Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [n mass] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're not oh that sometimes presents a problem but quite honestly er if you 've if you 've still got some contacts in sales we 're you know . |
| 2 | Although deep-freezing has revolutionised the way food is preserved , with some kinds of fish I still prefer the old method of salting and sun drying . |
| 3 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 4 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
| 5 | Then I did n't anticipate , I was yanked out of the back of the court , I 'd gone there to see some proceedings with people I was involved with and all of a sudden the barrister for the defendant said , is a Mr in court ? |
| 6 | I 've been interested at the strength of comments made to be on similar lines by people I thought out-and-out-royalists . |
| 7 | Apart from needing to know varying amounts about the office , status , role , and personal details of people we are communicating with , we also need to form hypotheses about the degree of knowledge we share with them and the degree to which the schemata they are operating correspond with our own . |
| 8 | Now he was not only unable to remember the names of politicians , sportsmen and television personalities , he also found his memory was unable to supply the personal details of people he had known since he was a child . |
| 9 | And if you do buy a couple of tiny sprigs for £1 it 's likely to be French mistletoe . |
| 10 | On joint assets of £4m he would retain £2.7m or so . |
| 11 | Supercomputing — High-performance computers costing millions of pounds can not be sited at every university that needs their computational power ; Yet the vast amounts of data they produce require advanced data visualisation techniques for their human understanding . |
| 12 | In ascribing psychological states to people we rationalize their behaviour , employing the standards of rationality explained by logic ( see 5.266 — 82 ) . ) |
| 13 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 14 | A man who carried out a series of indiscriminate attacks on people he thought were students has been jailed for seven years . |
| 15 | If we lose our grip on this , if it gets away from us , we 'll be very unhappy , very embarrassed , and very much in debt to all sorts of people we prefer to control rather than be controlled by . |
| 16 | No more ‘ family sagas ’ , but a return to detective stories , police crime and ‘ good stories about people you care about ’ . |
| 17 | does really brilliant figures of people you know . |
| 18 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 19 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 20 | One view of the future of work is that large firms will not employ the enormous numbers of people they employ today . |
| 21 | Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well . |
| 22 | I 've had a letter and er there 's various lists of people you might all have got one eventually , I do n't know , but it 's from the university engineer . |
| 23 | There are several sources of fish you may care to explore : |
| 24 | There are several decisions about livestock I want to take while Father is here to advise me , and I must persuade him to come with me to Bodmin market on Thursday . |
| 25 | Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up . |
| 26 | There are , however , two groups of people we do n't keep waiting : the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise . |
| 27 | Nigel gave Margaret Dulally several other books by people he hated as well , while his editor was away , saying that a line or two on each would be enough . |
| 28 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 29 | When distressed , black people naturally resist accepting help in frightening institutional settings from people they do not trust . |
| 30 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |