Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Forgive me but it seems to me strange that a lady such as you … how shall I say … should stay in a pensione .
2 Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured .
3 Therefore it appears to me clear that a corporation at common law may maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured .
4 Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet …
5 Many of us sometimes need to talk through our anxieties with someone other than a friend and the Samaritans are always glad to listen .
6 Had the victim been someone other than a policeman , however , who might more readily have been provoked by the defendant 's conduct , the defendant would have had sufficient mens rea under the section , since he would have been aware that his conduct might be insulting .
7 Bowe , 6ft 5in and 235lb , and with an 81-inch reach , represents the man mountain that Holyfield must scale if he is to be accepted as someone other than a caretaker holding the keys to the division until another genuine champion arrives .
8 ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply .
9 Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river .
10 In answer there was a splashing to their left and a second whoop of laughter .
11 So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell .
12 Even more than in the 1930s , the TUC were imprisoned within constraints imposed on it by a capitalist wage-structure : the TUC argued strongly for adequate pensions ( denying , for example , that an old person needed less to eat ) ; but if this was to be implemented without encouraging further wage-cuts to elderly workers , then it appeared to them inevitable that a retirement condition must be introduced .
13 Yeremi 's amazement at being tested in the presence of none other than a Space Marine was spiked with bile at the recollection of how that brat and his fellow high-life hooligans , who stood so contemptuously above any law , had hustled injured cousin Yakobi away to a vile death , crowing and bragging .
14 It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation .
15 Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire .
16 ‘ Are you aware that a drugs ring is being operated in the club ? ’ he asked abruptly .
17 I had literally had everything possible that a judge can give you .
18 The winners will get a contract with EMI 's Parlophone — the label that launched The Beatles — - to produce one single and a video .
19 as something other than a Poetry book .
20 For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China .
21 ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’
22 The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) .
23 However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause .
24 Equally ( as I have suggested ) it is difficult for her to have a God who is something other than a force ( perhaps a human idea ) present within history .
25 Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before .
26 However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences .
27 It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue .
28 Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience .
29 for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger !
30 ‘ It seems to me evident that a family will provide support for each other , ’ she told a conference of 300 experts .
  Next page