Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As worded I I think that criterion six is unrealistic . |
| 2 | One of the quantitative consequences of this which I mentioned last week and I , I think may have been misunderstood is what is called variance of reproductive success . |
| 3 | ‘ Is this what they call European hospitality ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 5 | Erm but there are a few what I call golden rules to avoid becoming one of these four hundred people every week who come into our advice centre . |
| 6 | The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven , five and four children , several under school age . |
| 7 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 8 | I know that one you made last time you were down . |
| 9 | I know that one you made last time you were down was a |
| 10 | That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn . |
| 11 | If they build traditional what they call traditional terrace type housing , I think the community in itself will er just adjust to that . |
| 12 | Tandem Computers Inc , Cupertino is moving its Asian headquarters to Singapore from California later this month , specialising in telecommunications , banking and finance ; it already has a joint software company , Twin-Soft Asia Pte Ltd , with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd which it formed last year , and it is planning to launch a screen-based smart telephone that can access host computers using a telephone handset , a small display , a programmable microprocessor and a modem , in Singapore next month . |
| 13 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 14 | And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’ |
| 15 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 16 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 17 | It was the only one I knew this morning like , so fifty miles an hour he said to me He said to me , he said to me turn left at the roundabout there was only one that was marked on the floor , only one an actual erm roundabout with concrete and I drove straight over it |
| 18 | And my son-in-law he was working with him , and when he had that accident , well it 's ridiculous what he done that day . |
| 19 | Same one you saw last year . |
| 20 | There was oak and that did n't have as much work as mahogany and then there was er what they call the I do n't know whether you 'll ever have remembered seeing it but there was a fashion for a while just bef in the thirties what they called limed oak . |
| 21 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 22 | ‘ Is that what they call British understatement ? ’ he asked drolly , as they glided out of countryside and into the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , and Fabia just had to laugh . |
| 23 | ‘ What Fran is trying to say , Mrs Lewis , is that what you witnessed last night was n't quite what it appeared to be . |
| 24 | ‘ Is that what you call efficient use of processing resources ? |
| 25 | ‘ Is that what you call revolutionary consciousness ? ’ |
| 26 | Where 's your other one you had two ducks when you , ah , there 's one down there look near Hazel 's feet . |
| 27 | This is the cheesy one I bought some beetroot the other day , they had some nice little ones , which I must cook , they were ever so cheap , I 've forgotten how cheap but you know they were really cheap |
| 28 | I had to , I was doing two what I call mid washes , this sort of colour |
| 29 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |