Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ?
2 He was thinking about that when the doorbell rang and he admitted Captain Jack Carter .
3 I mean how can you justify talking to her about that when the efficiency is improved since she has n't been talking to people ?
4 ‘ Well , ’ Merrill said weakly , ‘ we 'll think about that when the time comes . ’
5 Possibly the twenties costumes would n't be too kind to Therese , but they 'd do something about that when the time came .
6 Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times .
7 Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration .
8 If you , if you put down the letter for people like this , sort of , I would of done one of two things , I 'd would get really nark about that and the way they give you what you want
9 If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas .
10 The panel is still considering the divisional schools library service erm the , they 're very clear is at to whether these costs to the library is a fixed cost or a variable cost or perhaps even more to the point that it will need to reach the cost of libraries are fixed and variable and the differing views both within the panel and schools about that and the panel is continuing deliberating research .
11 Both of these can be avoided by delegating nursery schools on a similar basis to the delegation which was made for ordinary schools and again you consulted about that and the proposal laid in this report .
12 Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill
13 and manufacturing exports have increased by £76 million for each and every working day .
14 Is my hon. Friend aware that the tyranny that controls education in Nottinghamshire holds back £10 or more for each and every child above that national average , that it is somewhere around two thirds of the way down the merit table for putting resources where they belong — at the school — and sits on about £3 million at the centre , which is the same as holding back £5,000 for every school in the county ?
15 Yet an individual or government possessing the qualifications of being white , European in cultural origin and liberal-democratic by conviction will be remorselessly and unreasonably criticized for each and every offence against the supposedly absolute standards of protest-morality .
16 The critic 's skill is to identify for each and every work just what the various priorities are , and apply those criteria uniformly to every version .
17 While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation .
18 For schemes where the benefit is X months benefit for each and every claim the payments should be suspended during periods when the claimant is in temporary employment .
19 Presumably not : but it would be a very bold man , a Karl Marx indeed who would assert that , for each and every woman and always , housework is her spontaneous activity , that it is the satisfaction of a need ; or that she fulfils herself in it ; or that through it she develops freely a physical and mental energy and will not be physically exhausted and mentally debased .
20 Fiction reflects the changes in the concept of honour , personal or institutional , sorting out the basic scruples of conscience and the natural feelings of compassion and devotion which must be newly defined for each and every period in time .
21 Preference is for each and every page to bear the ‘ watermark ’ legend draft .
22 Between 1861 and the beginning of 1863 the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Internal Affairs ran censorship jointly .
23 Also , the program has knowledge of qualitative physical principles relevant to its actual tasks , such as that if an object sticks out too far it will fall , and that it will pivot around the support point nearest to the centre of gravity .
24 The volume seems about right but the shape is quite wrong .
25 I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning .
26 A buyer needs to be kept informed about each and every detail that crops up during the course of the transaction and , immediately prior to exchange of contracts , it is good practice to supply a written report to the buyer , explaining precisely what the property entails in a legal sense .
27 When they occur , your catalogue and reference list will point this out — you really can not know too much about each and every rose in your garden .
28 In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay .
29 For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over .
30 But he is prepared to act as consultant for corporate clients like Mars in order to be able , for little or no money , to advise clients like Greenpeace or the China Appeal , Michael Manley and the Jamaican government , the National Council for Civil Liberties and the opposition parties in the 1989 Hungarian elections , on their communications and advertising strategies .
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