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Targeting the pattern<jats:sc>that\u2019s adj<\/jats:sc>(as in<jats:italic>that\u2019s right<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>that\u2019s nice<\/jats:italic>or<jats:italic>that\u2019s okay<\/jats:italic>) as a case study, we use a tailor-made Python script to systematically retrieve grammatical and semantic information about all instances of this construction in BNC2014 as well as sociolinguistic information enabling us to study social and individual lexico-grammatical variation among speakers who have used this pattern. The dataset amounts to 4,394 tokens produced by 445 speakers using 159 adjective types in 931 conversations. Using detailed descriptive statistics and mixed-effects regression models, we show that while the choice of some adjectives is partly determined by social variables, situational and especially individual variation is rampant overall. 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