Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 2 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 3 | However , when making projections about the health status of future generations of elderly it is important to recognize that cohort effects may be very influential . |
| 4 | It is true that today 's speakers , not knowing the origins of generic he , may regard it as just a feature of grammar . |
| 5 | For a family with particular needs for quiet it was ideal , and when Mr Cohen was well a short walk took them into this repose of diverting potential . |
| 6 | The seventies were certainly a period of great change in attitudes within the Customs & Excise in general , and on the cutters in particular we saw great improvements in many ways with the acquisition of better technical equipment such as highly sophisticated radio communication , and the development of international relations . |
| 7 | No sulks from United they came back with a bounce … and this should have been 2-1 … the run and shot was down to Chris Pike but the referee gave off-side against Pickard who was minding his own business … bad decision |
| 8 | If the Defendants pay your legal costs in full you will be refunded any contributions that you have made . |
| 9 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 10 | It is ringed by villages known as the ‘ seven towns ’ , which for centuries were sustained by the rights of common they enjoyed upon Otmoor 's lush pastures . |
| 11 | I mean that just sounds like familiar you know , I mean not that |
| 12 | Passing the p time of day about th things in general you know . |
| 13 | But the dressmaker had obviously decided it was too plain and added a few frills to liven it up a bit . |
| 14 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 15 | The orchard lay well back from the riverside , and the wealth of old and well-grown trees between isolated it from the house . |
| 16 | and we were talking mainly , an elderly , a female elderly client group , let's be honest you know , in terms of blind you know , and just wait till you see it , it 's lovely |
| 17 | Even those who do not condemn democracy out of hand have often contrived more subtle ways of disparaging it . |
| 18 | It reported back : ‘ Levels of Alar we found in apple juices are higher than are being reported in the US and pose a cancer risk considered unacceptably high by US Federal Government standards . ’ |
| 19 | Now my , my unders my er erm thought would be that in reviewing the management accounts in general and the admissions in general you are keeping a wether eye on that . |
| 20 | She loves chicken and wanted ways to liven it up without using fattening butter or cream sauces . |
| 21 | To her , as to Edmund , the question of legitimacy is a nuisance to be subverted : When Goneril 's ‘ trusty servant ’ , Oswald , bears a letter from her to Edmund , Regan attempts to corrupt him into giving it to her ( IV.v.20ff . ) . |
| 22 | Phillips 's omission of a price expectations term from his original study may have been warranted in practice owing to the low rates of inflation which were experienced from the Great War onwards ; but when it comes to analyzing inflationary processes in general it is invalid . |
| 23 | Thank God for people who are naturally astute , as well , I do n't know where I 'd be without my husband whose precise , unfailing , streetwise insight into people knocks spots off my long-winded shots at psycho-analysing them . |
| 24 | I 'm not about to fulfil your fantasies by sweeping you off your feet and into bed . ’ |
| 25 | In his subsequent 17 hours at large he had seized , with a 100-strong force , the central police headquarters . |
| 26 | In its higher reaches in particular it was still , as generally in the eighteenth century , the preserve of a social élite . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell the boys in blue we have him , ’ said Brown . |
| 28 | Demands around housing therefore must be seen to be as politically central as demands around the wage and employment , and not simply be seen as a matter of individual choice , which for women in particular it is not . |
| 29 | In an interesting study of recent US college writing handbooks ( which are especially good indicators of changing standards since they are revised extremely frequently ) Sharon Zuber demonstrates that the authors of these influential texts have moved from noting feminist objections to generic he , to suggesting nonsexist language as an option writers might consider , to recommending it — or at least some forms of it — as a norm . |
| 30 | Oh yeah I mean you take now the erm , you could say nineteen twenty six bloke , I remember an old union bloke , he was on the railway and er , when they cleaned the fire out , cos he used to get all the out , and er these here firemen on cool it with a that 's when they first started to nationalize the docks and he said well , they er , he said waste that he said when nationalization come in , well there was a lot more wasted then after that . |