Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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1 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
2 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
3 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
4 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
5 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
6 | It 's not something that I can deal with in these orders er I 'm afraid that er there was a decision within the community which was then er made part of the nineteen seventy six E C direct elections act . |
7 | In fact I think in in those days er it 's mostly the local men that |
8 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
9 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
10 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
11 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |