Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 2 | And we 'd start I 'd just turn with my right hand to join both ends of the rope and then we would be turning again . |
| 3 | Judith Searle 's elder son , Matthew , is now eighteen : ‘ It has been a source of real satisfaction that my elder boy has this month ( October , 1990 ) joined Wadham as a mathematician , so I can start all over again . ’ |
| 4 | My old man had this thing about all of us [ a family of ten ] growing up in this society and not getting into a black thing . |
| 5 | My messy house shows some character ! |
| 6 | My hon. Friend made certain representations about the proposal to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in the course of a discussion last month . |
| 7 | I am glad that my hon. Friend made that point ; he is right . |
| 8 | As always , my hon. Friend talks great sense , and I agree with everything that he has said . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend poses several questions on the subject . |
| 10 | Will my hon. Friend take this opportunity to pay tribute to the workers in the electricity industry who , despite foul weather and difficult circumstances , managed to restore supplies so swiftly ? |
| 11 | My hon. Friend had two criticisms of the way in which the programme was put into effect . |
| 12 | Now that it has been shown in Liverpool that there are powers to confiscate offending equipment — as there always have been in Scotland — may I ask my hon. Friend to draw those powers to the attention of local authorities — and , through the Home Office , the police — so that the public may be protected from this menace ? |
| 13 | My hon. Friend caused some agitation on the Government Front Bench when he quite fairly referred to the Government 's policy of denying information by diverting answers through the agencies . |
| 14 | Will my hon. Friend address that point ? |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend pay particular attention to the application of a company in my constituency which requires a small amount of insurance cover that could lead to tens of millions of pounds ' worth of business ? |
| 16 | My hon. Friend gave impressive evidence regarding the improvement in health care for his constituents . |
| 17 | On the point made by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , does my hon. Friend agree that funding both for sport and the arts could be far higher and much more in line with demand if we had a national lottery ? |
| 18 | Does my hon. Friend agree that Labour 's charter for sport is about more interference , more committees , more regional committees and , most of all , more costs ? |
| 19 | Does my hon. Friend agree that information on agricultural issues for school children is important ? |
| 20 | Has my hon. Friend considered consulting people such as members of the Secondary Heads Association to see whether all the heads of comprehensive schoools in my constituency would relish the idea of paying an extra 9 per cent . |
| 21 | If my hon. Friend has any evidence that other countries might not be implementing the regulations as carefully as we are , we shall certainly take action . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend gives impressive figures which underline the importance of a successful outcome to the GATT talks . |
| 23 | I have spent my entire holiday handing round cakes and business . |
| 24 | Mr Lawson responded pleasantly : ‘ I am glad that my honourable friend raised that issue because , although it is an absurdity , it is believed by many people other than my honourable friend , who understandably picks up things that he hears other people say . ’ |
| 25 | I have concluded that either a ) the database was saved only to a floppy disk and taken away by your student , or b ) it was a WORKS database and was irretrievably lost when my hard disk crashed last year . |
| 26 | Though I spent my outdoor time playing any game I could , from cricket , tennis , football or boxing at the local gym , all my indoor time was spent buried in books . |
| 27 | My multiple personality required multiple scripts , and from my study of graphology I tried to create individual scripts that conformed to the analyses of heavy down-strokes , ‘ pasty ’ loops and uncrossed ‘ ts ’ : I was especially interested in ‘ pasty ’ strokes , which are supposed to indicate a rich sexuality , and disconnected letters , indicative of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 28 | The head of the Branch is the Chief Inspector , and it was my good fortune to hold that position from January 1974 until August 1981 . |
| 29 | ‘ This telephone has rung four times in this house since it was installed in January , and the first call brought us news of the Glasgow Ribbon Society , the Fenian Dynamitards destroying the Tradeston gas-works in which my poor husband has substantial interests . |
| 30 | My medical eye noticed two things immediately : there were virtually no flies near the children playing on the beach ; and the dog lying down was no scrawny , starving mongrel . |