Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mrs Duffy is hoping to have the murder case involving her son moved to another area where nobody has heard of the name Lee Duffy and where she believes a fairer trial would be held . |
| 2 | The main distinction I think you will find when you tour round Greater York is is that the distinction is between areas of intensive agriculture where of course you have the w which is to the west and to the south of the city , where you in fact have the highest quality of agricultural land , and the areas to the north where you have the lower quality agricultural land and therefore you have greater retention of cover . |
| 3 | It is a measure of the fundamental instincts of Citrine and his colleagues that , where they had the greater power to centralise , it was centralisation , and not devolved responsibility , which was their watchword . |
| 4 | She felt too uptight to embark on cooking her chicken dish that night , so she organised a simpler meal of terrine , followed by an omelette and fruit . |
| 5 | ‘ So you get a better chance to aim . ’ |
| 6 | Happy on that one , so you get the higher earners , forty-five thousand and above , whatever 's over forty-five , you can take an extra third of that and add it to , what seventy-five per cent of forty-five is . |
| 7 | Please send your article early so you stand a better chance of it being published — earlier the better . |
| 8 | and then I was trying to come out and I started to pull out into a gap and Brian said oh know , do n't pull out I said oh okay , he said the thing is your fairly tight so your gon na have to come out slowly so you need a bigger gap than otherwise . |
| 9 | Although we have a clearer picture than we did of long-term changes in demography and household structure , little has been done to fill out the picture in terms of living experience . |
| 10 | The traffickers also demanded that they be placed in a special prison and not be forced to testify against themselves or their collaborators , although they dropped an earlier requirement that they be treated as a political organization similar to left-wing guerrillas who had negotiated with the government . |
| 11 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 12 | ‘ Some goods can only be bought with FEC , so they have a higher value to the Chinese who are desperate to get hold of them . |
| 13 | The new model joins the previously-announced 16-port model , although it has an earlier availability date : the company is aiming for late this quarter for the eight-port model , while the 16-port version is not expected until the third quarter . |
| 14 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 15 | In fact , the British inventor P. J. Packman took the idea a stage further ; he developed a cutter for V-shaped grooves , rather than the U-shaped grooves then considered normal , so he got a deeper groove at the same time . |
| 16 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 17 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 18 | I think if I had a bigger bust my guts would n't look so big . |
| 19 | Because if I 'm not reasonably careful , if I do have another drink , in fact if I stay a further minute even without another drink-then I shall probably suggest to you that we proceed — do n't forget that we do n't ‘ progress ’ in the police force , we always ‘ proceed ’ — to , er … ’ |
| 20 | So the very simple question is , if I wanted a higher allocation to units , who am I asking the question to , Sue is it yours . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he thought , ‘ if I live a better life , the picture will become less ugly . ’ |
| 22 | But … if I have no better plan I am not going to criticise what they have done . " |
| 23 | One was immense drive for power which I did n't fully understand until I had a better idea of the second quality . |
| 24 | " It 's better not to shoot smaller animals until you have the bigger prizes you seek . |
| 25 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 26 | The later seats will fit if you use the later mounts but you will have to modify the seatbelt mounts as they are fitted in the pillar of later vehicles . |
| 27 | It 's Beethoven 's Ode to Joy , the the last movement of Beethoven 's ninth symphony , erm , you 'd know the tune , you 'd recognise it , particularly if you had a better singer than me on as a accompaniment . |
| 28 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 29 | Would your problems be solved if you had a smaller house ? |
| 30 | You know probably if you got a younger person , he probably would have been after him , square up to him , and erm . |