Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am but mad north-north-west . |
| 2 | HAMLET : I am but mad north north-west ; when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 3 | May I say how thrilled I am that that United Kingdom shipyard has such a healthy order book ? |
| 4 | . But on crime prevention , I 'm for most part in plain clothes , I use my own car work and , I 'm not in a marked car , I do n't have a radio because my job , as I said from the beginning is very varied and therefore it 's not practical for me to have a radio . |
| 5 | And he said it was difficult for the jury to isolate the narrow questions that they were going to have to decide , which is whether these officers had er fabricated notes of an interview with one of the Birmingham Six , from all the information that they had . |
| 6 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |
| 7 | ‘ It fails to meet the central question in Scottish politics which is that any change which is to be meaningful must involve the transfer of political and legislative authority from Westminster to a parliament elected in Scotland by Scots . |
| 8 | Or is this line of thought simply a rationalization of the truth , which is that these days she and Charles disagree about almost everything ? |
| 9 | And there 's another side to that which is that some people in the statutory provision are in it for the money , for their careers , for empire building and so on . |
| 10 | Earlier we described a paradox which was that each user or group of users has a different need for information and the way that is presented to him . |
| 11 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 12 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 13 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 14 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 15 | The only requirement regarding the software itself is that each file should contain a module header . |
| 16 | ‘ It has already been hinted at by oor worthy comrade up the back before he passed oot , we are but six months old as a body … ’ |
| 17 | And that 's where we are and this morning . |
| 18 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 19 | One is that such policies produce an extension of economic freedom and , thereby , political freedom . |
| 20 | One is that younger children ask as many questions as older children but do not get the degree of cooperative response from their partners . |
| 21 | One is that any attempt to draw a line between the meaning of a word and ‘ encyclopaedic ’ facts concerning the extra-linguistic referents of the word would be quite arbitrary ; another is that there is no motivation for isolating ‘ pragmatic meaning ’ as a separate domain of lexical meaning . |
| 22 | One is whether binary oppositions exist in language to be discovered , or whether they are constructed as a convenient method of analysing language . |
| 23 | One is if local elements are arranged in parallel with independent access to the output mechanisms . |
| 24 | One was that some members of the public were unaware that they need not pay and gave in to the pressure of successive threatening letters . |
| 25 | And one was that this bungalow should be retained completely er by members of the Hosiery Finishers in spite of being a national union which of course has still operated , and secondly , that er nobody should go to this union until er er at least when I 've finished that they should be voted for and they were n't going to impose anybody on this union , they 'd vote for somebody from among their own members , which of course operated and that 's operating now . |
| 26 | There were lots of reasons but obviously the main one was because some staff joined the scheme , others did n't . |
| 27 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 28 | There are but two families in the world , as my old grandmother used to say , the Haves and the Have-nots . |
| 29 | I am certain of my facts & calculations ; so there are but two alternatives : either you have spent , not extravagantly , since you are not extravagant , but sillily & thoughtlessly , which really is far worse . |
| 30 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |