Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [is] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Before turning on the water supply it 's wise to check all joints : little things like forgetting to roll the flush-pipe gasket over the horn are easily done , and two gallons of water can make an awful mess .
2 To ensure the widest scope for getting the best deal it is necessary to exclude those which can not supply on the terms required .
3 I think perhaps if I just add a point to that er although we have as four nations agreed on the revised requirement there , I believe it 's true to say that development has progressed to such an extent that probably we will have the original requirement in practice , even though we 've no longer specified it .
4 So I hope I 've not complicated that I I always find it 's helpful to say this about this speaker this because no other speaker no speaker is here with a .
5 ‘ Yes , well , if you feel it 's lucky to see all the things you held dear being handled and bought by strangers just to pay off your father 's debts , then I suppose you could say I 'm lucky . ’
6 However , I feel it is better to dominate all dogs equally and make them come to a submissive position in front of the owner , preferably the down position .
7 Following the News Focus ‘ Private worries ’ ( October 21 ) , we feel it is important to challenge some of the claims made by Tom Osborne regarding the care of critically ill patients within the private health-care sector .
8 However , in purchasing the hard- and soft-ware we feel it is important to seek more than just a word-processor , because in future , publicity will play a major role .
9 If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself
10 While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason .
11 Department or the County Treasurer 's Department is not considered to be relevant to the needs of erm , the County Council , the people of Lincolnshire , and I think it 's reasonable to ask that question , and to hope that erm future conservatives speakers in this meeting , on this paper will give a clear indication as to what will be the effects of a budget reduction .
12 I think it 's necessary to stress this since a number of representations have referred specifically to the constraints which the locational strategy embodied in policy I five on the ability to deliver the proposed structure plan on employment land allocation .
13 ‘ In a pervasive image culture , I think it 's better to bring more bodies on the scene because the more variety there is , the more potential liberation there is . ’
14 ‘ I think it 's essential to have some kind of interaction , ’ he told me .
15 ‘ I think it 's essential to have some kind of interaction , ’ he told me .
16 So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science .
17 The reason for this seemingly moral rant is because , presently , some curators of modern rock think it 's hip to scoff all the alcohol and drugs they can ingest and behave like beasts .
18 I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway .
19 I think it 's difficult to say that , but erm we feel that the British protection was very important for the erm sovereignty , for maintaining the external sovereignty of Kuwait , but our internal affairs has always been within the Kuwaiti community .
20 However I think it 's important to stress that right from the early days of the conflict we had determined not to be involved in providing large scale emergency relief .
21 But you know , I think it 's important to feel that pain .
22 I think it 's sneaky having that on
23 I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in .
24 I think it 's silly to say that .
25 ‘ I think it is absurd to remove that beautiful countryside when we are at our wits end over what to do with deep-mined coal . ’
26 As I have said repeatedly , there remain a number of people for whom we think it is right to do more , and we have been doing more through the income support premiums .
27 I think it is right to refresh This is the job of the preacher really is n't it ?
28 I know that Making Belfast Work has shifted the goal posts on a number of things and jobs have been recycled from A to B. I think it is important to highlight those , but I do n't think we should accept small-scale efforts as a solution .
29 But I mean I think it is important to establish that , that this is what he 's saying .
30 Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures .
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