Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the average consumption of these can be harmful for us. for many of us , reducing our consumption or even stopping all of them for a while is likely to help us in a number of ways . |
| 2 | which in a way were pleased we have n't got to make the heart rending decision of him having his legs off , cos Denny told us , mum kept saying to him for three days , he would arch his back ooh , ooh , could n't move , and mum said yes he |
| 3 | Which in a way was true . |
| 4 | Which in a way was true — their enmity was a personal element within the events of the wider conflict . |
| 5 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |
| 6 | He replaced Gen. Jorge Moreira Rojas [ see p. 37851 ] , who had stated that " professional ethics " did not allow him to take orders from the new Defence Minister , Klinsky , who as a rear-admiral was subordinate to him . |
| 7 | This involves combined action by hospital providers , who have fulfilled their contracts with a quarter of the year remaining , and general practitioners , who as a consequence are unable to obtain hospital treatment for their patients , to put pressure on health authorities to increase the resources available to acute services . |
| 8 | Then they condemn themselves as well and until society can say that 's perfectly alright , that 's a good situation to be in , whoever it is you 're living with , and that you as a child are okay and are valued then the children themselves will be okay and I think the Sco , we lose some of the erm secondary deprivation and emotional deprivation that children in single parent families |
| 9 | What we as a family were unanimous about was that he adopted no pose of being the distinguished writer , and even gave the impression that he much preferred not to be treated as such . |
| 10 | Erm , the irony of the sort of split responsibility is that er one of the things that we have to obviously bear in mind with any future in erm extension of residents ' parking schemes is the cost , and er it 's interesting that the district council 's off-street er parking account erm for the area is , has got a reasonable surplus , and er well we as an authority 're responsible for , for off-street parking as well . |
| 11 | Not one of us begins life feeling angry or frustrated , no one as an infant is dissatisfied or lacks feelings of self worth . |
| 12 | Bleached hair , a diamond stud ear-ring and a reputation for being something of a hell-raiser were wonderful extras for the media to latch on to . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember exactly when in the sequence it first began to dawn on me that an evolved resemblance to something like an insect was possible . |
| 14 | Everyone in an organisation is interdependent : authority alone is insufficient to obtain good performance , and can only be effective in certain situations and with certain people . |
| 15 | The picture of him as a gorilla was necessary on the leaflet because the words make no overt mention of his race . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's what they used to say about women ’ is not a proof that saying it about a child is false . |
| 17 | However , the difficulties of thinking about it as a whole are considerable . |
| 18 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |