Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a similar letter from Glasgow ; this time the writing was marginally more educated , and the paper of slightly heavier stock , but the letter was couched in the same guarded terms : a half-yearly profit that was a substantial increase on the same period last year . |
| 2 | You can recreate an electric guitar accurately enough , down to fractions of a millimetre if you want to , but can you recreate the thirty years of wear and tear that 's the main attraction of a knackered old Strat ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean that 's no problem |
| 6 | Convert it to the same units , use the formula and then I mean that 's a gift that is n't it ? |
| 7 | And s I mean that 's a a sort of non-linguistic of the people use but you sort of |
| 8 | And er small pads I mean that 's a , that 's a pad you can take |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean how , how we 're gon na get all the numbers I do n't know but , but I mean that 's a , when |
| 11 | B Sky B is ahead of last year but I mean that 's a growing business , you would expect it to be . |
| 12 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 13 | But I mean that 's a terrifying thing to have found him in |
| 14 | I mean that 's a good way of putting it . |
| 15 | You , you apologized for lateness the only thing I wonder on there is er you know it 's ea it 's easy enough to say that you did n't actually sort of clarify the time that you were gon na be there , you just accepted that you were late erm but I mean that 's a you know ju just a point I wonder that rather than apologizing straight of all , straight , straight away if you knew you were late then that was one thing that perhaps you could 've got that in the initial greeting . |
| 16 | I mean that 's a bit daft really ! |
| 17 | Well , yeah that is , I 'm I mean that 's a completely different er er laxing of the , it 's completely different . |
| 18 | I mean that 's a silly place to put it Amy . |
| 19 | I mean that 's a rare thing . |
| 20 | But I took Li Tracey 's book in and probably I 've seen the Tracey and marked it down there you see on Tracey 's instead of Linda 's , which , I mean that 's a genuine mistake int it ? |
| 21 | But I mean that 's a child 's expression and that 's |
| 22 | I mean that 's a |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I mean that 's a possibility . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I mean that 's a loaded word . |
| 27 | Erm , anyway , I mean that 's a |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I mean that 's an almost perfect match is n't it to the furniture . |
| 30 | 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 ? |