Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in February 1726 Montrose instructed his commissioner in Scotland to organise his friends to support the plan of a reduction in emoluments for the collector , believing that this would discourage the new candidates and ensure Kirkton 's re-election , for the duke was determined ‘ to stand by him upon the above terms , I mean of a smaller sellary for the future ’ . |
| 2 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 3 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 4 | I recall in an earlier LRO article that a 3 litre version of this engine was made and is a good conversion . |
| 5 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 6 | It felt quite good to get them returned covered with diagrams and comments , I know of no better sign that a project has the attention and support of the personnel involved . |
| 7 | ‘ My lord , ’ she said , ‘ I know of no greater honour you could offer me , nor any that I would more joyfully embrace . |
| 8 | ‘ At length I yielded … in obedience I believe to a higher Power . |
| 9 | Years before , Nietzsche had written : " the past is dearer to me than the present ; but I believe in a better future " . |
| 10 | I turn to the further question concerning an order for possession of 100 , Gurney Road with a view to its sale . |
| 11 | Well the earlier I go in the quicker I 'm home . |
| 12 | Er er I think on a bigger job i it it 's perhaps a different story . |
| 13 | When I read Ash , I think of the younger Coleridge , reciting with gusto his epigram upon Donne : |
| 14 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 15 | I block in the smaller shapes of the windows in the building and the light in the clock tower . |
| 16 | I block in the smaller shapes of the windows in the building and the light in the clock tower . |
| 17 | I enquire about the cheaper PS/1 ( a snip at £699 , plus VAT , complete with starter software ) . |
| 18 | Elaine , a 16-year-old girl who has spent most of her life on the streets of Rio de Janeiro , in Brazil , puts it better : ‘ I dream of a better world , a world where children and adults are no longer abandoned , tortured and murdered because of who we are or what we do … |
| 19 | Beats at the second level are stronger beats which alternate with the weaker beats at the lower level . |
| 20 | The MacSharry proposals , which discriminate against the larger and more efficient British farmer , are totally unacceptable and must be firmly and unequivocally rejected . |
| 21 | stage 3 modules which provide for a wider range of opportunities for science specialisation . |
| 22 | An oil refinery at Llandarcy ( Swansea ) was started when smaller tankers were used than the modern supertankers which dock in the deeper water of the ria , or drowned valley , of Milford Haven . |
| 23 | We leave that to the specialists , and indeed I think that the reason why we 're particularly concerned with disasters which happen in the poorer parts of the world , the developing countries , is because they seem to have less of a voice to be able to complain about what is done to them . |
| 24 | The first which establish themselves by chance in a particular spot , tend , by the mere occupancy of space , to exclude other species — the greater choke the smaller , the longest livers replace those which last for a shorter period , he more prolific gradually make themselves masters of the ground , which species multiplying more slowly would otherwise fill . |
| 25 | In this process of informalisation ‘ dominant modes of social conduct ’ have been violated by the upwardly mobile groups , and have given way to new codes which allow for a greater variety of behavioural alternatives . |
| 26 | Teachers will be in a position to form more accurate judgements about strengths and weaknesses of individual pupils in relation to attainment targets for history and will need to develop approaches which allow for a larger range of learning activities to be occurring than has , hitherto , been the case . |
| 27 | The area of medical jurisprudence is replete with such absurdities , which date from an earlier age when superstition was a substitute for knowledge . |
| 28 | In particular , they will not wish to sell longer dated bills , the prices of which rise by a larger amount for a given change in interest rates . |
| 29 | I shall update you with any changes which occur at a later date . |
| 30 | Earlier Land Rovers with the smaller wheel studs , were designed to carry most of the load on the large hole in the centre , so fitting Range Rover wheels , which carry the loading on the studs , is not on unless you change for the later SIII type hubs . |