Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in terms of saying there are easy savings to be found in terms of greater efficiencies in this authority I warn you , we are reaching the level unless we actually want in putting a completely unacceptable level of stress on the people who we employ and who universally serve this city very finely and give such a very high level of service . |
| 2 | ‘ Much as I admire your unstructured lifestyle , on the evidence of the knees in those jeans I 'd think twice before I traded bank accounts with you . ’ |
| 3 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 're not on your feet in five seconds I 'll open your leg to the bone . |
| 5 | And why there should be such a change these days in that line I , I , I ca n't quite agree with it . |
| 6 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 7 | During my 17 years in local government I served as the chairman of the finance committee in Ealing . |
| 8 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 9 | Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another . |
| 10 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 11 | To people who seek to follow the Labour party 's proposals in this area I suggest that the new clause demonstrates very deep and very worrying confusion . |
| 12 | Taking orders in this way I do not have to lay out large sums on yarn ; the cones can be bought more or less as required . |
| 13 | ‘ I can speak to subordinates in any fashion I wish — a privilege of rank , which I surely do n't have to tell you about . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , as I 've said before , I have reservations about whether a much increased figure about above the County Council 's er proposal could be accommodated within Ryedale District Council , and I if the figure above that is proposed I would suggest that the extra is accommodated within the new settlement , which I presume the ar argue answer you would have expected from Ryedale , erm Barton Willmore 's figure is based on an assumption that they believe that within Ryedale there is a capacity to increase past building rates , I would refute that , erm the building rates in Southern Ryedale I would suggest were abnormally high , because of the development of Clifton Moor airfield , the North Western part of the Southern Ryedale district , sorry South Western part . |
| 15 | I 'd had visions of various Uulaan delights that I hoped she might join me in , above all the free-fall Orgitunnel , among whose heaving tangle of bodies in simulated zerograv I 've had many memorable experience . |
| 16 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 17 | Well they 're not new blimming , new pict though they 've decorated have n't they , they 've done one coat now , I look like Nora Batty with wrinkles in this tights I told her to phone me from Woking station but she 's probably er |
| 18 | ‘ When I started riding again at the IRTA tests in late February I had not ridden a 500 for five months and that 's too long to be away from a 500 . |
| 19 | It is not a simple case that we can run along , sell a few houses , get the capital receipts and suddenly we can go off and have a wonderful programme and replace the assets which we have sold and when we 're talking about assets in this case I think there 's one crucial difference between us and you and that is we recognise that that is n't just an asset it is a person 's home a person 's home , that 's so important an a I 'm , just to talk about it as if it is is something else , y'know , just some petrified lump of cattle , petrified lump of stock money that was doing no good whatsoever , is a nonsense and I think most of us would agree that it is a complete and utter nonsense . |
| 20 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 21 | No I did n't , luckily , erm my mother 's family , probably the men in that family I had the influence o of of those men and I think that helped a lot . |
| 22 | There 's about six or seven mothers with children in this corridor I see every day . |
| 23 | I have no idea how many voters in this constituency I influenced . |
| 24 | To the old folks in this list I address the following : |
| 25 | For you know I often wonder what sort of morality it is that keeps men from anything but superficial intercourse with any woman but their wives : yet I hate adultery & all the intermediate stages ; and what men of free habits in this way I have known , I have detested . |
| 26 | Even upon the menservants and maidservants In those days I will pour out my Spirit . |