Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just like to say that you can have two mothers and that you can two mothers quite happily , and that when you talk about women having the right to reproductive technology that includes single women , lesbians , not just heterosexual women . |
| 2 | In terms of offering prisoners a range of opportunities to address their offending behaviour and to take up erm an interest or activity which will channel them into other activities , I think at the moment we do less of a good job than we will two years down the line , I think the emphasis now is very much on opportunity and responsibility |
| 3 | WE can lay pipe cheaper than we could 15 years ago , I agree , but are we still making the best use of new technology . |
| 4 | The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts . |
| 5 | Hosiers were accused of making too little allowance for normal waste , so that they could fine knitters whose returned work was lighter than the yarn which had been given out . |
| 6 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't see how I can unless I manage to shift one way or the other , and I need both hands for that . |
| 8 | We can do it , and if you do , I do n't know , say five calls a day , let us say because I 'm not making any rules , erm , if you could six calls day , without any doubt it would increase your sales by twenty percent , it 'd be good that . |
| 9 | Er , my suggestion is actually that er , the suggestion form should be suggestion forms and we must all suggestions to start . |
| 10 | Living rooms that also have to act as office or work room by day ( and more and more people elect to work at home if they can these days ) can still perform both functions with comparative case . |
| 11 | An Observer sale would not make much of a dent but it would staunch losses Lonrho may no longer want to suffer . |