Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 2 | You would if it was a proper division sum but you 've actually put the equals sign there . |
| 3 | public liability insurance but you see we can |
| 4 | It was it was very , it was very sixteen year olds find this hard when they 're doing the , the high level stuff but it 's no good giving you the easy stuff cos you 're both very bright , both very clever and it 's no good saying , well what , does anyone know what one add two is is it ? |
| 5 | Well it 's another Vauxhall ad but it does n't make sense buy a Nova with a good deal or very little . |
| 6 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 7 | I have a six-month-old German shepherd dog but he is under my constant control when there are children around . |
| 8 | Becau Because I forgot That was the day I was thinking of having a proper lunch party but I wo n't do it if you 're going out . |
| 9 | We did offer him some ice cream but he said no thank you . |
| 10 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 11 | He looked as if he would like to sear her with another acid remark but he remained silent , as she did , apart from a few non-committal remarks , all through dinner . |
| 12 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 13 | Now , Muze magazine may not have been a high profile organisation but it did provide a much needed platform for the flourishing Manchester rock scene . |
| 14 | Well , I mean , we have a different costing form but we have costing forms . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry to go on about this BBC thing but it does seem important to me . ’ |
| 16 | The 28-year-old champion was booed after taking a points decision over Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the Scottish Exhibition Centre but he said : ‘ They are the mugs , not me . ’ |
| 17 | Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted . |
| 18 | and you know , tonight , tonight , tonight I wanted to , I wanted to have a knock about with my old sparring partner but he 's ill , he 's very ill from what I 've heard tonight and he should go see a doctor . |
| 19 | A registered charity , all dogs and prospective owners are vetted and this accounts for the high success rate but it must be kept in mind that people who need to find a new home for their dog usually have a problem , or a problem dog . |
| 20 | Medics might bemoan the lack of any broad initiative in public health policy but they could point to this expanding area of research as a mark of contemporary achievements . |
| 21 | General Holland M. Smith , USMC , has written of one Pacific raid that ‘ it was a spectacular performance by ( the ) 2nd Marine Raider Battalion but it was a pure piece of folly . |
| 22 | I do n't know if it tells you how much this production cost but I know it said something about , oh the one thing |
| 23 | The live Genesis compilation from this year 's world tour covers a shorter time span but it at least has an unusual , if clumsy , title — The Way We Walk , Volume 1 : The Shorts . |
| 24 | Anyway they said what else would they like and they had some , a set of luggage , well it 's only this nylon stuff but it was very useful for them to take away with them it did a bit of good the and I , I put in this letter I shall no longer order , I shall what was it ? |
| 25 | I 'd always guessed Nicola had a rich fantasy life but I 'd never guessed it was quite that rich , ’ she snorted derisively . |
| 26 | I know it is , it 's not exactly doing a lot for me either but er cos it gets raised every bloody management meeting but I think having discussed the matter we 've actually opened ourselves out a few more options than we probably thought we had |
| 27 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 28 | So you 've got the you 've got the three things the the the financial speaker is really coming here in a commercial way but with no hard sell in the hope that you will become er one of their clients for individual investment advice but you need n't do so . |
| 29 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
| 30 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |