Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a possible source for Loulou we can , I think , eliminate the mother of a ‘ hideous ’ English family encountered by Gustave on the boat from Alexandria to Cairo : with a green eyeshade attached to her bonnet , she looked ‘ like a sick old parrot ’ . |
| 2 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 3 | If you are to succeed as Chairman you must be well versed in what the committee 's task is supposed to be . |
| 4 | As chairman you can make or break the meeting by rewarding the wrong kind of behaviour by participants . |
| 5 | As chairman you should be asking yourself three key questions throughout the meeting : |
| 6 | ‘ As chairman I shall be working to ensure that the business voice is clearly heard in any discussions on any issue affecting the economic well being of this area , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Under Options for Change we could see there was going to be a reduction in defence expenditure . |
| 8 | Yeremi almost clung to the former undercity dweller , whether out of strange fellow feeling or only for support he could not have said . |
| 9 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 10 | The process is satirically described by Nashe in the Anatomie of Martin Marprelate : ‘ Having bestowed his bowels in a ditch … and filled his hungry belly … with coal dust , for spice they could not bestow ( his carrion being not worth it ) and sawdust they could have none ; they wrapped him in a blanket … for that all others are lapped in sheets . ’ |
| 11 | As camouflage they must obtain local clothing . |
| 12 | If the police were thinking about blackmail it would n't be long before they got to Barbara Porter . |
| 13 | ‘ For income I 'd again select a combination of funds . |
| 14 | If it is possible to show that existential propositions are equivalent to denials of the validity of inferences of a certain kind , then instead of talking about existence we can confine ourselves to talking about the validity of inference . |
| 15 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 16 | This is a vindictive and intolerant motion it sets an unfortunate precedent and in this debate about freedom we should support the rights of our tenants to choose . |
| 17 | If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence . |
| 18 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
| 19 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 20 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 21 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 22 | Hardly anybody would think of Richard Wilson or Wright of Derby for instance they 'd think of Turner or Constable . |
| 23 | We introduce the term transput from the Algol 68 language to cover both input and output : thus for instance we will talk of a transput device instead of a peripheral device , and a transput operation instead of an input/output operation . |
| 24 | For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period . |
| 25 | For instance we can tend to : |
| 26 | Right we can supply bank information for instance we can supply you with the balance , erm we should be able to let you know what sort of standing orders there are , erm but that would be charged at an extra rate because |
| 27 | For instance I might go erm that one that one and er that one . |
| 28 | All of the sources on the on the network look like so for instance I can do joins across two heterogeneous R D B M Ss. you can have a table with departments in , employee 's in Oracle , and salaries in D B two and I could use a single select statement and join all that information together in a single request to the Omni SQL Gateway . |
| 29 | For instance it might be suggested that action sample clients were less likely to be admitted straight away to long-term institutional care than control sample clients , for service-providers might have felt that with the Home Support Project such clients could be sustained at home whereas in its absence in the control areas they were not sustainable . |
| 30 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |