Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure about that my Lord |
| 2 | but should you have , should you have doubts about that my Lord then er what we urged your Lordship to do would be in your judgment er to include a consideration of the strength of the case er your Lordship is seized of the matter now , if your Lordship er considers that there are issues of law which require clarification from the European court of justice and in competition cases all the European court candid on references is to give guidance on questions of law , your Lordship identifies questions of law which need to be i which need to be resolved and you think that it is the most appropriate course to refer a question , then we would ask that your Lordship consider in the interim the position of the , the Lloyds Act clauses there are sort to be challenged by the defences because it will be |
| 3 | Each year the Committee receives nearly a thousand documents from Brussels , with helpful explanatory memoranda from the Government which summarize for each its nature and likely effect , the Government 's approach to it , and the prospective timing of its progress in Brussels and Strasbourg . |
| 4 | For a while it looked as if pity would be in order for Nadeem Shahid , and for that your correspondent must shoulder some of the blame . |
| 5 | The alternative was that Richard become my legal ward , and for that his father 's signed agreement was necessary . |
| 6 | Compared with Burton 's or that of Sir John Gell [ q.v. ] for 1659 his diary is somewhat slight , but as the only internal account and commentary on the debates it has unique value . |
| 7 | But I can still only see through half my eye . |
| 8 | It has an extremely long radioactive half-life ( the time it takes for half its activity to decay ) of up to 24,000 years . |
| 9 | These are confined to the Coccoidea , where the best known is carminic acid , the colouring principle of cochineal , found in the eggs and fat body of the female Dactylopius coccus and accounting for half its body weight . |
| 10 | Steel benefited from major government loans , accounting for half its borrowing during the first five-year plan . |
| 11 | Another controversial aspect of the road plan was the recommendation that for half its length it should be routed through land belonging to Manuel Zelaya , a powerful Honduran sawmill owner . |
| 12 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 13 | Private hospitals not owned by Bupa are reckoned to rely on patients who are insured by Bupa for half their business . |
| 14 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 15 | Holidays change over once a fortnight , except in May and June when there 's space for some one week holidays . |
| 16 | As Percivall noted in 1843 ‘ One of the Professor 's projects was crowned with signal success ; and for this his name must be handed to posterity with no ordinary eclat — I mean his introduction of Ventilation into stables and other places used as the habitations of horses and cattle . |
| 17 | For this his upbringing and his epoch were partly responsible ; he was not quite the gentleman , which he regretted , and Burns had not yet exempted literary men from this particular form of remorse . |
| 18 | For this his ability to compromise and reconcile is beyond doubt responsible in part . |
| 19 | Then more prayers : ‘ Thank You , O Lord , for this Thy gift of precious food . |
| 20 | The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land ’ . |
| 21 | Despite their scepticism , readers said they found the press useful , particularly for guiding their voting decision if not for providing information . |
| 22 | After that her mother , Eliza , had come into the bedroom and led Janine out , taking her into her own bedroom . |
| 23 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |
| 24 | Then her second child was born and shortly after that her father died . |
| 25 | After that its popularity spread so rapidly that by 1883 , the year of the National Apple Congress held at the society 's garden in Chiswick , 183 out of 231 exhibitors included it among the varieties they showed . |
| 26 | The ball behaves initially as if the heavy weight were still there ; but after that its fate is sealed . |
| 27 | After that their nature unfolds remorselessly petal by petal . ’ |
| 28 | after that we sort of passed it on to the one next you know what to expect , but if it was down to my mother she 'd never tell you . |
| 29 | After that my response seems mechanical . |
| 30 | The night after that my sleep was invaded by a series of disturbing dreams . |