12 | I mean there 's another hour . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean there 's another way ? ’ |
| 14 | I mean there 's this line |
| 15 | ‘ You mean there 's some difficulty ? |
| 16 | And it 's alright but yo I mean there 's British football |
| 17 | I mean there was total chaos . |
| 18 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 19 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 20 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 21 | I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit . |
| 22 | Cos they 're , I mean they 're nice sort of wrapped up . |
| 23 | I do n't know if you remember but ages ago , round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies , for erm , for Sian , Sian was going camping and she had n't got shorts or anything , so she borrowed it off me , I was thinking of Stacey starting , I wanted the t I 'm not bothered about the shorts , but I want the T-shirt and I 'm just gon na get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy , when she first starts and then we could , Deana 's moving up to Guides this , so she can have that sweatshirt of er , I mean they 're nine pound |
| 24 | I mean they 're all history . |
| 25 | They should all be the same , let's put them together anyway , even if they 're not , we should put them together because erm I mean they 're all part of the same company anyway . |
| 26 | Overseas competition basically there again is I mean er erm okay I mean I B M I mean they 're collapsing day by day and companies like I C L and what have you . |
| 27 | Oh yeah I mean they were good company to go out with and I said to you at dinner time and then since they 've joined us , so we was all the same |
| 28 | I mean they were bright green , and I thought it was a different bike , I did n't even noticed the second time if it was a ladies or a man 's bike . |
| 29 | Apart from the 4-SUBS , traffic levels meant there was little chance for stock to fall out of the bottom of the cascade . |
| 30 | The timetable we had to work to meant there was little opportunity to do anything with the draft scripts except change factual errors . |