Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case I feel a deep conviction that I 'm not making a mistake . |
| 2 | I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them . |
| 3 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 4 | On deck I feel a perfect target for any sniping moron . |
| 5 | And of course I get a big boost when something like this happens , because words make plain sense , even though Tod always reads them backwards . |
| 6 | I 'm not erm , I 'm not going to be in a situation to record all my chat anyway , I do n't think , because of the erm , the amount of it , when I 'm running a course I do an awful lot of chatting during the day . |
| 7 | An opportunity I believe an ambitious person like yourself will find too good to resist . ’ |
| 8 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 9 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 10 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 11 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 12 | Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We made love , but life will carry on , and while we 're under the same roof I think a verbal truce is in order . ’ |
| 14 | After sticking the hook through a crust I make an experimental cast across the river , well away from the swim , choosing a dock leaf as my target on the far bank . |
| 15 | As Fairburn and Kay explain , ‘ [ i ] f I produce a poor product , then I will gradually lose market share , and my competitors will gradually gain it . |
| 16 | Did they ever say to you I do n't want a diffused light I want a direct light ? |
| 17 | We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters . |
| 18 | Mummy I want a tiny bit more please . |
| 19 | Mummy I want a big bit |
| 20 | Mummy I want a big bowl have a big bowl |
| 21 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 22 | It is important to distinguish clearly between the features of the paper based life cycle which were a product of the limitations of the media and can now be joyfully abandoned , and methods which have an ongoing role when re-interpreted into the electronic life cycle . |
| 23 | In essence the two approaches diverge around theories of the person , with Reform Islam stressing the autonomy of the individual and his direct access to God , as against popular Islam and South Asian Sufism which tolerate a wide range of ritual customs , accommodate to wordly hierarchies of ranking and power , and are based on notions of mediation with God by Saints possessing divine secret knowledge and intercessionary powers . |
| 24 | Process industries produce a number of items from a single raw material , as opposed to discrete manufacturers which produce a single product from multiple raw materials . |
| 25 | Equally as important in keeping a regular check on publishers ' output are those organizations which offer an advisory service for educational users . |
| 26 | Type B non-profit — non-profit organizations which obtain a significant amount of financial resources from sources other than the sale of goods and services . |
| 27 | One solution would be to redefine the Type A in terms of current financial resources and perhaps also to replace ‘ entirely or almost entirely ’ with ‘ a significant proportion ’ , so that the Type A non-profit organizations become : non-profit organizations which obtain a significant amount of their current financial resources from the sale of goods and services . |
| 28 | all the major conurbations have units which provide an intensive casework service to families referred by other statutory and voluntary social agencies . |
| 29 | In units which employ a multidisciplinary approach , each patient might be allocated one member of staff ( a ‘ primary therapist ’ ) who has the main responsibility for dealing with the patient 's problems . |
| 30 | All these churches have domes which cover a central area and are supported on pendentives . |