Example sentences of "mean the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
| 3 | you mean the first half of the table ? |
| 4 | I mean the wholesale alienation of my entire sales staff . |
| 5 | The victory did not , however , mean the immediate defeat of England ; that was to be a rather longer process . |
| 6 | By ‘ annihilation ’ I mean the total extinction of life , except possibly some subterranean or aquatic forms . |
| 7 | Yes , Dehad , you mean the political life of the country is devoid of you 're erm whatever you have to offer ? |
| 8 | ‘ I mean the commonsensical world of material objects and appearances . |
| 9 | I mean the narrowest part of the river I would say is er where Hall Bridge is , that 's the narrowest part . |
| 10 | really I mean the actual content of them is not too young fo too old for her but |
| 11 | I mean the famous case of the Thalidomide erm is obviously in everybody 's mind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The form of report with which we are dealing we have termed the ‘ corporate report ’ , by which we mean the comprehensive package of information of all kinds which most completely describes an organization 's economic activity … |
| 16 | erm I mean the highest percentage of overseas visitors to this country are from America , and people , you know , like Paul Duffy at Blenheim Palace , you know , depend a great deal on the American visitor . |
| 17 | When talking about fitness , I mean the basic amount of exercise necessary to keep our bodies in working order , not activities like athletics , weight-lifting , assault courses or long-distance running . |
| 18 | I mean the whole point of it is right is it does n't make any difference how you reply to an invitation . |
| 19 | I mean the whole point of this really is |
| 20 | I mean if they 'd been trodden , downtrodden for thousands of years , I mean the whole power of the landlords is in the , the councils in the erm townships everywhere . |
| 21 | ‘ Barbed wire , chemicals , heavy machinery and busy roads all mean the rapid disappearance of natural play areas . ’ |