Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are adequate championship courses in Britain and many of them are in the top hundred in the world . |
| 2 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 3 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 4 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 5 | Aha , I 'm over the hundred thousand I mean . |
| 6 | I 'm on the bloody black one ! |
| 7 | Savvy : I 'm from the Black Lesbian and Gay Centre project in London and our members include lesbians of First Nation and Third World descent , both people who 've grown up in this country and people who have n't , so we have a very diverse membership . |
| 8 | So I 'm not limited because I 'm by the lowest common denominator of other gateway approaches . |
| 9 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 10 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 11 | well my birthdays on the twenty sixth twenty seven , last year I was on the twenty six , I was twenty six |
| 12 | My Lord Mayor , my Lord Mayor , I started by saying how angry and dismayed I was on the twenty fourth of July . |
| 13 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 14 | I was at the local high school . |
| 15 | I was in the lower sixth , taking Maths , English General , and Biology , so I dropped the Biology and took up English with a tutor . |
| 16 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 17 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the British amateur team for three years — which Pottz never was . |
| 19 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 20 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 21 | I was in the same Mental and Moral Science class as him and I ca n't say I noticed . |
| 22 | Provision is to be made against specific debts which are beyond the normal due date for payment to the extent that the directors recognise the possibility of irrecoverability . |
| 23 | There may be some districts that have er areas of countryside which are outside the non- designated areas which they regard as particularly important as erm the gentleman from Selby has said , er and the we have suggested that er there might be a criteria in the policy that allows the quality of the countryside affected by development to be a consideration . |
| 24 | The advice to plunge into the specific problem , on the model of counsel 's opinion , applies even where the problem is divided into several parts , all of which are on the same general department of law . |
| 25 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 26 | About half a million Americans live in some 176000 adobe houses , 97 per cent of which are in the four contiguous states of New Mexico , Arizona , Texas and California . |
| 27 | The first " strand " of the discussions , which were between the four constitutional parties in Northern Ireland ( thus excluding Sinn Féin , the political wing of the Irish Republican Army ) , covered proposals for devolution in Northern Ireland and had not made concrete progress . |
| 28 | Cargoes taken to and from the East were carried in specially built ships , which were among the largest contemporary merchantmen , the East Indiamen , and the officers ' places in these ships were an additional source of private patronage for those politicians who enjoyed influence with the owners of the ships , for it was the owners , not the Company , who appointed the commander and mates of East Indiamen . |
| 29 | And we will be playing from the tee which is at the front left hand corner . |
| 30 | The house is built of rock-faced sandstone which is of the deepest pink , peculiar to this area , and its roofs are of patterned slate . |