Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey thanks , Chief … but I reckon this could be a blatant attempt to influence a police officer in the execution of his duty . ’ |
| 3 | Miss Menzies suddenly stood up , looked him straight in the eyes and said , ‘ Do you know it 's a very serious offence to impersonate a police officer ? ’ |
| 4 | Designed by a German scientific team led by Rudolf Gantenbrink , the robot climbed at 45° up the 65 metre long passageway to find a portcullis type slab at the other end with large copper handles . |
| 5 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 6 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 7 | The first woman to place a lonely-hearts advertisement in a British newspaper was Helen Morrison , a spinster of Manchester . |
| 8 | Any attempt to define a futures contract is likely to be unsatisfactory in some respect . |
| 9 | The two Prime Ministers met at Kolodeje , east of Prague on Oct. 10 , and reached preliminary agreement to maintain a customs union , with provision for the duty-free exchange of goods between the republics , with effect from Oct. 28 , the 74th anniversary of the creation of Czechoslovakia . |