Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione . |
| 2 | That would have suited me that and a loaf of bread . |
| 3 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 4 | Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured . |
| 5 | when I lost my six and a half stone |
| 6 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 7 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 8 | That was the point when I decided not to use my 20s for a ‘ proper ’ career . |
| 9 | My two and a quarter petrol 1981 SWB would have needed an expensive conversion to run on unleaded petrol so I am using Carbonflo instead . |
| 10 | Can you tell me the year of manufacture of my two and a quarter petrol engine number 90110300A . |
| 11 | To achieve more power for towing in my two and a quarter petrol County , I want to fit a Rover 3.5 SD1 engine . |
| 12 | Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen . |
| 13 | Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives . |
| 14 | Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting . |
| 15 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 16 | Of course this would be easier for you — a middle-aged man is more likely to find someone attractive than a middle-aged woman — but if I am prepared to accept this disadvantage , why should you grumble ? |
| 17 | The pine wood looked just the same as ever , it always did , it was always dark and dense with very narrow passages through it that would surely allow nothing bigger than a fox to weave its way through . |
| 18 | There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season , with its pylons marching up a scarred , broken hillside . |
| 19 | There 's nothing nicer than an evening hack after a day in the office , and even if you prefer riding earlier , the extra hour of daylight somehow seems to lift the spirits . |
| 20 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 21 | Most of these future buy-in managers are currently in their forties , although 23 percent are in their thirties and a fifth are over 50 . |
| 22 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 23 | The record of Patrick Noel Fox ( 28 ) , of Creenagh Road , Coalisland , ran to 12 pages of which three and a half related to a single court appearance in Dungannon . |
| 24 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 25 | In answer there was a splashing to their left and a second whoop of laughter . |
| 26 | This section of the towpath was about six feet wide , with the riverside cottages to their left and an iron railing to the right . |
| 27 | Piloted by BC 's own GEC Stephenson diesel shunter , the 1950's built tank heaved 16 wagon-long loaded trains down their three and a half mile long mineral line under the M6 Motorway to exchange sidings with British Rail . |
| 28 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 29 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 30 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |