Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recovered his rudeness , and said , " I do n't care what sort of bloody birds you 're after . |
| 2 | In telephone calls and private meetings they are saying : ‘ Do n't do anything to rock the boat . |
| 3 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 4 | The noises ‘ car ’ , ‘ dog ’ , ‘ house ’ bear no resemblance to the item in question , neither do the noises ‘ anger ’ , ‘ fear ’ , ‘ contentment ’ or , meekness ' bear any resemblance to the emotional states they are intended to convey . |
| 5 | However , as Lennie ( 1980 ) points out , that does not mean that these cells respond more rapidly to visual stimuli than the other classes , since the latency of response to visual input is determined largely by events in the retina At low spatial frequencies they are linear but as the spatial frequency is increased non-linear properties emerge . |
| 6 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 7 | Throughout , the legislators concerned will be subject to a great deal of explicit lobbying , and will be aware of the political debts they are expected to settle through the budget , as well as the importance that their decisions may have for their own political futures . |
| 8 | If you damage crops or upset animals you are making it more difficult for someone to earn their living . |
| 9 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 10 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 11 | In pleading , however , for home-grown evangelists we are not excluding the role of the itinerant evangelist . |
| 12 | By virtue of socialization in the ‘ best ’ private schools they are assured access to the approved universities which stamp them as potential cadres of the ruling class ( Kellner and Crowther-Hunt , 1980 ) . |
| 13 | If you walk into Spanish shops they 're on size eight shoes I mean what would you mean what are you talking about . |
| 14 | This they can not do , mainly because they take out of context the parental characteristics they are studying and then average out all fluctuations over time and situation . |
| 15 | ‘ Some vegetables I 'm very fond of — peas I 'm relatively neutral about . ’ |
| 16 | Well they have bigger detached houses I 'm not sure how individual they actually are . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is the historic old houses you are likely to recall long after the memory of the well kept gardens , water sports , smart promenades and bathing pools have faded . |
| 18 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 19 | next few programmes we 're going to take a look at trends in science and engineering , particularly in the way that the subjects are taught and opportunities for employment . |
| 20 | Moving into their stage 2 subgroups they are asked to share and relate these reactions . |
| 21 | Now , if we can do it , and it 's not magic , then there must be some reasons we can do it , some rules we 're following , and those rules can in principle be put into computers . |
| 22 | According to Max Gluckman , gossip and scandal are ‘ among the most important societal and cultural phenomena we are called upon to analyse ’ . |
| 23 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 24 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 25 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 26 | In some cases we are sympathetic to their ideals and share their concerns . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 28 | Do you know we 're actually , on some cases we 're actually stealing their thunder . |
| 29 | In some cases they are also nutritionally unsound . |
| 30 | Indeed in some cases they are . |