Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foo saw the waves as a watery pyre , where he would in due course achieve martyrdom . |
| 2 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 3 | " I really have n't any particular interest in the sale , except that I want to do the best that I can for this retired artist , Sam Mills , " he said . |
| 4 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 5 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 6 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , Jules could not have been serious in his suggestion that she might for one single instant consider becoming Monsieur 's mistress . |
| 8 | ‘ But … but I love you ! ’ she cried , suddenly coming out of the trance in which she had been imprisoned , and desperately anxious that she should in some way communicate her feelings for him . |
| 9 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 10 | But wisely Mrs Christie saw that she would have much more difficulty seeing the world through juvenile spectacles than she would through Belgian ones . |
| 11 | give the same protection and employment rights that you would to other employees who have problems related to other forms of ill-health |
| 12 | I take it from the nature of your answer that you would in any event agree that none of those other factors which you concern yourself with have any relevance as to whether or not the land performs a greenbelt function ? |
| 13 | And now put mm now think of something that you could times that adds up to three hundred and sixty . |
| 14 | And this is where the second proposal is , that , there is again confusion between having a joint pol erm , a , erm , a joint policy group at chief officer level , and J C P T , and that again those should as it were combined , but that the arrangement could be s could be erm , kept as small and tight to encourage effective action as you move into joint commissioning , and that is bringing your budget alongside that of the Health Authority , and would be the best way to get erm , the best leverage on services that you can across that divide . |
| 15 | Nobody can suggest that you can by any arithmetical calculation establish what is the exact sum of money which would represent such a thing as the pain and suffering which a person has undergone by reason of an accident … |
| 16 | You are there to do a damage limitation exercise , to do the best that you can in difficult circumstances . |
| 17 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 18 | This is a much more significant practice than you might at first think , because the etche or house is the fundamental unit of Basque society , symbolizing the continuity of the family line and of the patrimony . |
| 19 | You can learn more about make-up from a quick snoop in a friend 's bathroom than you can from any other source . |
| 20 | Obviously , you will need much heavier tackle when fishing in snaggy water than you will in open water . |
| 21 | Although we may in this way gain in explanatory capacity , there are several important disadvantages associated with a participant observation study . |
| 22 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 23 | We also have in the area a tremendous number of new houses which have never been contacted by us or for by any political party and I would hope that we might be able to do er something about the area behind the church there is er an area that comes to mind which could well be fruitful , and I would hope that we might during this year get er some kind of literature out to these places apart from election literature . |
| 24 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
| 25 | and what I concern myself with now is that this sort of thing is becoming too obvious in the area , this kind of development , this kind of an infringement in villages , looking for , somebody 's got to make a stand against it , er and I hope that we shall in this Parish Council |
| 26 | I do not believe that we could in any event disclose the existence of the GEN groups . |
| 27 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 28 | This illustrates a central concern of this book , that we should at all times view old people as playing a part in the drama of life , not as passive onlookers . |
| 29 | for the very simple reason that we will at most have one franchise in er nineteen ninety four , ninety five |
| 30 | We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves . |