Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thee are 1–4 pointed apical papillae flanked on each side by 4–5 pointed oral papillae ; there are 2 , sometimes more larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , distal to be oral papillae . |
| 2 | Some of them are reluctant to ask visiting relatives , who may already be doing shopping for them , to run extra errands , such as taking prescriptions to the chemist or clothes to the launderette or dry cleaners , changing their library books and collecting their pension ; so it is always as well to check to make sure that you are meeting these needs , or arranging for someone else to do so . |
| 3 | Q Could you please clear up a few points which I am sure confuse other readers as well as myself . |
| 4 | I am sad to see uncivilised attitudes gaining ground in the profession we love , and I would invite everyone concerned to fight against such trends . |
| 5 | I am pleased to report pre-tax profits up from £5,531,000 to £5,999,000 . |
| 6 | On the advice of the Meteorological Office , I further fine-tuned the system , but I am prepared to consider individual cases again , if necessary . |
| 7 | Will I be able to meet other childminders ? |
| 8 | I 'm sorry to disappoint orthodox Freudians , but I felt no penis envy , and did n't think myself to be maimed in any way . |
| 9 | When I looked back I realized it was because of a hurt from when I was younger-I had protruding teeth and was the only child in my school at the time to wear braces . |
| 10 | I was delighted to hear English voices reply . |
| 11 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 12 | Among Continental names I did not know , such as Waldman and Krempe , I was interested to see British ones , including those of Joseph Priestley , represented by his History of Electricity of 1767 ; and Erasmus Darwin , by The Botanic Garden , Phytologia , and The Temple of Nature . |
| 13 | I was interested to read recent letters expressing concern at the absence of small birds . |
| 14 | While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer . |
| 15 | During the meeting I was able to make new contacts with UK and EC institutions , but I concluded that of the major EC formal programmes , PHARE and TACIS are not relevant to us , but that the next call from PECO might have something marginal in it . |
| 16 | Next day , Sunday , walking through the town , I was amused to see hired buses ( no scheduled services ) and car loads of black clad churchgoers proving that some compromises have been made . |
| 17 | An overwhelming number of you are keen to attend formal reunions and so I will make it a priority to get them off the ground . |
| 18 | You should also note that when we talk about scale uses , this does not mean merely running up and down the scales like a machine ; scales are there to show you which notes to use , the idea being that you are supposed to make melodic phrases or lines from them . |
| 19 | If possible , know your colleagues ' views ; form your own opinions based on sound facts for which you are able to give convincing reasons in a straightforward manner . |
| 20 | If you are able to get organic foods , and can afford them , then try to use these as much as possible . |
| 21 | It 's simply that on even the sunniest days you are unlikely to meet other walkers in the sorts of numbers typical elsewhere . |
| 22 | ‘ You are unable to get good vegetables ? ’ |
| 23 | There is a way to make neutrinos decay without producing light — you can achieve almost anything in this sort of physics , as long as you are willing to do nasty things to pretty theories — but it involves conjuring up yet another new particle . |
| 24 | Er , I think that reflects the , a certain unrealism out there in the world , and that is the notion that you are likely to entrust major decisions about mega-millions er , of money , er , to a much broader arena for discussion . |
| 25 | If you 're unable to find suitable fixings and cabinet furniture at your local hardware shop , there is a firm in Lancashire called Woodfit which supplies all sorts of things by mail order , including some you 've probably never imagined existed . |
| 26 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 27 | Because when you do that then that encourages you to , oh yes , well we can , you know , that went quite well but we ought to have done that and that and then you immediately , you , you 're eager to do other things and people get used to splitting up and tackling things in a focused way . |
| 28 | As John Lennon sang ‘ Life is what happens to you while you 're busy making other plans ’ . |
| 29 | And he quoted John Lennon by saying : ‘ Life is what happens to you while you 're busy making other plans . ’ |
| 30 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |