Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 2 | Using professional public relations agencies it buys their expertise and contacts to produce high quality slots featuring nationally famous personalities to promote the library nationally . |
| 3 | In some police divisions I know there are no soldiers . ’ |
| 4 | In some police stations we 've identified criminals actually stand more chance of being cautioned than prosecuted . |
| 5 | In their recent social services letter they announce that the new 1993 fund will consider applications only from people who have not first been in touch with their SSDs . |
| 6 | When I started discussions with the social services department I had an open mind about the service to be delivered . |
| 7 | In the course of researching extra material for Pursuit in the Public Records Office I made one lucky and quite unexpected find . |
| 8 | In a BBC Radio 4 programme about the civil rights movement he said : |
| 9 | Outside the incongruous police trailer she paused and knocked smartly on the door . |
| 10 | My guess is that they meant to come back , only with so much police activity they did n't like to risk it . ’ |
| 11 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
| 12 | Opposite Maples Hotel he stood to wait , patient again , the name of the hotel a colourless , polished wood , and it 's colourless quiet front stung him like a glance of polite disdain . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 14 | Even er the breaking of dough was done with a lot of mang a little wringers thing you know . |
| 15 | As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon . |
| 16 | This constructivist notion of phantasy is understood by Klein as the primary basis for all symbolic processes , whereas for later object-relations theorists it becomes a kind of false consciousness , or misapprehension of the real world . |
| 17 | people not necessarily anything to do with visual impairments paper you know |
| 18 | As a result of the current devolution in favour of the regions , the Arts Council will be directly funding only about half the 170 arts bodies it funded in 1991 . |
| 19 | All this equal rights tosh we have had to endure surely is at an end . |
| 20 | The roughest police treatment he got , it seems , was in the West . |
| 21 | He is said to come into his own behind closed doors when giving Prime Ministers advice they do not want to hear — in the politest possible way . |
| 22 | Although our patient is only 6 months post-transplantation he has had a remarkably trouble free postoperative course , and immunosuppression with FK506 has probably contributed to this good early result . |
| 23 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 24 | At the Slavonic Studies reunion I met several current undergraduates from Campion ; Russian is now compulsory for all first-years at the School . |
| 25 | ‘ I jus ' take everyfing to 'im an' give 'im all those sheets wiv me totals on , an' 'e works it all out . |
| 26 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 27 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 28 | About a between ten and fifteen minutes drive I suppose . |
| 29 | About erm , between ten and fifteen minutes drive I suppose , ten minutes perhaps . |
| 30 | As commander of uniform operations department he had responsibility for areas such as traffic , dogs , crime prevention and public relations . |