Example sentences of "mean [adj] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean some of those some of those are already done are n't they . |
| 2 | I mean some of those old age pensioners bloody |
| 3 | children , and talking about the strain , I mean some of these kids are very , very disturbed but I voted that I would , I would do it again . |
| 4 | I mean some of these projects you 're talking about thirty seven million pound projects |
| 5 | I mean some of these you ai n't even looked at , the Panasonic and things like that , it might be |
| 6 | Yes , there is actually , I mean some of these wide runners who do tend to feel the ground erm when it 's top of the ground . |
| 7 | for the mo I mean some of this may depend upon the availability of music . |
| 8 | fancy the paella he said no problem I make paella so , I mean all of half an hour went by , but we went in and we had paella and then all these people started dancing , they moved the chairs back and they started clapping and singing and dancing and I said is this |
| 9 | Well I mean first of all you 'll smell it . |
| 10 | I mean first of all I would need to believe in the company the product and that the quality is saleable . |
| 11 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 12 | And if er , I mean one of these girls is worth maybe three others , you know , they 're all erm , they 'll , and still clear the shopfloor , get them downstairs , and sweep up for you in say , four hours , and one person does that while the rest . |
| 13 | But by language I do not only mean that of spoken words or written symbols . |
| 14 | Today 's announcement could mean some of those health boards wo n't be running any of the hospitals in their area . |
| 15 | That meant one of two things — the remaining houses were either being patched up or demolished to make way for pre-fabs . |
| 16 | Natural behaviour can mean one of two things . |
| 17 | And when I say the country I do n't mean one of those villages just off the motorway full of people just like us buying Australian Chardonnay from the local wine merchant and the only time you hear an ooo-aarr accent is when you 're listening to the Archers in the bath . |
| 18 | Paul means all of this , but it comes out sounding wrong . |
| 19 | This means first of all that prisons compete with other government responsibilities for extremely precious resources and secondly that the question of ‘ lesseligibility ’ inevitably raises its head . |
| 20 | What do you think my question means first of all , Richard ? |
| 21 | For such authors this generally means one of two things : diminishing respect by the young for adults , or diminishing respect by the working class for traditional , i.e. middle-class , values ( religion , sobriety , hard work , etc . ) . |
| 22 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 23 | Survival means one of three choices : resignation , acceptance or fighting back . |
| 24 | " Educational technology " in practice means one of three things : The equipment and software of the audio-visual and computing industry which can be applied in education . |
| 25 | By section 118(1) , the interpretation section of the Act , it is provided that , where neither income tax nor capital gains tax nor corporation tax is specified , the word ‘ tax ’ means any of those taxes . |
| 26 | It means most of all for Bourdieu that the value of political products is largely determined outside of the political field . |
| 27 | But the annual over-indulgence means most of those nuts will still be in your bowl come the New Year . |
| 28 | I mean most of these end in question mark . |
| 29 | Because graphs particularly distance and time graphs I mean both of these are very likely to come up , you 'll get a translation of some sort , and you 'll get a distance time graph but the the the graphs or distance against time er are useful in other problems as well . |
| 30 | A single species tank can be taken to mean one of two things ; a tank in which is kept a number of specimens of the same species , a breeding pair , or a single specimen . |