Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] in [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts are made to teach them German but in practice it is easier to teach the factory foreman enough Turkish to communicate with them . |
| 2 | ‘ In winter it 's warm and in summer it 's cool , can you explain that ? |
| 3 | This sounds very bland but in practice it is complicated by the fact that what is nice for one person is nasty for another and vice versa . |
| 4 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 5 | Er and that showed er in fact when we reported to members in July of this year , we were seeking from them er an indication as to the priority of the phasing because prior to that and in fact it 's reflected in the structure plan , we simply have a a scheme for A fifty nine , A sixty one relief roads , they 're not broken down into the two schemes . |
| 6 | Okay , somebody suggested that the communication essay or which reflects the communication model w in the hand book it says that you 've had input from linguists , er sociologists , psychologists and people like that and in fact you have n't |
| 7 | And if er when you arrive on an assignment every assignment has a new one of these and in fact it 's a blank . |
| 8 | For when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 9 | Carey addressed the wealthy directly , quoting Jesus ' parable about the sorting of the goats ( the wealthy ) from the sheep ( the poor ) in St Matthew 's gospel : ‘ The curse is upon you … for when I was hungry you gave me nothing to eat , when thirsty nothing to drink ; when I was a stranger you gave me no home , when naked you did not clothe me ; when I was ill and in prison you did not come to my help . ’ |
| 10 | The concept of the student with a broad scientific base is fine but in practice it does not work . |
| 11 | That sounds fine but in practice it means that people from black and ethnic groups get a raw deal because their particular problems are seldom acknowledged . |
| 12 | Your comment that there should be ‘ a clear distinction between medicolegal intervention requested by the police and health care ’ may be an ideal but in practice it is often difficult if not impossible to distinguish clearly between the two . |
| 13 | I carried the coffee jug and filter and two cups back into the living-room and put them down on my coffee table , which sounds posh but in fact it doubles as a dining table , poker table and ironing-board . |
| 14 | through that but in total we are . |
| 15 | The other on population and housing , erm has been delayed in being sent to the printers , in order that we might incorporate some of the erm information from last year er so that the document would be thereby erm even more er immediately useful and in consequence it wo n't be available until either the end of the month or the very beginning of February , but er progress is on a is in hand on that er that 's all I wanted to say to you . |
| 16 | What 's the going going to be like tonight because all the snow 's disappeared and in fact you 've been running through the snow anyway . |
| 17 | In detail the class system is complex but in essence it is simple : the major division is still between capital and labour . |
| 18 | Parliament is sovereign and in theory it can give the task of determining the legal meaning of whatsoever it chooses to whomsoever it likes . |
| 19 | Er and that 's what missing and in fact we 've now got a balance figure at the end there but er I 'm not too sure what it means . |
| 20 | At one point you know , there was no point buying wheat from the United States , alright , because although they had a comparative advantage in production , the costs of transportation were prohibitive and in essence we can produce it cheaper over here than the er , the import cost of foreign produced wheat . |
| 21 | If you are disabled or in firm you are entitled to free home nursing visits and free chiropody . |
| 22 | The reciprocity is asymmetrical and in consequence it has a proclivity for extending outwards into a network . |
| 23 | Physically the brothers had much in common but in personality it seemed they were very different . |
| 24 | By and large most cognitive processes are a mixture of the two and in fact it depends on the context that you 're operating them in , we tend to be able to split from one to the other . |
| 25 | I have already quoted Mrs in her statement brackets C forty eight , saying although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept the last six years have taken their toll on us both and in reality it 's unlikely that we will continue to be able to provide the same level of care and outside is required , unquote . |
| 26 | And what Mao is saying is quotes such talk may sound plausible but in fact it 's wrong . |
| 27 | Salt in itself is not bad but in excess it stimulates the adrenals , encourages hypertension , arteriosclerosis and the retention of water in fatty tissue ( cellulite ) . |