Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed a wife for professional reasons and I was it . |
| 2 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 3 | There are already law faculties which offer an extended course for European languages and I do believe that the expertise is available to set up more of such centres . |
| 4 | Formal links between sentences and between clauses are known as cohesive devices and they can be dealt with under the headings in 2.2 to 2.8 . |
| 5 | To a certain extent turnover follows that of the cash market in government securities : it rose in 1987 following the start of the new trading arrangements for gilt-edged securities and it fell in 1988 and 1989 when government accounts moved into surplus and there was a cessation of new issues . |
| 6 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 7 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 8 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 9 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 10 | After National Service in the RAF , he worked for for eight years and it was during this time that he came in contact with , whilst the Belfast mill was being refurbished . |
| 11 | Much has been written about the need for multi-disciplinary approaches but we would prefer to support those who view their research problems without constraints on scientific discipline . |
| 12 | Mrs Hellyer knew all about weak men and she did not include Martin Bean in that category . |
| 13 | Melody sounded as though she was speaking through chattering teeth and he climbed the ladder , carefully balancing pie and ale . |
| 14 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |
| 15 | for that things but I suppose right enough . |
| 16 | Gail was then a nursing supervisor of an Overseas Missionary Fellowship Home for retired missionaries and I was pursuing a high flying career selling shoes . |
| 17 | Minor characters like Miss Skiffins , Wopsle , the Aged Parent and Clara Barley are mostly brought into the novel through light-hearted scenes and they are n't included in the actual story , only as comical characters — for light relief . |
| 18 | We are concerned about some issues and we may wish to raise them again later in the Bill 's progress to safeguard the position of all nurses throughout the 1990s . |
| 19 | There is no need for further tableaux and we see that P1/T2 is optimal for θ up to ⅕ , P1/T3 between ⅕ and 3 and P1/T4 for larger values of θ . |
| 20 | The unit is to return to Darlington next year for further checks and it is hoped the scheme will be extended to younger women in the future . |
| 21 | This will generate capital for further developments and we can almost guarantee market dominance for a very long time . ’ |
| 22 | Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant . |
| 23 | I 'd like your recommendations for the best boiling , baking , roasting , chipping potatoes , three or four for different purposes but I 'm going to ask Walter to comment on the question first of all ? |
| 24 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 25 | You will be liable for lesser amounts but you may insure against this ( see ‘ Loss of Damage Insurance ’ under ‘ Yacht Options ’ ) . |
| 26 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 27 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 28 | Darlington juvenile court gave the girl a conditional discharge for 12 months and she was warned to stay out of trouble . |
| 29 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 30 | I have worked in adult education for 12 years and I am proud , like the education spokesman for the Social and Liberal Democrats and , I think , the Leader of the Opposition , to be a vice-president of the Workers Educational Association . |