Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1911 , women whose husbands were in insured employment received a maternity benefit of 30/ rising to £2 after World War I , which was completely absorbed by the cost of an attendant , leaving nothing for extra food and necessities for the mother and baby . |
| 2 | Unless we care nothing for human freedom and are impervious to human suffering , denunciation seems an implausible general justification for a system which deliberately inflicts punishment on people . |
| 3 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 4 | The closures are mainly smaller , less profitable branches or those with overlapping parishes : 150 full-time and 93 part-time staff will lose their jobs , some of them through voluntary redundancy and early retirement . |
| 5 | It was a delight to travel on them through exciting scenery that would otherwise have been out of reach . |
| 6 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 7 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 8 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 9 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 10 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 11 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 12 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 13 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 14 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 15 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 16 | I placed Geoffrey Wilkinson , a Principal Inspector of Accidents ( who has now succeeded me as Chief Inspector and head of AIB ) , in charge of the investigation . |
| 17 | I knew nothing about that deal until I played some recent demos of the things that eventually became ‘ Workbook ’ . |
| 18 | There is nothing about mere freedom that can guarantee anything . |
| 19 | ( Please note I have said nothing about female homosexuality since some of the above arguments do not apply , so will lesbians please save themselves a stamp ) . |
| 20 | I mean , tell them about natural selection and all that and do n't mention God . |
| 21 | Young people who have been caught in this trap have had no information given to them about this change and can not avail themselves of the choice of training like colleagues born on or before July 1 . |
| 22 | Erm strictly in those terms by by district , mainly because much of the development across North Yorkshire is on very small sites er within urban areas , within villages , the extent to which you define them as green field or brown field sites becomes a very subjective one and I I think it 's a very difficult line to draw . |
| 23 | ( That is to say , even if it were the case that e.g. broad-class syllables were easy to find , it would be pointless to use them for lexical access if the number of words described by a string of such units was huge . ) |
| 24 | And he said , I do apologize , he said , for the mucking about , he said we want to work with our sub-contractors very , very , closely and have a good er relationship with them for ongoing work and stuff like that . |
| 25 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 26 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 27 | The latest grab , the BBG 46 , will now pick up the bales in either direction , allowing the operator to cross stack them for safer transport and storage . |
| 28 | Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil . |
| 29 | I would not recommend them for submersed cultivation and I do not believe that a reputable aquarium dealer would sell you those plants as aquarium plants . |
| 30 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |