Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I visited the local teacher 's centre where I discussed this self-evaluation project and other similar projects with the warden . |
| 2 | What is meant by ‘ the computational mechanisms involved in sensory perception in general ’ will be clarified in the next section , where I discuss some AI ideas bearing on the puzzles about the kingfisher 's perceptual competence that were listed above . |
| 3 | The race was only open to vehicles which ran on unorthodox fuels , or which had internal combustion engines modified for greater energy efficiency . |
| 4 | Rosalba tried to respond , turning to her friend and patting down a curl or two round her face ; then she adjusted the combs which held her friend 's hair behind her ears , where she wore small gold hoops . |
| 5 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 6 | The Grovel Industry , where you get paid danger money because it 's so insecure . |
| 7 | If you can afford private treatment , or you have medical insurance cover to pay for it , you may prefer to take on a full treatment programme with the specialist physiotherapist . |
| 8 | The subjects in one of the trials referred to were patients in whom pain control was inadequate or who had appreciable side effects , which is why the cerebrospinal fluid was accessed . |
| 9 | There are still schools which take registers separately , the boys and the girls separately , or who have pink library book cards for girls and blue library book cards for boys . |
| 10 | But some people do need to exercise constraint : diabetics , people with high blood pressure , those who are very overweight or who have high blood cholesterol , those who binge if a craving is indulged . |
| 11 | They are designed primarily for practitioners who are either currently working or who have previous work experience in the industry . |
| 12 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 13 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 14 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 15 | During his US stay , Menem , accompanied by Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo , also visited Houston , New York and Miami ( where he met Cuban exile leaders ) . |
| 16 | Kouchner visited Mogadishu port and Baidoa , in the south-west , where he saw French food aid arrive . |
| 17 | Mr Birt was headhunted as a freelance from London Weekend Television six years ago where he had similar tax arrangements with the commercial station . |
| 18 | And it was his successor , William de Turbe ( 1146–74 ) who , two generations later , had to extend the limits of the successful town over the marshland to the north , where he established another market place and built the church of St Nicholas beside it . |
| 19 | He drifted into junior football but then linked up again with McFall at Portadown — where he won two championship medals . |
| 20 | Although I had precise engineering plans I nevertheless measured and remeasured the space . |
| 21 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 22 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 23 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 24 | You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday . |
| 25 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 26 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 27 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 28 | ‘ But I was pleased that I showed some fighting spirit . ’ |
| 29 | The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work . |
| 30 | I work part-time at the station coffee shop at Parkeston Quay so I get cheap rail travel . ’ |