Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each labourer 's unit it comes to one hundred and fifty with the land . |
| 2 | After eight months ' work it has acquired a life of its own . |
| 3 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 4 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 5 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 6 | I du n no quite how erm er much er of other people 's conversation it 's picking up but it 's probably picking me up er |
| 7 | Historically , the minimum subscription Association 's affiliated organizations and clubs has been set that twice the personal member 's subscription and after a period of two years ' grace it 's the Council 's wish that this balance is re-established so that the relativity returns to that which existed prior to the increase in subscriptions that was proposed at the A G M in nineteen ninety one . |
| 8 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 9 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 10 | i implant and yeah that kind of thing and er whereas , you know , in this guy 's view it would erm involve the erosion of , of the whole culture of sign language |
| 11 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 12 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 13 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 14 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 15 | In one consultant 's report it is stated ‘ Brazil has no institutions that are capable of undertaking the task of achieving soil conservation and preventing land degradation . ’ |
| 16 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 17 | In two years ' time it 's planned it 'll be completely car-free . |
| 18 | In next year 's Budget it is to be hoped he will take a further opportunity to reduce the differentials between Scotch and wine . ’ |
| 19 | And I think that drug taking has always been here , it will probably always be here , but in most people 's life it 's a transient thing , it 's a phase perhaps erm as animals we like to change our mental state ? |
| 20 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 21 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 22 | Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem . |