Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 2 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 3 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 4 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 5 | Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ . |
| 6 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 7 | It is to these questions that we turn in the next section . |
| 8 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 9 | The same is equally true for managers as they wrestle with the new demands of innovations in global competition that we describe in the next chapter . |
| 10 | It is this that we examine in the next section . |
| 11 | One of the contexts in which we are exercising ministry is that we have for the last fifty years well I have n't personally ! |
| 12 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 13 | Before that we consider in the next chapter some of the criticisms of the model and of the major results we have derived from it . |
| 14 | We know , too , that we exist in the fourth dimension , time , because we live for a certain number of years ; besides , the fact that we can move in three dimensions implies our existence in the fourth , because movement requires time . |
| 15 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 16 | The dates on the letters are quite clear , but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused — by perhaps a month . |
| 17 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 18 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
| 19 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 20 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 21 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , Bill Black and I quit in the fifth year , just before Elvis went into the Army . |
| 23 | Well , I think it is high time that we gave an award for valour in professional conduct , and I nominate as the first recipient , Keith Holdsworth of Bournemouth , Employed by the New Forest District Council , Keith Holdsworth risked his career , his livelihood and his life savings in the defence of his professional integrity , when it would have been so easy to take an easier route . |
| 24 | At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time . |
| 25 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 26 | And I suppose over the last twelve month we must have had as many as a dozen of such inquiries wanted their stamp franked . |
| 27 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 28 | Erm what would happen if I drive at a tenth of the speed ? |
| 29 | If I drive at a tenth of the speed , is it gon na take me longer or is it gon na take me is it gon na be quicker ? |
| 30 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |