Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] mean the [noun] " 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 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Q. You mean the end of the story of the resistance in Nicaragua ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Do to make more room I mean the furniture was much less monumental than ours is if you see what I mean . |
| 11 | By environment I mean the mood , the atmosphere of the campaign , its tone and the preoccupations Of the voters . |
| 12 | By concretion I mean the parables , the stories and the history , the images , symbols and metaphors by which it is carried . |
| 13 | Finally , by combined ( complex ) competition we mean the struggle that is waged by combined enterprises , i.e. , capitalist units which amalgamate various branches of production , i.e. , which transform the social division of labour into a technical division . |
| 14 | No I 'm not so I mean things like that there 's wear and tear I mean the seats have to be recovered the carpet 's have to be replaced the place has to be redecorated yes we do that . |
| 15 | or the blue I mean the red 's gone all right . |
| 16 | By self-determination we mean the right for us to associate and integrate with the unitary state , or , as a nation , to secede . ’ |
| 17 | By delivery of care we mean the way in which nursing care is planned and put into practice . |
| 18 | Yeah we 've got the daily You mean the council staff ? |
| 19 | By the international financial structure we mean the system by which in a market-based economy , credit is created , bought and sold and by which , therefore , the use of capital is determined . |
| 20 | To actually go through it a bit at a time I mean the majority of it is fine |
| 21 | By representation I mean the use of language to reflect or reinforce the content of a text , following the much-quoted dictum of pope . |
| 22 | By design I mean the shapes of the individual pieces and finished look while the reason for stocking stitch is that colour is often the only finishing touch a garment needs — texture and colour work sometimes but not always . |
| 23 | By a horizontal merger we mean the union of two firms at the same production stage in the same industry , for example the merger of two steel producers or two motor car manufacturers . |
| 24 | By a vertical merger we mean the union of two firms at different production stages in the same industry , as when a car manufacturer merges with a steel producer . |