Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 2 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 3 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 4 | Or who know about a different God to mine . |
| 5 | Well , can everyone take on board the idea now , if there are new documents being prepared or we get to a major re-issue . |
| 6 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 7 | Metasedimentary rocks are common in south Harris where they occur on a large scale in well-defined belts extending for considerable distances ; up to 15 km in places . |
| 8 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 9 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 10 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 11 | I should make it clear at the outset that I act as a parliamentary consultant to the Professional Association of Teachers and that much of what I shall say tonight will be based on the practical experience of PAT members . |
| 12 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 14 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 20 | Sergei draws black , so I open with a dull pawn to king four , which he mimics , as he does my next three moves . |
| 21 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |
| 22 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 23 | A small orchestra was playing ‘ Lights of Moscow ’ and the waiters were clattering metal dishes and semaphoring with table napkins , and there was the air of subdued hysteria that you get in a big theatre when the orchestra is tuning up . |
| 24 | Also , primary schools are more adaptable erm they have n't got the constraints ; they have n't got the syllabuses to get through ; they have n't got exams at the end of the year ; they have n't got to the sort of subject departmentalization that you get in a secondary school . |
| 25 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 26 | It may be an idea to check out any varieties that you fancy in a reputable book — some are hard to grow and need lots of light ; other plants are still being sold that are really bog plants and should not be grown submerged . |
| 27 | When using your hands , feet and knees to attack your opponent , make sure that you start from a balanced position . |
| 28 | I would suggest that you build in a few nice easy open questions at the beginning of the session . |
| 29 | He also said that you attack like a well-trained guard dog . |
| 30 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |