Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 32 | ‘ But the demand is coming from the young so we look at the educational side to cut that demand . ’ |
| 33 | Alright but in any double logged mode , right , the coefficients you estimate are elasticities , so we look at the incoming elasticity , we get a measure , or we get an estimate point six eight , right , that 's a positive as we would expect suggesting that er erm textiles are a normal good , right . |
| 34 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 35 | Once we move beyond the primary sensory receiving areas the situation gets even more tenuous . |
| 36 | Although they relate to the growing tendency to move computer applications from larger machines to smaller ones ( See ACCOUNTANCY , February , p 101 ) , reduction in the size of the boxes is not the most significant factor . |
| 37 | Although they come from the same family as the more familiar Corydoras , they differ in both body shape and breeding habit . |
| 38 | Both were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 39 | Both defendants were said to be of no fixed abode , although they originate from the Old Swan district of Liverpool . |
| 40 | In the public sector of the economy , Sellier ( 1978 ) has shown that the influence of French unions is particularly strong since the high concentration of workers within that sector reduces the costs of organisation , the bureaucratic tendencies of large undertakings encourage trade union membership , and the official role accorded by government to the unions gives them a greater authority than they possess in the private sector . |
| 41 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 42 | In addition there is a mass of evidence that a very high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies are physically capable of remaining longer than they do in the formal labour market . |
| 43 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 44 | According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates . |
| 45 | Let your children play with these ‘ toys ’ freely so they learn about the basic properties of water . |
| 46 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 47 | Now what if I support in the main the aims of the Act , there are one or two areas I think that some things are not a good idea . |
| 48 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 49 | Before you start on that do you mind if I turn off the flickering television screen ? |
| 50 | if I stay in the right place . |
| 51 | If I stay in the same place for too long I get stale . ’ |
| 52 | The theory is that if I stay among the faceless long enough , I become faceless myself . ’ |
| 53 | If I throw in the little un , Sid Watkins will be happy to give me twenty quid Yes , I reckon Sid will be glad to see our Ma in the morning . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 55 | So how about if I look at the six monthly saving , |
| 56 | ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate . |
| 57 | ‘ I think I need 350,000 points to guarantee selection , and I will pass that total if I finish in the top two tomorrow , ’ said Lane . |
| 58 | Any errors could ruin the fishing , for if I snag on the overhanging branches or the roots , the subsequent pulling to free the tackle , or to break it , will not go unnoticed by the chub . |
| 59 | I jump for joy … but until I hear from the Foreign Office or from Martin , I wo n't believe it . |
| 60 | You can provided you keep under the thirteen amp rating but if you go over the thirteen amp rating then you are asking for trouble . |