Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While P P G twelve provides for a cascade of planning policy , I suggest that only a purist would delay a resolution of the needs of Greater York , through the development plan process , in order to await regional planning guidance . |
| 2 | Before the war began , listening to reminiscences of those who had experienced the last war and sensing their dread , I imagined that once a war had started , no one would ever be happy again . |
| 3 | But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’ |
| 4 | No , I thought that perhaps a stroll down Unter den Linden — such memories for me there — and then I have another idea . |
| 5 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 6 | A married 32-year-old store manager says : ‘ If I chanced upon an encounter , I think that maybe a couple of years ago , I would n't have worn one . |
| 7 | Now those I think and quite a lot of other people do are probably the most awkward ones . |
| 8 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 9 | you see and they 're asking for people who could ref who could , you know , give references to cos like put all these , all , down on these different things that you want like you know , say you want but then a lot of people just put down small business and management , something like that . |
| 10 | ‘ And you consider that only a psychiatrist 's opinion would be of any value ? ’ |
| 11 | She implied that only a fool could allow what was known as ‘ love ’ to enter into consideration in the matter . |
| 12 | Her wings might be old and her talons blunt but strangely her illness had sharpened her mind even more and she knew that somehow a chance would come . |
| 13 | She gave that only a moment 's thought . |
| 14 | Tractors are used for the twelve months you see but not a combine . |
| 15 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 16 | But she knows that only a miracle can make her six-month-old son beam back . |
| 17 | We observed that sometimes a sentiment attributed to a powerful senior member of the county bureaucracy was accepted as sufficient grounds for considering a school more sympathetically ( or more critically ) than would otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 19 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 20 | The key to freeing the body to regain its lost dignity lies in inhibiting the unconscious habit of muscle tension ; only then may we perform actions in such a way that they become as much a joy to carry out as they are to watch . |
| 21 | The Council suggested the need for independent ‘ unified ’ research to ascertain the size and scope of the heroin problem , as they feared that otherwise a number of ‘ in-house ’ research papers would be produced which would lack coordination and the necessary overview . |
| 22 | She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled . |
| 23 | But maybe he thinks Hollywood is less the big break he needs and more a kind of career prat fall . |
| 24 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 25 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 27 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |
| 28 | It seemed that wherever a wall or something similar could be built , one had appeared . |
| 29 | He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed . |
| 30 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |