Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 2 | There is nothing covert about this operation . |
| 3 | He looked like a child wearing his father 's clothes , but there was nothing childlike about this man . |
| 4 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 5 | There is nothing shameful in this situation and we will be better able to deal with it if we recognise it . |
| 6 | But I find nothing improper in this threat . |
| 7 | There is nothing improper in this process ; it may be regarded as a natural part of political negotiation in a pluralist society . |
| 8 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 9 | They are chained separately only to keep them clear of each other . |
| 10 | For purposes of exposition there is nothing wrong with such use of the schemas . |
| 11 | There is nothing wrong with such fear if it leads a Christian to cry out in weakness to God and exercise faith . |
| 12 | There was nothing wrong with either drive yesterday . |
| 13 | You travelled along it yesterday , there was nothing wrong with this road yesterday . |
| 14 | Now there is nothing wrong with this argument as it stands , but it is weak ; it assumes that there are other minds than our own , and argues only that we may be mistaken about their states , thinking someone to be happy when she is really sad , etc . |
| 15 | And they say there 's nothing wrong with this house and I 'm imagining things . ’ |
| 16 | " There 's nothing wrong with this side , " she answered . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with this thing , Charlie ! ’ |
| 18 | There 's nothing wrong in that belief provided you do it properly . |
| 19 | There are trade union leaders who see nothing wrong in this situation . |
| 20 | Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening . |
| 21 | While there is nothing funny about this situation , sometimes the result may be funny . |
| 22 | What is more , when you take the proceeds , you receive them FREE OF ALL TAXATION , under current legislation . |
| 23 | You can get them free from most Needle Exchanges and Family Planning Clinics . |
| 24 | In the 1988 elections to the National Assembly in Cameroun , the two alternative lists of candidates , under a proportional representation system , were consistently doctored to make them indistinguishable from each other . |
| 25 | It kept them apart , kept them foreign to each other , him unhaveable , her unhad . |
| 26 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 27 | ‘ Right , you save me some of that breakfast , young Carrie , and I 'll go out now and check on things about the farm . ’ |
| 28 | I hope they 're going to save me some of that chip … . |
| 29 | It urged skins to ‘ I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet , put your braces together and your boots on your feet and give me some of that oooold moooonstompin ! ’ but it was a crude attempt to satisfy the skinhead market . |
| 30 | Outline the distinction between exposure and resultant cratering and the factors which make them different from each other . |