Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 2 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 3 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 4 | Oh god Oh no wonder you say there 's us like eating cockles I suppose as the French eating snails int it ? |
| 5 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 6 | A suitably pedagogic figure called Skuul puts the case for cause and effect which is speedily reduced to relativism by an opposing voice : ‘ You pursue essentials I ride with the random … |
| 7 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 8 | In many ways I sympathize with the general tenor of this complaint , as may quickly become apparent . |
| 9 | In section six of my submission on behalf of Residents I refer to the environmental impact of traffic flow changes on existing roads . |
| 10 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 11 | In addition to all the rationally established facts I formulate in the indicative mood , there is the imperative to respect them , expressed in injunctions of varying generality imposing varying degrees of obligation , ‘ You ought to know that ’ , ‘ You should have had more sense ’ , ‘ You had better check that ’ , ‘ You were wrong to overlook that ’ , and sometimes directly in the imperative mood , ‘ Face facts ’ ‘ Know thyself ’ , ‘ Think what you 're doing ’ . |