Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 2 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | The New York graffiti craze , which meant just spray-painting your name again and again , was the most basic , single-minded assertion that you exist in an indifferent world . |
| 4 | He then drifted gloomily away , noting that this could not be ‘ an open-ended matter that you do in an idealistic whim ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Has anybody ever told you that you look like an older version of Jacqueline Bisset ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's something that we regard as an interesting development . |
| 7 | An analogy might be the lip-reading that we do at an unconscious level . |
| 8 | Technological advances might mean that we live in an artificial environment with respect to time-cues , but it is a rhythmic environment nevertheless , and our possession of a body clock means that all the advantages that come from the integration of biological and environmental rhythms apply equally to ourselves . |
| 9 | What has been taken as kind of definition , which I 'll paraphrase I think for this purpose , is that it 's a condition that shows itself in children 's reading difficulty and erm that they are having this reading difficulty despite the fact that they have had reasonable , normal teaching , that their level of intelligence appears to be normal and that they come from an adequate social cultural background . |
| 10 | If the failure of the ‘ ideological forms ’ lies in the operation of an idealist epistemology , the specific instances of ideological forms ( religion , aesthetics , the law , politics , philosophy ) that Marx mentions , seem doomed only to the extent that they depend on an idealist epistemology . |
| 11 | What is most worrying about these two episodes is that they smack of an orchestrated campaign on the part of the English rugby powers-that-be to create added tension between nations , for which Brian Moore is singularly well-equipped to be the aggressive mouthpiece . |
| 12 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
| 13 | When he had first come to Egypt Garvin had insisted that he stay with an Arab family perfecting his Arabic . |
| 14 | And I march to an unseen drum that is the metronome of an infinite host and like Thoreau , I am lifted and inspired by a music that no one else hears . |
| 15 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 16 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
| 17 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 18 | You aim for a reasonable provision of jobs , bearing in mind the job requirement , er within that settlement , and you aim for an appropriate range of social , recreation , and education uses , erm er within the village , so that on the basis of our proposal , as we say in N Y five , you will expect to have a primary school . |
| 19 | You also have to take care if you get onto an older horse afterwards . |
| 20 | If you qualify as an English solicitor you can work outside the U.K. for government organisations , such as the United Nations in New York or the Commission of the European Community in Brussels . |
| 21 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 22 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 23 | If you come across an unfamiliar word or phrase , find its source . |
| 24 | If you work as an in-house solicitor , you will have responsibility for drafting and keeping up to date standard contract documents for use by your employer in the main business — from simple invoice terms and conditions of sale or purchase to those suitable for major projects and transactions and non-standard contracts for individual or complicated projects . |
| 25 | Buying privately means if you buy from an ordinary member of the public not a shop . |
| 26 | So if you plug in an old Strat it will probably sound more like a Strat should sound . |
| 27 | I suppose you have to be if you sleep with an erstwhile nun . |
| 28 | If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all . |
| 29 | If you start as an associate student , the courses you successfully complete can be counted towards a degree should you choose to transfer to the undergraduate programme . |
| 30 | If you are over 50 years of age , if your skills are not in demand or if you live in an economic blackspot , you may find that your chances of finding a suitable job elsewhere are poor . |