Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er to me it does n't matter s er that much , what I 'm concerned about is that this is a matter of public interest , it should n't just be a matter of professional interest and it 's for these reasons I think the government should take a rather more lively interest er than perhaps it does . |
| 2 | ‘ One of the reasons I think the Japanese are so good at putting in quality systems is that , in some ways , it 's painful attention to detail , a series of little things which really improve performance . |
| 3 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 4 | For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order . |
| 5 | In fact , the hours are so long at clubs I suspect an ordinary shop-keeping junior would soon quit and go back to Sainsbury 's . |
| 6 | However , contemplating our political parties and their programmes I see no hope of a potential Fairy Godmother prepared to wave a financial wand which would render unnecessary either University or College fundraising . |
| 7 | In the older cases I find no such distinction . |
| 8 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 9 | Anybody wants some copies I have a few copies here . |
| 10 | The switches I find the most awkward to deal with are the mains rotary on/off switches that are supplied by several of the main electronic component retailers . |
| 11 | Of all the Bletchley eccentrics I suppose the most celebrated now must be Alan Turing , largely because he has been the subject of Hugh Whitemore 's very successful play Breaking the Code . |
| 12 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 13 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
| 14 | Well times I receive a fax I just keep going up there and bothering them until they say it 's gone through . |
| 15 | A lot of times I play the guy who knows what to do , and that 's not really me . |
| 16 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 17 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 18 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 19 | Many times I see a nameless beauty and my soul is moved , but my words can not contort themselves into a likeness of this beauty . |
| 20 | Behind those eyes I see a romantic mind . ’ |
| 21 | Right , so that 's all we want to look at with regards learning styles I think the key thing to remember is that we must n't fall into the trap , because it 's our learning style if we actually put together our training which reflects our style . |
| 22 | For two months I read no magazine or even newspaper review column . |
| 23 | And they , of course , fuel the form of crime fiction that attempts to do something more than indulge in a contest with the reader — the books I call the detective novel and the crime novel . |
| 24 | If he likes to use large dragons I think the choice of counter-measure if obvious . |
| 25 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 26 | Heads says you have the kids , tails I have the combining . |
| 27 | Further , in the context of statutory demands I see no compelling need to give a more extended meaning to the word ‘ action . ’ |
| 28 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 29 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 30 | Some writers have attempted to draw up some general guidelines which relate the weeding of research material to the concept of obsolescence — the diminution in the use of literature over the course of time . |