Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the press , the loosening of the relationship with politicians produced a dilemma : it aspired to greatness as the fourth estate and as an institution for political enlightenment yet it had to pursue the mass audience in order to survive commercially . |
| 2 | Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide . |
| 3 | And not getting stuff for each other so I hope she has n't been out and done it all . |
| 4 | I went to only had er there was about between twenty five and thirty in each year and there was only form for each year so I say |
| 5 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 6 | did any of them have symptoms during that time when they had recurrences , that brought them back ? |
| 7 | During that time though I still kept contact with the market and the market traders on a Saturday , and a Thursday , if possible , after I 'd finished , remembering the market stayed open till nine o'clock at night . |
| 8 | I think this is quite realistic except during that period when you are ‘ in love ’ , which I think is a hysterical state where you ca n't even bear for your lover to go to the loo without you going too . |
| 9 | And probably be an idea if you remind me sometime during that week when I 'm due to see you . |
| 10 | During adolescent years when we face the responsibilities of adulthood and the prospect of choosing a career and making a living in the world . |
| 11 | Just gon na wait for that space Normally I 'm lucky to get round here . |
| 12 | said , if I ca n't come for that typewriter then I 've sold it , he said I , I told her if she wanted it she 'd got to come and collect it and he said and nobody asked for it , I said well I know |
| 13 | I was convinced that something had happened in our absence ; something had indeed happened — it had rained hard during the night and early morning — which was strange for that summer when we had a period of almost drought conditions . |
| 14 | As I understand the allocations , they do n't seek to differentiate between different types of employment within the business use class , erm and for that reason equally I would regard that submission that it 's an unacceptable approach as as invalid . |
| 15 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 16 | For that reason alone it is important to come to terms with the factors that are causing anxiety and lack of peace within our minds . |
| 17 | Language is as old as consciousness , language is practical consciousness that exists also for other men , and for that reason alone it really exists for me personally as well ; language like consciousness , only arises from the need , the necessity of intercourse with other men . |
| 18 | Like " freedom " , " equality " , " justice " , " human rights ' , and so forth , " democracy " is a term which , whatever its precise meaning , will always signify for many a cherished political principle or Ideal , and for that reason alone it is never likely to achieve a single agreed meaning . |
| 19 | Alan Rough has given more to Scottish football than he could ever take and for that reason alone he stands on the terraces of Hampden Babylon like a colossus . |
| 20 | For that reason alone I feel able to say that the decision of the justices was wrong and that therefore this court is able to substitute its own discretion . |
| 21 | And for that reason alone I would say that erm Policy E two is necessary and should be included . |
| 22 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 23 | If K is the equilibrium constant for that reaction then we can actually redefine our terms such that the concentration of hydrogen ions will be K multiplied by the concentration of hydrogen bicarbonate ions over the concentration of bicarbonate ions . |
| 24 | Right , now if you do n't interact right you 're not gon na get a result and if the customer does not interact with you , then you 're not gon na get a result , right , now if you assume that as you 're working your way through that appointment that your enthusiasm is passing across to the customer or anybody else who is in the room , right , right , but through that interaction right you 're working towards a result , now if you go and come out of that office , about his , with a result , you 'll know you 'll know what you 're getting next week or next month you got ta I mean the customer 's got ta be at the |
| 25 | If you are worried about this problem then it is worth knowing that the radiation decreases in strength very rapidly with distance and most of it comes out of the back of the monitor . |
| 26 | Apparently she 's got a problem that the oil pollution is coming off this site where they 're refurbishing the boilers . |
| 27 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 28 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 29 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |
| 30 | About half way back it happened : he stopped , sat down quickly in the middle of the road , and was very sick . |