Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb base] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 2 | When I have to answer them I have some difficulty defending Members of the House , for whom I have a high regard and affection , if they behave badly , but such bad behaviour does not always come from the same side of the House . |
| 3 | I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo , with whom I feel a strong sense of identity , partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death ! |
| 4 | I I I know a good doctor |
| 5 | A lot of people would turn round and say Right I 'm a lorry driver and I I leave a nice gap . |
| 6 | Either a partner has financial troubles , which means you must take greater responsibility , or someone you have an emotional or financial link with will make it hard for you to enjoy the fruits of success . |
| 7 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 8 | As I sit at home , typing this book into a word processor , I can count over thirty devices around me which contain an integrated circuit of some kind . |
| 9 | Although none of the aquariums used are lit , rocks are placed in them which have a generous growth of algae on them , and are changed once the algae has gone through constant grazing . |
| 10 | I am saying Mr Major , as Prime Minister , if someone in my position is saying I believe , I believe , there is the best opportunity here for lasting peace , by which I mean a total cessation of violence , the least I expect is that you should listen to what I have to say . |
| 11 | Everyone , I 'm sure , has a ‘ little black dress ’ type of pattern , by which I mean a perennial favourite that gets made up in different yarns and colours over the years for various celebrations , parties and so on . |
| 12 | It seemed that they were either capitalist or social democrats which I mean a social democrat by any other na a Tory by any other name 's just the same . |
| 13 | In the Lyttelton , it 's such a thrill to see Alan Bennett blossom in another line of work , by which I mean a full-length piece like The Madness of George III . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman referred to another issue in which I take a good deal of interest — women and work . |
| 15 | These documents appear to be expanding in length daily , but the principal provisions tend to remain constant , and it is because of this that I have felt able to expound a series of amendments which I believe a commercial conveyancer should have in mind in considering the draft documentation . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe , ’ he said , ‘ that I can obtain you a position as reader in a publishing house in which I have a certain interest . |
| 17 | I mainly use the package with my Brother 950i , to which I have a connecting cable , but I ca n't wait for Soft Byte to produce one for the Pfaff 6000 so that I can view the patterns on screen before knitting them . |
| 18 | To choose , I have to judge that here and now , for me , one alternative is the better , and to make my choices consistently I have to add to ‘ Face facts ’ other principles to which I ascribe an imperative force , and ensure that they are logically compatible . |
| 19 | We were achieving considerable success right up to the moment of the late King 's sudden and unfortunate death in which you show a great deal of interest . ’ |
| 20 | THE ANALYSIS — the precise way in which you dissect an historical topic will largely determine which information is relevant and needs to be noted . |
| 21 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |
| 22 | They also all have free cable TV and Satellite TV for which you pay a small charge . |
| 23 | I refer to your fax of 17 April , in which you provide details of the type of research you propose to do for which you need an electronic dictionary tape . |
| 24 | However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government . |
| 25 | To test ( 0 , 1 5 , 1 25 ) for efficiency in P1 , we observe that x 2 , x 3 > 0 , x 1 = s 1 = s 2 = 0 so that t 2 = t 3 = 0 and the constraints of the dual problem of LP* ( 0 , 1 5 , 1 52 ) , of which we seek a non-negative solution , become |
| 26 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 27 | But it is not tautologous , and hence there must be another non-comparative use of the phrase ‘ appears white ’ — a use in which we make a genuine attempt to describe , without comparison , the way in which white things generally appear . |
| 28 | To which we add a whole series of other factors that we then kick around and argue over . |
| 29 | I picked on the Aplysia examples , because they lead to one of those rare cases in which we have a neurophysiological understanding of behaviour ( Fig. 3.7 ) . |
| 30 | Dolphins are probably as diverse now in terms of numbers of species , as at any time for which we have a good fossil record . |