Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this happens to me after spending five months in Brazil — in Rio , Salvador , f'chrissake . |
| 2 | This seems to me like trying to bake a cake with half the ingredients missing — and then not warning the consumer why it might taste funny . |
| 3 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 4 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 5 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 6 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
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| 8 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 9 | ‘ Service Quality Development are happy to work with them in determining the service needs of the branch network and to encourage feedback through regular service surveys . ’ |
| 10 | They publish useful leaflets and information , and will be happy to talk to you about going back to work . |
| 11 | If you do n't already bank with NatWest , take your completed form along to any of our branches , where our staff will be happy to talk to you about opening an account and discuss your loan application . |
| 12 | A shared Protestant Christianity , combined with the legend of the persecuted Puritans seeking refuge in the new world to worship freely ( and pari passu to prevent those disagreeing with them from worshipping at all ) and based on the Authorized Version of the Bible , Shakespeare , Bunyan and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs , transcended political separation . |
| 13 | The reputation of the University of Edinburgh in Science and Engineering is such that industry is keen to collaborate with us in teaching as well as research . |
| 14 | Such a treaty would help reassure the Government of India that , within what is possible under the laws of the United Kingdom , we are anxious to co-operate with them in dealing with terrorism . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |