Example sentences of "[be] a erm " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know they 're a erm placements agency basically . |
| 2 | I think this is not just a problem in Kent , I think that there has been a erm an undue er move in this direction nationally , er for what ever reasons public policy was very much about keeping people out of the courts , er I suspect that this is er er a policy which is of doubtful philosophical underpinning . |
| 3 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 4 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 5 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 6 | Or write it down and put little dots and count up the dots or something it 's a erm a lot of the Who tells you not to count on your fingers ? |
| 7 | I mean for the first time there 's a erm a sort of Asian wholesale supermarket . |
| 8 | No it 's not no it 's a erm Vauxhall Astra . |
| 9 | There 's a erm if there 's a need for 'em to clean this Saturday , say they need to clean round that sedge |
| 10 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 11 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 12 | And it 's a erm automatic like machine gun see and erm he 's got this magazine . |
| 13 | It 's a erm it was let's see what we can do to these nasty Labour controlled authorities and see how we can break down their erm their control of education and immediately they introduce it then suddenly the things start happening and they have second thoughts about it , and I 'm sure as night follows day that they 're going to have second thoughts about this when it actually occurs . |
| 14 | We 've got a group of journalists , twelve journalists , from Dubai in Bath today and erm some , a wave of journalists coming in from Saudi a little later in the month , so everything 's happening and there 's a erm tremendous amount of activity going on to restimulate the market . |
| 15 | I think Derek says he 's sa , it 's a , it 's a erm tt , temporary thing . |
| 16 | If I could just introduce for you , this is Emma who is a erm experienced archaeologist who 's with us on a three-month placement , and she will take people through this . |
| 17 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 18 | well I am convinced by Andrew 's explanation erm I would like to say in terms of when we look at the staff costs against budget , and we came in at only eleven thousand pounds less , er I think that is a erm that we , we , we can congratulate our business manager , on the good control that 's been exercised over the past year . |
| 19 | Well the feeling is a erm a great lack of understanding of what it is to actually live erm in poverty . |
| 20 | Er now you can make er you can make disposals in your lifetime obviously , you can make small gifts , you can make disposals up to three thousand pounds a year , which is your annual , your exemption if you like , and then anything over that is liable to the seven year rule , if you die within seven years of making the transfer , then there is a , there is a erm declining debt , er tax-wise . |
| 21 | I think erm there is a erm a size issue that enters into that particular consideration , erm clearly erm if you build a small new settlement very close to an existing large settlement , then the prospects for that being reasonably self contained are much reduced to that of a larger new settlement in the same location , and I would agree that the further in in general the further you move away from an existing centre then the likelihood is that that settlement will become more self contained . |
| 22 | Essentially because there is a erm , a production lag , or a growing season that we , farmers will have to base their production decisions alright , on previous prices . |
| 23 | Erm , item fourteen is a erm selective list of civil engineers for contracts . |
| 24 | Erm so I think Jane 's is a erm a spiritual journey with a psychological basis . |
| 25 | Secondly , the World Church erm is your agenda in the sense that you might be interested to know there is a erm a video now available , er which introduces the work of CWM for the churches . |
| 26 | It also puts money into the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association which is wholly involved and has been for the last two years in trying to get large scale erm strategic inward investment into the county , and erm it is a erm awkwardness I think that it 's best to be open about that the planning policy of the county is out of tune with the day factor activities of the economic development side of the of the county council . |
| 27 | Now , obviously if it is a erm an old vehicle then obviously the cover is restricted , but normally if it 's below five years or sixty thousand they can obtain up to a thousand pound parts and labour . |
| 28 | And then of course there was a erm also the scrubbing board , which was a corrugated board which you used to rub the clothes on like that . |
| 29 | Another thing we used to do regularly as well we boys er there was a erm a yeast merchant in erm er Road , well I say merchant it ti it was his house , and he had a garage at the side of it and he used to sell yeast . |
| 30 | Er there was there was a erm a stud that was called a . |