Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Can i do you want figures on commodities I think quite a lot of us are aware that coffee prices have gone down in the last ten years . |
2 | Despite my many and varied duties I have quite a lot of free time and this is where the ritual sets in . |
3 | Up to this point I have only an airline with mild aeration in the tank . |
4 | So at the SLP 's next annual conference I put forward a resolution that talks be opened with them with a view to supporting each other in seats where one or the other of us stood a chance of winning ; and to this end arranged a meeting between Jo Grimond and the SNP leader , Billy Wolfe . |
5 | At the next Scottish Liberal Party Council meeting I put forward a motion that Home Rule should be the principal aim and object of our policy and that in Scottish domestic matters all other issues should be considered in relation to it . |
6 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |
7 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
8 | Just very briefly Mel I suspect perhaps a lot of women would stand if conditions in parliament were more |
9 | But in the grey eyes of this female I read only a kind of concealed hostility . |
10 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
11 | As his neighbour I see quite a lot of him , as his colleague I hardly ever see him . |
12 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |