Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q Please could you tell me the water requirements of my two Banded Severums ? |
| 2 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 3 | The owners showed me the hotel rooms , which looked extremely pleasant and had pure cotton sheets . |
| 4 | Around me the entertainment centres were bulging and booming as the night gathered impetus . |
| 5 | Another glance in the mirror showed me the twin head-lamps of a powerful car about the size of a small battleship . |
| 6 | ‘ Dr Greene has deputised you to show me the sonogram pictures and explain them , I hope . ’ |
| 7 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 8 | Marlon just give me the tracksuit bottoms . |
| 9 | The thing about the business miles , you were right to ask me the business miles |
| 10 | The finance approach is weak at assessing future cash flows , but says ‘ give me the cash estimates and I will tell you how that affects the shareholders ’ risk positions and hence the market value of the company' . |
| 11 | Oh I like if I 'd have known you were going I 'd have got you to get me the nut ones . |
| 12 | And pass me the soor plooms |
| 13 | Give me the car keys . ’ |
| 14 | By the ti me the Captain returns , Corporal M has removed the ‘ Wheelbarrow ’ from the van , and is busy loading its weapons . |
| 15 | They also showed me the silver anklets for state elephants ( used until the 1930s ) and silver palanquins , used as recently as the 1950s . |
| 16 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 17 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 18 | Five of the eight were refusers of services whom the development officers visited regularly — usually at least twice a week — to try to get them to accept help . |
| 19 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 20 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 21 | If the organisation appoints committees to deal with aspects of planning , policy forming and co-ordination there needs to be clear lines of communication so that everyone involved knows the person to whom the committee reports . |
| 22 | A contact orderwhich requires the person with whom the child lives , or is to live , to allow the child to visit or stay with the person named in the order or for that person and the child to otherwise have contact with each other . |
| 23 | It is not the son of a poor carpenter whom the usurper fears , but the Messiah , the rightful anointed king — a figure who , by virtue of some inherent genealogical qualification , might rally popular support and , if not depose him , at least compromise him on specifically political grounds . |
| 24 | Party conferences were not just piss and wind ; among the 7,000 pilgrims there were not a few for whom the hotel bedrooms of Brighton were the promised land , a weakness shared by some Tribunes of the People . |
| 25 | Discussion of the various phenomena of ‘ exposure learning ’ in Chapter 1 revealed just such an effect — rats given prolonged exposure to a pair of stimuli presented in their home cages learned a subsequent simultaneous discrimination between these stimuli more readily than subjects for whom the test stimuli were novel ( Gibson and Walk 1956 ) . |
| 26 | This was adopted by the House of Lords in the GCHQ case , where Lord Diplock said that ‘ National security is the responsibility of the executive government ; what action is needed to protect its interests is … a matter upon which those upon whom the responsibility rests , and not the courts of justice , must have the last word . ’ |
| 27 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 28 | This is a generation for whom the war years remain vivid and the Empire had real meaning . |
| 29 | It must proceed on the presumption omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta until that presumption can be displaced by the applicant for review — upon whom the onus lies of doing so . |
| 30 | This was no peasant revolution , but an insurrection led by the intelligentsia of the new middle classes ( those professional groups whom the Enlightenment aristocrats despised as base and usurers ) . |