Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What associated skills do we |
| 2 | As one of the party 's rural Deputies put it : ‘ If Ray proves he can do the toughest job in the EC , and he has , would n't it be foolish not to give him the opportunity to run this little country of ours ? ’ |
| 3 | There is , of course , an enormous difference between the private/public demands of the two examples : writing my own private notes protects me rather more than having publicly to make suggestions on how the teacher as ‘ patient ’ should , say , knock on a door . |
| 4 | Small wonder that flocks of European and Scandinavian birds choose it as their resting point when migrating to more congenial climes each winter . |
| 5 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 6 | This depends on the judges ' views of the merits of the case before them or ( I would add ) the direction their political inclinations lead them — what I call below their ‘ view of the public interest ’ . |
| 7 | The biggest complaint was prison food , with just one in eight prisoners saying it was good . |
| 8 | Several of the actresses make plucky attempts to inject it with a semblance of artistic integrity : proper name Diane Whitley is convincing as Karen , the girl who is the subject of the lovelorn quest , and Paula Wilcox , as the veteran competitor , has enough experience and talent to gauge the scale of this production and perform accordingly . |
| 9 | Often , apprentice footballers refuse to sign professional forms seeing them , as one Midland youth put it , as ‘ bad risks ’ ; and young boxers would , in the pugilistic vernacular , ‘ swallow ’ before they had given their careers time to bloom — usually on the say-so of parents . |
| 10 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 11 | Secondly , and more importantly , speakers who are not familiar with the use of weak forms are likely to have difficulty understanding speakers who do use weak forms ; since practically all native speakers of British English use them , learners of the language need to learn about these weak forms to help them to understand what they hear . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the effect of synonymous substitution and the continuing relevance of their literal meanings make it unsatisfactory simply to call them ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 13 | They made courteous and persistent attempts to amuse her . |
| 14 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 15 | eight hours sleep I should think . |
| 16 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 17 | Far from being sport , it 's his job to keep herds in check and make sure these ‘ sportsmen ’ do n't leave an animal wounded and in pain from their hopeless attempts to shoot it , and his respect for living things is acute . |
| 18 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 19 | He entered her fiercely , her body and all her senses filled with him until , as before , the slumbering embers of the fire he had lit last night now blazed again , the raging flames consuming them both . |
| 20 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 21 | This sudden use of low notes gives them prominence and unusual power . |
| 22 | UNESCO : What specific proposals have you discussed ? |
| 23 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 24 | any new constitutional arrangement must provide what the 1920 Government of Ireland Act tragically failed to achieve : tough guarantees of basic rights for the minority as well as for the majority community , together with accessible and representative institutions to enforce them . |
| 25 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 26 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |
| 27 | NEXT month 's Budget should provide tax concessions for owners of historic houses to help them meet crippling maintenance costs , according to Earl Haig . |
| 28 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 29 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 30 | The church was n't particularly old , built on a high tide of Victorian prosperity like the tall houses surrounding it . |