Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A lot of you 'd be surprised how gullible a lot of people are and frankly a lot of shopping problems do turn out to be the shopper 's own fault . |
2 | Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ? |
3 | He could be but not the sort of merchant you 're thinking of there were lots of merchants in those days those merchants who build up places like they were Greek merchants , in fact they were called merchant venturers were n't they ? |
4 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
5 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
6 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
7 | The most likely interpretation of 16 is that not every part of the car underwent washing and polishing , but the exterior surface only . |
8 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
9 | One politically unfortunate aspect of the problem is that often the generator of the pollution is not the country suffering it . |
10 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
11 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
12 | My own view is that perhaps the concept of normality is inappropriate here , since doubtless much of the hostility and prejudice which exists towards homosexuality is a product of this notion . |
13 | But what makes me angry is that only a couple of these companies have bothered to alter their ads accordingly . |
14 | One problem , however , is that only a subset of all texts do in fact have what might loosely be called a story structure . |
15 | Now one can say well what are we aiming for in terms of the sexual harassment free environment , and I think that what one would be aiming for is if not the atmosphere of a girls ' convent school one 's certainly aiming at an environment where women can work and study and interact without the sense of being constantly on display as sexual objects , and , you know , to that extent I do n't know if it is the case that a large number of the respondents are saying , you know , ‘ I have come from an environment when I have n't had to deal with this before , and I do n't expect to have to deal with it ’ then we should certainly sit up and take notice of that . |
16 | This is because quite a lot of them are English and ca n't see the difference between Knoydart and Chipping Sudbury . |
17 | Environmental liabilities are notoriously difficult to foresee and quantify , and there is as yet no experience under the Act to draw on . |
18 | There is as yet no word on who will play the part of Toole 's hero , the bloated medievalist Ignatius J Reilley , though earlier suggestions for the part have included the late Divine ( Waters 's idea ) and the late John Belushi ( the studio 's idea ) . |
19 | There is as yet no way of explaining how objects are constructed out of events ; even less how the contrast between objects and events — one of the most pervasive features of everyday experience — is perceived . |
20 | Erm it 's quite important from the next thing that he talks about is er ex abolishing exorbitant levies , obviously he says as the country is not yet unified and the authority of the imperialist and the warlords have not been overthrown there is as yet no way of removing the heavy burden of government taxes and levies on the peasants . |
21 | Fishing was one of the major activities for Minoans living on the coast , but there is as yet no evidence for the way in which they organized their fishing . |
22 | Therefore , they are probably not eddies , but though there are several non-eddy models there is as yet no consensus on their nature . |
23 | iv Positive segregation — separate unit There is as yet no equivalent to Williamwood and the other Church of Scotland homes for the dementing elderly within the Part IV system , though , for example , Lothian Region and Health Board are planning to provide a jointly funded unit of this type . |
24 | There is as yet no vaccine against HIV infection and no cure for AIDS . |
25 | There is as yet no vaccine against HIV infection and no cure for AIDS . |
26 | As an indication of how far off implementation of a pan-European standard is , it should be noted that there is as yet no agreement on surface characteristics , dimensions , or permeability . |
27 | On a computer such as the BBC , for which there is as yet no version of the Light Rifle , the provision of a lightpen facility within the video chip would make the task of the software much simpler . |
28 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
29 | At the same time , to disbelieve is as much an act of faith , as much an unsubstantiated assumption , as belief . |
30 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |