Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , on small-scale maps it is of course quite pointless to be too precise . |
| 2 | Despite the conflicting accounts it is clear that Richard had the upper hand and that William des Barres lost his valuable war-horse . |
| 3 | By examining the details visible on surviving coins it is possible to identify coins struck from the same die or dies , for they will show no divergence whatsoever in the details of the designs ( fig. 6 ) . |
| 4 | Building on solid foundations it is extremely encouraging to report that last year we saw a dramatic increase in the numbers of candidate entries . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 6 | That makes over fifty ponies he 's sold this year that he claims took part . |
| 7 | With these modified rules it is easy to adapt the procedure of this section for use in the PFRS format ( Exercise 3 ) . |
| 8 | In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear . |
| 9 | All guitars , from the cheapest acoustics to the top-of-the-range electrics are buzz-checked in soundproofed rooms ; their playing actions are measured and if any guitar falls below the proscribed tolerences it is sent off to be readjusted , perhaps even fret-dressed , before rechecking , packing and shipping . |
| 10 | To understand the expression of political attitudes it is necessary to place them in their argumentative context . |
| 11 | In understanding design-society relationships it is crucial that we understand what we are talking about when we use the word " design " . |
| 12 | Despite the British Council 's regional offices it is essentially London-based and urban-orientated . |
| 13 | The Darlington result has always been one keenly watched by national political pundits it is traditionally a barometer of the way in which the nation generally is set to swing . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc said yesterday it plans to start selling satellite dishes and receivers by Christmas , making the move since it is one of the few activities it is allowed to pursue in the entertainment arena : ‘ We see it as a very important part of our wish to be part of the converging area of telephony , entertainment and computers , ’ the company told Reuter ; the company will reportedly source the equipment from two unidentified UK companies , in a move that is a significant threat to Amstrad Plc , whose shares fell tuppence to 31p . |
| 15 | Although Sun has other existing engineering projects which utilise Russian expertise — also lead by Dr. Babaian — these are focused purely on research , and Sun claims that in employing Russian scientists to develop commercial products it is breaking new ground for a Western firm . |
| 16 | For British artists it 's important that they should be able to match their work against the best international modern art . |
| 17 | In the birds , the brain has evolved so that in some groups it is comparable in size and complexity to that found in primates . |
| 18 | And then the the last few times it 's me son 's been aggravating me to go into his caravan , you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 20 | Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others . |
| 21 | But at some times it 's apparent and at other times it 's not . |
| 22 | In certain social groups it is possible to examine replacement rates , namely the number of children in a family who survived to adulthood . |
| 23 | For these and other linguistic and cultural reasons it is relatively easy for the speaker of one Bantu language to learn another and develop a high level of competence in it . |
| 24 | The bathroom 's a bit chilly but once you 've put that heater on and shut the door for a few minutes it 's |
| 25 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 26 | And we think er in some cases it 's very expensive . |
| 27 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 28 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 29 | In some cases it 's hoped patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
| 30 | In some cases it 's even making a loss . |