Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I close this week with only seven , I may only end up with one sale , and that 's not gon na to give me the income I want and big H wants so I can take her out for a Chinese . |
| 2 | To the sensor it appears that all the energy has been reflected from point P on the ground whereas , in fact , it has not , because some has been scattered within the atmosphere and has never reached the ground at all . |
| 3 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 4 | If that is the case I imagine that more Scots will wish to take advantage of trust status . |
| 5 | so these demons , these fallen angels have got , you see , you 've got to serve them and , and those of the bible , but once you 're dead , you go to the grave you see and that 's it , you 're not conscious of anything at all it says |
| 6 | The chairman who ventured that mild criticism was well-placed to do so . |
| 7 | After the election we asked whether each of the parties should now change its leaders , its policy , or both . |
| 8 | But when we all went back to training at our clubs , everyone was talking about the stick he got and all agreed it was disgraceful . ’ |
| 9 | Secondly , when the Department asked about the balance and breadth of the curriculum it found that few authorities encouraged schools to discuss the issues and it was mainly through routine visits of advisers that concern for balance and breadth was promoted . |
| 10 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
| 11 | He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now . |
| 12 | So , Davos and Mrs Davos try to buy the car they like and Fat Frank tries to sell the one he likes . |
| 13 | The Committee is sensitive to the concerns of local residents about the disruption they experience when major events take place at the stadium , and has undertaken to pursue all possible steps to maximise the use of public transport to take crowds to and from matches . |
| 14 | ‘ When Peter invited me to the club I knew that Dusty was retiring and that there would be a place up for grabs . |
| 15 | As he re-entered the bedroom he noticed that some of the drawers lay open and were messed up , and as the truth began to dawn on him he ran to his private money supply hidden in a sock , for his outings to the pub . |
| 16 | Moving into the passage he wondered whether this quiet air tinctured with the scent of incense , candles , and the more solidly Anglican smell of musty prayer books , metal polish and flowers , had held for Berowne also the promise of discovery , of a scene already set , a task inevitable and inescapable . |
| 17 | Many businesses with high potential for growth and job creation are not getting the help they need because most grants available are determined by geographic location , it was claimed . |
| 18 | By the time we reach the end of the scene we see that this is how it is , for the fulsome praisers of their father put aside their hypocrisy and , left alone with each other , and with us , reveal their true nature , moving down from inflated verse to coldly pragmatic prose : They are not only cold and censorious — ‘ unruly waywardness … infirm and choleric years … unconstant starts ’ — but end by planning some form of counteraction : ‘ We shall further think on it ’ — ‘ We must do something , and i ’ th' heat' ( 307f . ) . |
| 19 | I think the most attractive feature of being a pluralist is the independence it gives and that has certainly been borne out in my experience . |
| 20 | No I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebody |
| 21 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 22 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |
| 23 | No the woman was n't in the shop you see and young girl another girl in there Julie and that and she was running on to Pam . |
| 24 | To have closed such a gap the niggled gentleman must have swiped the juice from his companions ' lips the moment we passed and kick-started them into a sprint . |
| 25 | I just wonder erm , if this could n't be helped if you like , by increasing them rather than decreasing them , taking over perhaps some of the , not absolutely statutory , but some of the extra use of staff , and I do n't know if it 's possible , but at the moment I worry because some of the homes are only being inspected and visited by members anyway . |
| 26 | An an and to speak quite bluntly on the state of the evidence at the moment it seems that that is a very possible end to this case , in which case , in which case the jury wo n't even get round to having this matter . |
| 27 | Try not to respond the moment it ceases as this suggests to the dog that it can get its own way by behaving in this fashion . |
| 28 | As you know , at the moment it starts and five , but ideally perhaps it could start younger , but obviously there are financial considerations as well . |
| 29 | Everyone assumes that students know how to make and use their notes , and yet time and time again a piece of work does not receive the grade it deserves because crucial material or ideas have been left out ; often this is information which the lecturer gave out in classes but which the student did not note down . |
| 30 | Once again , it is the oscillating motion of the cross within the circle which symbolizes that forthcoming conflict between positive , evolutionary forces and negative dissolutionary forces during life on Earth that gives birth to the Swastika in both its configurations , i.e. right-angled or left-angled . |