Example sentences of "'s [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 2 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 3 | It 's it 's easier to say for some reason or other and yet |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I know it 's wrong to believe in such things , but Lilith could n't have known about seven , could she ? ’ |
| 5 | On this page we just talk about Dinghy Sailing , but this is a very flexible centre , where it 's easy to mix in some windsurfing — see page 27 . |
| 6 | Yes , I wanted to make a point on the disciplinary side , which is as senior proctor the side of things I find myself thinking most about , and this is going back to the question of policing and whether it 's appropriate to talk in those terms . |
| 7 | It 's dangerous to stay in this town . |
| 8 | I mean it 's okay to come to this studio and , in Edinburgh and walk up a busy street and see people going into pubs and being drunk ! |
| 9 | and if there 's gon na be a fire it 's likely to happen in that fish and chip shop . |
| 10 | Well , it 's supposed to adapt to all widths and it 's rubbish |
| 11 | It 's hard to say at this point how many are now in prison as some are scattered and some gone underground . |
| 12 | We may even feel , as certainly I do , that some of the later cantos are of such a nature that it 's hard to conceive in any age of a way of encountering them other than the way we 're here embarked upon . |
| 13 | That 's because you , you want to , everyone does , you want to think in terms of conductances , so it 's hard to get over this problem , so do n't get over it . |
| 14 | We 've er oh it 's , it 's all to do with this sort of special thing that we found . |
| 15 | To help him pass a large , firm stool , make sure he 's able to push with both feet : put a small step in front of the loo if his feet do n't touch the floor . |
| 16 | It 's important to keep to this organisation — it will help you give change more quickly , and you are less likely to make mistakes ( eg giving a customer 10p instead of 50p ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Now it 's unlikely to go through this week , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's difficult to go on that sort of holiday now we 've got Emily and we tend to stick to Europe , ’ says Mary Jane . |
| 19 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 20 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 21 | He 's had his share of bad experiences in the air but ‘ it 's a kind of drug ’ and like any drug , it 's expensive to do with any regularity . |
| 22 | It 's easiest to stay on this path rather than taking the more obvious route up the side of the burn . |
| 23 | But it 's horrid to dwell on these things where the central effort and basic attitude is so right minded . |
| 24 | Are you sure it 's wise to lie in this sun without a hat ? ’ |
| 25 | In general , it 's wise to think of each term 's tuition fees as costing from £1300 to £1600 ( prices current in 1989/90 ) . |