Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My work experience includes one year as an accounts clerk , and two years as a shop assistant in a women 's clothes shop . |
| 2 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 3 | On stage I still have humbuckers in everything , although for the next tour I hope to change my amp setup to accommodate single coil guitars as well . |
| 4 | As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister . |
| 5 | I am working part-time , but my maternity leave begins next month . |
| 6 | My observer bias forbids any attempt at interpreting Lees ' fig 1 . |
| 7 | My catalogue essay to end all catalogue essays . |
| 8 | This is the one time of year when I wish I did n't live in the depths of Devon , as my nearest indoor school is 1¾ hours away , and Ferdi Eilberg my dressage trainer lives 3½ miles away ! |
| 9 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 10 | Tadpole Technology plc , lost its chairman Bill Gilkes last week : George Grey , Tadpole chief executive officer and founder said a replacement will be named within 90 days . |
| 11 | Equipped for fast and comfortable cruising , her deck equipment includes 22 self tailing winches with electric push button primaries . |
| 12 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the extent to which university research addresses industrial needs . |
| 13 | Likewise it is sometimes difficult for adolescent boys who work hard at building an image of toughness within their peer group to drop that image for the sake of the drama . |
| 14 | Let us look at those towns that grew up in the midst of their own open fields , that entered the nineteenth century with their population rising at a phenomenal rate , but were wholly unable to expand their building area to meet this rise in numbers . |
| 15 | ‘ If a patient is old , say over 65 , their cholesterol level makes little difference to their life expectancy . |
| 16 | Her college library has interesting books , as well as the latest art magazines . |
| 17 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 18 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 19 | As noted in Chapter 3 , there is no inherent power for partners to rid themselves of an unwanted colleague short of seeking a dissolution unless their partnership agreement contains express provision . |
| 20 | The Wolverhampton tribunal unit that was described in Chapter 3 has several successful sales ventures : it contributes social security legal precedents to Lawtel ( Prestel 's legal database ) and its Adviser magazine enjoys wide circulation . |
| 21 | In the UK alone her fan club has 25,000 members , her debut single ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ has now reached number one in eighteen countries around the world . |
| 22 | IF you are still stuck for which college course to take this autumn , here are three on offer in America . |
| 23 | President Mitterrand of France and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany on April 26 announced an initiative for negotiations ( reportedly sponsored by Bush ) , involving Lithuania 's temporary suspension of its independence declaration to enable Soviet-Lithuanian talks to start . |
| 24 | Vertical markets comprise professional accounting — although the small accountancy practices to which the group sells have been hard-hit by recession , it has managed to maintain stable revenues by selling upgrades of existing accountancy software ranges ; retail — while Radius started selling to this sector only about two years ago , it ‘ performed above expectations ’ , having won a new £500,000 contract from Dixons Group Plc , a £400,000 contract from Southern Electric Plc and a £25,000 contract from Ing C Olivetti SpA ; the public sector — the company has built on its traditional strength in local government to move into health and central government ; fuel distribution — another new area of activity which Bland said is ‘ growing ’ , although he could provide no figures ; and finally , the printing industry — while Radius has in the past concentrated on big customers such as Bowater and Smurfitt , it has now released a ‘ stripped-down ’ version of its management software to attract smaller users . |
| 25 | So the company had supplied ear defenders , they wanted their work force to use those ear defenders erm but in fact there was very little use of them . |
| 26 | Office workers who on the first day possible in the early year had rushed out in their lunch hour to cover any patch of grass with bare legs and arms , floral patterns and jackets , as if some strange immediate growth had been brought out by the sun , to die back in the early afternoon , had by now got the habit of staying in the dark bowels of buildings when they could . |
| 27 | MCI Communications Corp 's annual report sheds a little more light on the company 's plans for alliances to deliver new services ( CI No 2,139 ) , saying that the company will use its high-speed digital telephone network as the base for multimedia services in alliance with other companies — ‘ With one intelligent , multimedia device — part telephone , part television and part computer — consumers will call up distant relatives and see them while they speak , ’ the annual report says , and the company is not elaborating further ; the report says ‘ a number of trends are emerging , including multimedia wireless communications and distributed processing , ’ and MCI plans to be a player in these trends ; it says the range of companies it is contacting regarding its consortium idea spans several industries under the broad definition of communications , but it is awaiting a response from the Federal Communications Commission to its proposal that consortia rather than individual companies be permitted to run Personal Communications Network before putting any discussions onto a formal basis . |
| 28 | The Taiwan Atomic Energy Council has denied a report in the Hongkong Standard that it is planning to co-operate with its mainland counterpart to dump nuclear waste off the coast of Guangdong province in southern China . |
| 29 | Does this mean that Santa Cruz has re-compiled its operating system to take full advantage of Pentium 's performance ? |
| 30 | Does this mean that SCO has re-compiled its operating system to take full advantage of Pentium 's performance ? |