Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 However , our conception of word-meaning has the advantage of being intuitively plausible : its scope coincides well with the pre-theoretical notion of word-meaning that anyone with a practical interest in meaning — a lexicographer , translator , or language teacher , or even a novelist or poet — is likely to have .
2 Erm there is er a danger that we as a County Council might become er embroiled in doing erm er work concerning the possible
3 I am trying , within the context of the debate , to identify how we can move forward from the 1990s to the 21st century , the problems that we as a nation will have to face , our relationship with Europe and how we can learn from the nations that we have said are the best , such as Germany , and develop a sound strategic regional policy .
4 Can I ask you though to devise a name that you as a team would wish to be known by , and then I can start er , on the scoreboard .
5 That we are again debating environmental policy reflects the priority that we as a Government , this House and the nation as a whole attach to this most central of issues .
6 There are severe problems of democracy that we as a nation need to face , particularly in local government .
7 Be best cut out with a sharp knife that something like a Stanley knife
8 The French elaborated a lot of wonderful nonsense in the nineteenth century about the climate pauses of the British character , they said that because we all lived in the fog we were incapable of clear and distinct ideas , a sort of bogus science that you as a scientist would see through more quickly than people like me .
9 Although these had seen their origin in the reign of Henry IV , it was to be in his son 's brief reign that something of a revolution ( whose effects , however , were not to last ) took place .
10 But I would n't wish anybody er to get the idea that we as a union wish to take away what really is the parliamentary privilege that members of parliament have got to have to look after their own constituencies in addition to being sponsored members of parliament .
11 Well it 's nothing to do with the working really , ma , it 's the fact that they with A facing you the spool is ready to run .
12 ‘ Not to mention the fact that someone in a protective white suit might just attract the wrong kind of attention , ’ Graham added between mouthfuls .
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