Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [unc] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the virtues of parental investment er theory I would say is that er it 's particularly sensitive to female interests in , in in sexuality and nobody who knows me or has read er my works would , could possibly suspect me here of fashionable feminist prejudices er so I do n't say this because I think this is what people like to hear , but because I happen to think it 's true , I 'm afraid I 'm one of these old-fashioned and you may think stupid people who believe that you should er say things cos you think they 're true , not because you think er it 's what you think want w want to hear or if you say it , you 'll be accused of sexual harassment by a lecturer as I was last year . |
| 2 | However , males are sexual opportunists and if they come across another male 's female they will try to mate with her . |
| 3 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 4 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 5 | In a few months ' time I will take my G.C.S.E. ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) . |
| 6 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 7 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 8 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 9 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 10 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 11 | Then in a few weeks ' time it will have been outstripped by the very events which it is shaping . |
| 12 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |
| 13 | If you follow this day 's eating you will get through only 2,778 calories . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to think sometimes that if I did n't have a proper night 's sleep I 'd never be able to work again . |
| 15 | Add to Minder and Van der Valk the likes of Dad 's Army and Edge of Darkness and it is clear BSkyB 's Sky One will have some rethinking to do . |
| 16 | In this month 's Surgery we shall be describing a simple method of measuring unknown capacitors . |
| 17 | In this month 's competition you could win a prize patio worth £3,000 , designed and built by a Chelsea medal-winner |
| 18 | In this month 's article we will concentrate on some examples where the double stops are all derived from chords . |
| 19 | In this month 's article I will be discussing this and in passing we can look at the wider aspects of how techniques and paddle strokes are developed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | and I says , Good afternoon could I speak to the person that does advertising etcetera , and I get through to that particular person , and I said , How would you like to save money by us printing all your portfolios free of charge high quality er portfolios it would n't cost you a penny . |
| 22 | If she dreamed of him again it would be this man 's face she would see . |
| 23 | But she was not intimidated by the old man 's manner which could sometimes be childishly cajoling , sometimes violent as it was today . |
| 24 | Erm in order to meet a commitment which is the same as this year commitment then last here increasing last year because this year 's commitment we will not reach this year therefore , we 'll be into deficit ! |
| 25 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 28 | On the licensing of overseas editions : A reasonable royalty to be negotiated in line with standard publishers ' rates which will be payable on the Publisher 's net receipts , but the Publisher shall be entitled to deduct from its net receipts any direct or first costs |
| 29 | So the heating addition that you , that you , that you erm been talking about , that 's the extra heating m money you can get if you can prove that y that your erm |
| 30 | This sexism was traced in the stereotyping of women ( the madonna/whore dichotomy of classic Hollywood is a well-known example ) , and critics implicitly or explicitly called for an authentic women 's cinema which would portray real women as they really are . |