Example sentences of "mean it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A search will reveal if a company is carrying a heavy burden of debt , for example , but remember , this does n't mean it 's about to go into liquidation . |
| 2 | But I mean it is Never mind . |
| 3 | I mean it is only to have something with you , in n it ? |
| 4 | The immediacy of the D-18 transfers wonderfully to strumming ; it 's big and it 's grand , but the brightness and the zinginess mean it 's best played with a modicum of right-arm restraint . |
| 5 | I mean it 's just getting worse and worse and worse . |
| 6 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 7 | It adds weight , I mean it 's just to make the letters bigger . |
| 8 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 9 | Well it 's blatantly taking the piss , let's be honest , I mean , I ca n't muck around , I mean it 's blatantly taking the piss is n't it ? |
| 10 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 11 | ‘ You mean it 's slightly degrading ? ’ said Sophia . |
| 12 | Well you can fit so much in to an hour I mean it 's not rushed . |
| 13 | I mean it 's not packed though , the shops were n't I mean tomorrow morning it 'll be m murder there it 'll be |
| 14 | I mean it 's not costing two pound to send that ! |
| 15 | Well yeah , but I mean it 's not providing half the business is it ? |
| 16 | But yeah I mean it 's not going to be quite so true because they 're gon na think Well when you write it down you think Well actually it 's got nothing to do with this be really clever . |
| 17 | I mean it 's not going to be a hundred and fifty , because a hundred and fifty is |
| 18 | I mean it 's not gon na be , it 's not gon na be easy but if we start developing it erm there 's no reason |
| 19 | We we will ask , I mean it 's not gon na be something that 's vital |
| 20 | Well I think it is They ought to last a fair time they I mean it 's not gon na be abused really is it at those windows ? |
| 21 | I think so and that 's a fairly I mean it 's not gon na be heavy moral point here is it but while it shows up you can treat a woman as an object in this way do n't you think ? |
| 22 | because if you 're expecting it to perform like , I mean it 's not gon na perform like that if it 's the sixteen hundred in a heavier body car is it ? |
| 23 | I mean every Sunday , we have a , a Sunday dinner , I mean it 's usually chicken , cos it 's the cheapest one there is , but I mean we still have a Sunday dinner , we have fresh veg and everything . |
| 24 | I mean it 's like imagining one without the wheel or something . |
| 25 | Well the thing is , I mean it 's like buying it as you 're going ahead and just totally re-tiling it and going round . |
| 26 | So that 's well , before we can go in , launch into this , I mean it 's often said that erm , er , well , one of the major reasons why agricultural commodity trade has n't been included in GATT , like virtually every other er , product has been , is because governments are saying , look this is a domestic policy , it 's got nothing to do with international trade , we 're supporting our farmers , it 's a domestic policy . |
| 27 | I mean it 's actually giving light out , but er there 's one over there if anybody |
| 28 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 29 | Yeah , I mean it 's about to decide whether you lose situations now I lose Everybody else is much better than me , everybody else has got a far better right to actually |
| 30 | Its bookshops are on a par , which means it is well catered for . |