Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 2 | In the past thirty years , astrophysicists have discovered dust clouds , radio signals , X-rays , electric and magnetic fields in supposedly empty space , and it is now realised that there is as much energy/matter between the stars as there is contained in them and in all the planets as well . |
| 3 | It also does n't have to be a particularly fast drive because spreadsheets read the data into memory once when you start using them and after that the speed of the disk has no effect . |
| 4 | We are grateful to him and to all the other people who serve on the advisory board of the know-how fund . |
| 5 | Natural phenomena intrigued him and in particular the ‘ waterspouts ’ — which we now call flash-floods so frequent in very wet weather . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks be to God , ’ was all that Julia said , but Anne knew how much the news meant to her and to all the family . |
| 7 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 8 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 9 | Finally he took the bass part of some airs of Handel … and played the most beautiful melody on it and in such a manner that everyone was amazed . |
| 10 | For example , the West Glamorgan consumer protection department deals with the problems of the local small shopkeepers and the Office of Fair Trading collates information from it and from all the other consumer departments so that it can identify whether there is a general abuse that needs remedial action . |
| 11 | Let us give thanks for our homes and for our families , for the people who care for us and look after us and for all the comforts we enjoy . |