Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 2 | Now I 've done the narration for that and that video is a hundred and twelve action packed minutes about Nottingham in nineteen ninety three . |
| 3 | Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale . |
| 4 | For years , of course , there have been rumours about this and that athlete . |
| 5 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 6 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 7 | Spokesmen make statements but no one comes forward to say , ’ I did it , for this and that reason . ’ |
| 8 | I think , for instance , that it is vain and quite pointless to try to enumerate all the elements that come together in our preference for this or that artist or poet . |
| 9 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 10 | Personal preferences for this or that novel , although clearly visible in the analysis , will be of a purely anecdotal significance . |
| 11 | ‘ Some very clever , very nice and very holy people need to be turned away from internal debates on the relative clap-happiness of church services or the sexual inclinations of the clergy or whether to write letters to the papers campaigning for this or that party in general elections . |
| 12 | The plan contains many elements of the prognosis of the anarchical factor ( e.g. the estimate made of crops , of the amount of grain available as a commodity , the amount of commodities represented by peasant production generally , and consequently , the estimate of prices ) , and this prognosis becomes the starting point for this or that directive . |
| 13 | As a result , the scrutiny of the estimates in the Committee of Supply became a formal vote to reduce the money for this or that department by a nominal figure so as to permit a general attack on the government 's policy in that field . |
| 14 | Private MPs rise and ask for time for this or that motion or debate which they particularly want , but normally the only concessions the Leader of the House will make is through ‘ the usual channels ’ , that is in private discussions with the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 15 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 16 | It is arrived at by calculating the mean of a set of values and measuring the deviation between this and each value . |
| 17 | He responded unenthusiastically to directives issuing from Sir Donald Cameron after 1924 that some system should be found for governing the Masai through their legitimate traditional authorities . |
| 18 | Perhaps there had been a second confrontation after all and another loss of control . |
| 19 | Age Concern believes that Mobility Allowance should be extended to those who become disabled after 65 and that payment should continue regardless of age . |
| 20 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
| 21 | The 1ft. 11½ins. gauge Llanberis Lake Railway opened for passengers in the summer of 1971 and this year , it celebrates its 21st birthday on Sunday , June 14 , and all are invited ! |
| 22 | On 13 September 1991 a secure accommodation order was made by justices , again pursuant to the Act of 1980 and that order was of three months ' duration . |
| 23 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) quote a figure of fifty or more parent figures during the first five years in a residential nursery as being common . |
| 24 | Right over , over a lifetime okay if we could sum this , it seems the time is continuous with the integrate , right , over time , we 'll just get the area of that and that curve . |
| 25 | Leap of Faith will be my third completely straight movie and I want to do more of that and less comedy . |
| 26 | ‘ It will do for starters , ’ Yanto replied , and ordered two pints of half and half cider from the young pleasant-faced landlord . |
| 27 | Declining gastric acid secretion has been considered a consequence of ageing but this view is being reconsidered as the importance of Helicobacter pylori infection to gastroduodenal function is recognised . |
| 28 | Living at just the right distance from things is impossible cos one had to move about in order to know where one is — the principle of 2 or more radar points plotting the position of an object . |
| 29 | And I think there is scope for misunderstanding there , and I think that if those two basic things , if we could learn to do those better , and I say ‘ we ’ because I do n't think anyone has all the answers to these problems , that , that school-parent relationships would , would improve a lot more that way , by doing these basic things better , and being sensitive to the difficulties of , of communication , rather than by trying to do all kinds of new policy things and erect new formal committees of this and that kind . |
| 30 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |