Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I , I did what I could in the fifth issue , but you just run out of cash , that 's the trouble , but I mean the sixth issue is good . |
| 2 | I sweep the rod back as much as I can in the confined space and , although the fish is rather small at about 1¼lb , it kicks up quite a fuss and there is nothing I can do to stop it splashing . |
| 3 | To this end I have already started talking to as many people as I can in the local area , with some good response , but now wish to approach a wider audience — hence the appeal to you . |
| 4 | Under the Data Protection Act you are entitled , subject to certain limitations , to know what data about yourself is held on computer and , if you wish to exercise this right , you should in the first instance approach the Personnel Department . |
| 5 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 6 | Hence not all directions for a given link are permissible although we shall in the first instance assume that they are , that is , that a chain can pass through itself . |
| 7 | Er , but we will in the latter half of what I 'm doing , er , come on to the work organiser . |
| 8 | We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money . |
| 9 | Claims may not include mesne profits as they may in the High Court , but are confined to claims for non-payment of rent . |
| 10 | As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings . |
| 11 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 12 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 13 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 14 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 15 | Yet I repeat , as from April , as a result of the Government 's own legislation , they will in the overwhelming majority of these cases no longer possess the powers of constables and thus be able to follow through their investigations . |
| 16 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 17 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 18 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 19 | Orwell claimed the novel was an essentially protestant art form ; increasingly it appears to me that it must in the broadest sense be a Christian-humanist endeavour . |
| 20 | So there is still an uncomfortably strong possibility that the Yugoslav confrontation may end messily , perhaps even bloodily , just as it might in the Soviet Union , where Yugoslav events are followed with special interest . |
| 21 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |
| 22 | In these circumstances each polytechnic evolved as best it could in the various contexts within which it had to operate — for finance , primarily its local authority ; for permission to develop a course , the Regional Advisory Council ; for course approval , the CNAA and other validating bodies . |
| 23 | The question is whether the allegiance and the democratic commitment which goes with it could in the foreseeable future be transferred from the nation state to a federal superstate of Europe . |
| 24 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 25 | Corollaries of this belief are , that evil can not itself create , that it was not in itself created ( but sprang from a voluntary exercise of free will by Satan , Adam and Eve , to separate themselves from God ) , that it will in the long run be annulled or eliminated , as the Fall of Man was redressed by the Incarnation and Death of Christ . |
| 26 | And even if that does not happen at once , it will in the coming years , when there will be fewer workers and new-property owners to pay taxes , and more elderly in need of welfare services . |
| 27 | It will in the longer term be recognised as such and very much in ‘ the furtherance of all Scottish interests ’ . |
| 28 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |
| 29 | you have erm and he will also impart as much of his knowledge as he can in the two hours to you . |