Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the Summer term it 's common practice in most schools to invite the parents of the new intake of children to visit the school to explain the routines and organisation , to give them a chance to meet the teachers and also to provide an opportunity for them to share any concerns they might have . |
| 2 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 3 | that 's for the name , yeah so , so , some of them will be confused , but not enough for them to have any problems I should n't have thought . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of people feel shy about going into a Tax Office , so this is a good opportunity for them to get any help they need , ’ explained Peter Guy , the Inland Revenue 's Customer Service Manager in the province . |
| 5 | In as much , however , as the cultural forms thereby produced become the external environment through which emerge other groups whose interests are not identical , and indeed may be contrary , to their own , we are faced with the situation described in the discussion of building styles above , where the dominated group is forced to attempt to invest itself in the domain of culture represented by the built environment in terms of a set of objects whose initial meanings are antagonistic to its own interests . |
| 6 | In the context of them doing 8 performances we were happy to pay them £120,000 . |
| 7 | In short , if any of them reaches this standard it should be acceptable Community-wide |
| 8 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 9 | From here I went to the Asprey , Mallett of Bourdon House , and S J Phillips stands , all of which had many treasures I coveted . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 11 | Can either of you see any landmark you know ? ’ |
| 12 | When you watch Star Trek , as I 'm sure you all do , none of you watch serious television I 'm sure . |
| 13 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 14 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
| 15 | and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was |
| 16 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 17 | We have come to terms with the fact that most of us have subtle differences which determine the strengths and weaknesses of our make-up . |
| 18 | You just jump in half-cocked , and get the wrong idea of the argument then I was just about to say to you that is n't the better way of doing things , cos obviously neither of us knows that way it 's just a different way and it was just a a matter of opinion so I mean |
| 19 | We must use every opportunity to present our skills effectively in our expanded marketplace and convey to customers that GROVE PROJECTS can work with them to create cost-effective facilities which will improve efficiencies , lower costs and ad value . |
| 20 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 21 | The original PSSRU schemes used shadow budgets for the case management teams ( up to the value of two thirds of the cost of residential care ) , but also gave them an allocation of money with which to purchase those services which were not readily available and which , although small , would make all the difference to keeping the client at home . |
| 22 | ‘ The mate who was with him said one minute he was talking to Tony at the side of the road and the next he was flat on his back . |
| 23 | This means a reasonable length of time to try out the goods generally , not a reasonable length of time in which to discover any defects there might be in the goods , Bernstein v. Pamsons Motors ( Golders Green ) Ltd. ( 1986 Q.B. ) . |
| 24 | Erm we get complaints from you know good people who get pestered by them . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he drawled , ‘ I 'd probably be too surprised by coy looks from you to have any idea what they were leading up to . ’ |
| 26 | In the home however , they soon adapt to their owner 's timetable , often to the extent that deviations from it induce erratic behaviour which can develop into a full-blown eating disorder . |
| 27 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 28 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 29 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 30 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |