Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When I heard about the business of measuring and weighing I realised that all the care and effort I had put into keeping my secret had probably been a complete waste of time . |
| 2 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 3 | With my colleague , the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) , in mind , I say that such a process will break up the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | How did I know that such-and-such a principle was right , especially when no one there shared it ? |
| 5 | I hope that such a proposal will form part of the next phase of ‘ Greenway ’ proposals . |
| 6 | I hope that such a project will be a centre for other arts , too . |
| 7 | And my guess would be , and it can only be a guess , that if there actually was disagreement between a county and the prospective recipient of a new settlement , then I suspect that that the Secretary of State would not want such proposals to proceed . |
| 8 | I appreciate that such a scheme would take some working out , but to me there seems a real possibility of its working . |
| 9 | I pressed that such an undertaking would be meaningless if they were free to take the Conservative whip in common with faulknerite unionists . |
| 10 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 11 | I believe that such a Home Rule settlement remains the most credible and practicable goal for Labour in Scotland to aim at . |
| 12 | Revolutions occur from time to time in nearly every field of science , and I believe that such a revolution is occurring in medicine — largely through the impact of complementary medicine . |
| 13 | I believe that such a sharing will lead to each school establishing its own targets : not narrow targets like those listed by well-intentioned politicians but much broader-based priorities . |
| 14 | My Lords , I believe that such an officer is very badly needed now in Your Lordships House |
| 15 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 16 | But then I doubt whether such a thing as a typical newspaper office exists . |
| 17 | I doubt if such a paragon exists . " |
| 18 | I I turn that that the point I made about the the the lack of inquiry because er er in effect we know very little about what went wrong with B C C I and particularly what went wrong with the audit er of B C C I because we have n't had an inquiry er into this country and to what went wrong in that instance . |
| 19 | I went and all the way |
| 20 | I agree that such a consequence would have followed had the parties been on equal terms . |
| 21 | I agree that such a consequence would have followed had the parties been on equal terms . |
| 22 | I agree that such a tax system based on the capital value of houses , on a national banding system , would be unfair unless we had taken care to provide for compressed rates of taxation . |
| 23 | ‘ I think that both the country people and the tourists share to some extent the illusion that the locals dematerialise when the visitors have gone , that all the countryside is a vast TV set to be switched off when no one is watching , ’ said Beuno . |
| 24 | Assuming that he meant ‘ Cecil ’ and not ‘ Michael ’ of that surname , I wonder whether such a step might have the reverse effect . |
| 25 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |
| 26 | When the hour does come I shall need a good , clear cause , every man I have and all the speed I can muster . |
| 27 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 28 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 29 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 30 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |