Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By this I mean that both the designer and colleagues may be too expert , too sophisticated , too used to jargon , too well-educated and able to verbalize .
2 I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark .
3 I suggest that both the strength and the weakness of Moore 's positive ethical views stem mainly from his method of isolation .
4 While P P G twelve provides for a cascade of planning policy , I suggest that only a purist would delay a resolution of the needs of Greater York , through the development plan process , in order to await regional planning guidance .
5 But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’
6 I appreciate that yesterday the funeral ceremonies were carried out but Masses were also sung for the souls of two other men , Brampton and Vechey , and I have news of them .
7 I believe that practically every question of statutory construction that comes before the courts will involve an argument that the case falls under one or more of these three heads .
8 The test of contempt requires a risk of serious prejudice and I believe that usually the protection of criminal proceedings against such risks should prevail even if this is difficult to reconcile with our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights .
9 I seem to use these up at a surprisingly high rate these days ( particularly the 8 pin type ) , but I suppose that practically every project is based on d.i.l. integrated circuits these days .
10 I doubt if either the pole or myself could take it nowadays . ’
11 But I think that secretly the vice-chancellor and the other grown-ups were delighted by this kind of behaviour , as it proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we were students and they were teachers .
12 I think that today the result can and should be achieved by the application of the law of negligence …
13 Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it .
14 A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one .
15 I think that perhaps the snake in alcohol was left too .
16 Well I think and probably the rest of the Labour group operate in a rather different way from the way that 's just been outlined .
17 Now those I think and quite a lot of other people do are probably the most awkward ones .
18 I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it .
19 you see and they 're asking for people who could ref who could , you know , give references to cos like put all these , all , down on these different things that you want like you know , say you want but then a lot of people just put down small business and management , something like that .
20 ‘ And you consider that only a psychiatrist 's opinion would be of any value ? ’
21 This is criminal when you consider that almost every woman has oral sex at some time in her life .
22 and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing
23 6.1 You warrant that neither the sale nor the use of the goods nor the performance of the work will infringe any British or foreign patent , trademark , registered design , or other industrial or intellectual property rights whether or not similar to any of the foregoing .
24 I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday .
25 Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody .
26 Narrow the aperture of the microscope and then we shall have as accurate a knowledge of the photon 's direction as we please and thus the uncertainty in the momentum transferred to the electron will be controlled .
27 We say that locally the surface is Euclidean and distances are given by the differential Pythagoras equation where dx , and dy are the coordinate separations of nearby points on the surface .
28 We accept that both the Unionist and Nationalist traditions are valid and legitimate ; that Northern Ireland should remain a part of the UK until the free consent of the majority of its people is given to change ; that the Republic of Ireland has a legitimate interest in the future of Northern Ireland ; and that a partnership in government which allows both communities to participate is the only practical way in which to make progress .
29 If we recognise that only the service trades are sufficiently labour-intensive to provide the jobs needed , what do we aim for ?
30 But now we see that even the absence of law is no guarantee against the possibility of retrospective regulation .
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