Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could he just make sure though that in his plans by defining community care and by by that I mean social care as opposed to health care , in a certain way . |
| 2 | For example , among those carers living with a dementia sufferer , there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much , because they went out to work , or because they themselves were frail ; and at the other extreme were people who ‘ did everything ’ for a sufferer , and rarely left the house without him or her . |
| 3 | No doubt there will be some who dismiss such utterances as hypocritical , asking how such views can be reconciled with the way Mr Chatrier , as President of the French Tennis Federation , worked so hard to provide Paris , in what was already a crowded autumn calendar , with what at the time was the richest official indoor tournament , other than The Masters , in terms of prize money . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |
| 5 | The seven year old who shows outstanding promise when playing the violin , the eight year old who is fascinated with negative numbers , the four year old who can read fluently , the eleven year old who can design computer programmes … must have these gifts cherished , not have them dismissed or confined . |
| 6 | I have an aversion to noisy cameras , and this one rings several decibels before it 's done with selecting and focusing the lens , and winding on the film . |
| 7 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 8 | He seemed pleased when I told him how much I appreciated such poems as ‘ Cool Tombs ’ , ‘ The Hangman ’ , ‘ Kalamazoo ’ , ‘ Chicago — Hog Butcher ’ , and his later volume ‘ Good Morning , America ’ . |
| 9 | In addition , Global itself included such names as Golden Circle and Overland Holidays , as well as its own name . |
| 10 | We think it 's sad they brought this case after the police declined to prosecute , and based it on evidence provided by an anti-hunt political pressure group |
| 11 | She got this pink wool like angora twenty five pence a ball , so she started that , then she come on er , no Tuesday , with that she bought some needles cos if she 'd of had some more needles I could of done this one for er , now she 's got the back and er sleeve done I think , half a sleeve done I think |
| 12 | There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven . |
| 13 | I 'm glad I bought those tights when I did . |
| 14 | But in 1984 he suffered further humiliation when he was fined £100 for an act of gross indecency with a lorry driver in a public lavatory in Reading . |
| 15 | Er we put in N Y eleven which is our attempt er to identify first in a summary page , er and then in a more voluminous paper , with appendices , where the differences lie and the reasons that er that we pursue one course as opposed to another . |
| 16 | ‘ I always make sure I have several fittings before I 'm satisfied with my boots , that way I get to talk to Hari . |
| 17 | It 's not a bad idea to make sure you change larger notes before you return from your holiday since — depending on where you 've been — you may lose out by as much as half a per cent on an exchange rate . |
| 18 | An occupational therapist makes sure she has such things as a walking frame , special lavatory seat and correctly shaped chair , and a district nurse visits each day . |
| 19 | I am sure she has more cards than anyone else on her ward . |
| 20 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 21 | I am sure he has other purposes as well , it 's basically about a marriage breaking down |
| 22 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 23 | Alternatively , for those who regard this definition as too restrictive — particularly in its implicit overtones of stability , regularity and mutual accommodation between the parties — the central core of the subject is the ‘ study of the process of control over work relations ’ ( Hyman , 1975 , p. 12 ) . |
| 24 | The editor of a volume that contained 10 studies on the effects of infant and child mortality on fertility , summarized the findings in the following way : " The picture is not attractive for those who look to mortality reduction as a means of reducing fertility through familial effects , let alone for those who advocate such measures as a means to reduce growth rates . " |
| 25 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 26 | In an address to a congregation at a Sikh temple on Jan. 10 , the Prime Minister pledged strong action against those who took innocent lives whether they were terrorists or security force personnel . |
| 27 | The remaining ten might be useful " when there was no preacher in their own or neighbouring societies provided they would take no step without the advice of those who had more experience than themselves " . |
| 28 | One might expect that those who report intense imagery when awake would also report more hypnagogic experiences . |
| 29 | Clearly there are vast differences in this respect between married and unmarried women , mothers and non-mothers and those who do paid work as well as housework . |
| 30 | There were no ski-lifts so those who wanted higher slopes than the nurseries rose early and carrying all their gear — wire for repairs , spare sealskin gloves , sweaters and food — in a rucksack , climbed for three or four hours and then skied down , reaching the village by twilight , just in time to change for après-ski activities . |