Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 2 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 3 | There are 5 arm spines obscured by thick skin ; when denuded they appear glossy and quite rugose with large secondary points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 4 | With Becker in last night 's form , it 's doubtful if even Courier at his very best could have lived him . |
| 5 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 6 | To begin with I found the playing a little mannered , although I soon became involved in the thoughtful and musicianly approach of these artists . |
| 7 | Being a Special is unpaid and therefore commitment to the job is all important . |
| 8 | Erm so who do we put into the suggestion of perhaps you will look at that with a very serious and maybe sort of er or by to take seventy three million . |
| 9 | The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country . |
| 10 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 11 | Najibullah , the PDPA general secretary since May 1986 and hitherto Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Presidium , was on Nov. 30 , 1987 , elected by the Loya Jirga as President of the Republic and C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces for a ( renewable ) seven-year term [ ibid . ] . |
| 12 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 13 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 14 | Any individual is at liberty to visit the offices of the local planning authority and ask to see the monthly or bimonthly list of planning applications that have been submitted . |
| 15 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 16 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 17 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 18 | Water condition : Soft and slightly acid to slightly alkaline , with up to 10 DH and a pH of 6.6–7.6 |
| 19 | Just get hold of the aerial and just sort of twist it round and see if you can a good enough picture . |
| 20 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 21 | The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice . |
| 22 | The Ferguson-developed 4wd system , which directs power between the front and rear wheels in a fixed 34/66 per cent ratio , is effective and durable but hardly state of the art . |
| 23 | Any Rough or Not sheet of paper as opposed to an HP surface . |
| 24 | Comparative studies in volunteers have shown that activated charcoal is better than either syrup of ipecacuanha or gastric lavage in reducing drug absorption . |
| 25 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 26 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 27 | Marsha I 'm going along to the chip shop and I 'm going to McDonalds and get a drink , na , I 'm gon na have to stay , how much , how much the chips ? , sixty P and how much is milk shake ? , one pound , that 's one pound sixty and then money for sweets after school |
| 28 | On Oct. 5 the principal nationalist candidate Lennart Meri , Foreign Minister until March 1992 and subsequently ambassador to Finland , was elected President by the Parliament , the Riigikogu . |
| 29 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 30 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |