Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [conj] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with my limited knowledge of the cost of advertising in a posh Sunday colour magazine , I realised that such an exercise would mop up at least twice Supersight 's annual spend on promotion . |
| 2 | With my colleague , the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) , in mind , I say that such a process will break up the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | How did I know that such-and-such a principle was right , especially when no one there shared it ? |
| 4 | I hope that such a proposal will form part of the next phase of ‘ Greenway ’ proposals . |
| 5 | I hope that such a project will be a centre for other arts , too . |
| 6 | I appreciate that such a scheme would take some working out , but to me there seems a real possibility of its working . |
| 7 | I vote that this a good point other activities for the County Council in a few years that you that you will find er people anxious to support , thank you gentlemen |
| 8 | I pressed that such an undertaking would be meaningless if they were free to take the Conservative whip in common with faulknerite unionists . |
| 9 | But I know that such a talented writer . |
| 10 | Revolutions occur from time to time in nearly every field of science , and I believe that such a revolution is occurring in medicine — largely through the impact of complementary medicine . |
| 11 | I believe that such a Home Rule settlement remains the most credible and practicable goal for Labour in Scotland to aim at . |
| 12 | I believe that such a sharing will lead to each school establishing its own targets : not narrow targets like those listed by well-intentioned politicians but much broader-based priorities . |
| 13 | My Lords , I believe that such an officer is very badly needed now in Your Lordships House |
| 14 | But then I doubt whether such a thing as a typical newspaper office exists . |
| 15 | But I doubt that such a romantic vision really matches the truth . |
| 16 | I doubt if such a paragon exists . " |
| 17 | I agree that such a consequence would have followed had the parties been on equal terms . |
| 18 | I agree that such a consequence would have followed had the parties been on equal terms . |
| 19 | I agree that such a tax system based on the capital value of houses , on a national banding system , would be unfair unless we had taken care to provide for compressed rates of taxation . |
| 20 | Assuming that he meant ‘ Cecil ’ and not ‘ Michael ’ of that surname , I wonder whether such a step might have the reverse effect . |
| 21 | A great chance lost , for had I kept as careful a lookout in front as I had behind I should have seen her before she saw me . |
| 22 | Little did I imagine that such a move was destined for me within the next two years . |
| 23 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 24 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 25 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |
| 26 | Often it is a conscious rebellion against this sort of pressure which implies that such a man is only ‘ acceptable ’ to females if he is ‘ nice and clean ’ . |
| 27 | Innocent 's imposition of an interdict was parried by the archbishop of Toledo who argued that such a sentence would only encourage heresy and the Muslims , but Innocent did not stop trying to break the marriage . |
| 28 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 29 | Do you know if such a list exists and if so where I might get hold of it ? |
| 30 | The complaint that there is never a moment 's peace is countered by some nurses who say that such a system allows for a ‘ snooze hour ’ after lunch when no routine tasks were undertaken and the ward was as quiet as possible . |