Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While programmers have not been able to do that the results they have achieved suggest that this may not be such a good idea . |
| 2 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 3 | Make specific the goals you need to attain in order to earn each reward . |
| 4 | Consequently we utilise as much as possible the connections we have developed through industrial visits and the National Neighbourhood Engineering Scheme . |
| 5 | In spite of the profound dissimilarities between father and son , and the bitter personal conflicts between them , Frederick II remained always the executor of Frederick William I. ‘ Only his care , ’ he wrote of his father , ‘ his untiring work , his scrupulously just policies , his great and admirable thriftiness and the strict discipline he introduced into the army which he himself had created , made possible the achievements I have so far accomplished . ’ |
| 6 | Erm personally , er on the nuclear er atomic side , we we 're very involved with our own company , with B N F L at Sellafield , with the er manufacture of the precast concrete and , and I know what it means in terms of the , the safety incurred in in , in the design because it is quite erm er strenuous the things we have to go through . |
| 7 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 8 | Is it perennial the ones they call them ones that come up every year ? |
| 9 | If it is , I 'll just get some and give one each the kids I think we 've got enough sweeties . |
| 10 | Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too . |
| 11 | They were a little bigger than this the ones they had shunting here . |
| 12 | With such questions , a major task lies in unpacking the word-play , and making clear the distinctions you are drawing from the formulation of the question . |
| 13 | Funny the things you remember and I do n't probably true the other way round too if I care to mention things . |
| 14 | But they deny it and say that in well over half the cases they 've taken on , the fathers were paying nothing . |
| 15 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 16 | Half the decisions I read about in the newspapers . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Half the lies they tell about the Irish are n't true anyway , ’ as the old Irishman said . |
| 18 | Just under half the teachers I spoke to broadly agreed with the two who said of this collection of questions : ‘ very establishment ’ and ‘ obviously class-biased , sex-biased and race-biased ’ . |
| 19 | If you 're going away , pack only half the clothes you think you 'll want — everyone always takes too much ! |
| 20 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 21 | ‘ … we are of course much gratified to hear of your safety and that your expedition is progressing so prosperously : at the same time the Letter although a long one does not tell us half the things we most wished to know : it does not say ought of your movements , when we may expect you home , how Mrs Gould is , whether your attendants have answered your expectations , how Mastr . |
| 22 | He could hear the men beginning the old bawdy ‘ Thousand and One Nights of the Wolfking ‘ , which had been written about Cormac , and which Lugh did not care for overmuch , because even if you discounted half the things it said , you were still left with a patently exaggerated tale . |
| 23 | If half the things I 've done became public , I might be behind bars now . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not going to believe half the things I tell you , are you ? ’ |
| 25 | I should n't say half the things I do say , but I ge I get upset I do ! |
| 26 | ‘ You never know half the things you 've got until you have to do something about them , ’ he said amiably . |
| 27 | No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't know half the things he can make , Melanie . ’ |
| 29 | And er , it was very amusing , but repeatable , half the things he wrote in it , and erm , it 's very , it was very good , but , he is quite good at that when he sets his mind to it , it usually takes him about three days to do it , but he does like to er , write messages in people 's cards . |
| 30 | She had n't meant half the things she 'd said to him . |