Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Only last week , the last time I sat in court er there was an instance of one individual who had had twelve cautions in a period of eight months er he was still a youth so his name obviously can not be divulged , erm and it 's not only the cautions , I wonder how many warnings he 'd received as well . |
2 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
3 | for a variety of different contracts er my last presentation was a site meeting last Thursday |
4 | But a lot of these youngsters er you know . |
5 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
6 | Well , my son Andrew was involved with some of these discussions erm What I did n't learn firsthand , myself , I learnt secondhand from him . |
7 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
8 | Now , we while you 're here you know wha just to sort of ten minutes erm I mean Ian 's produced these sheets |
9 | And two of those types er you can they can possible be functions . |
10 | We will spare the blushes of those forecasters ' who notched up the biggest errors . |
11 | And there are lots of other ones erm you could , you could , you could make as well . |
12 | Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two . |
13 | Page sixteen structural maintenance of local roads erm I know that there is some possibility that er groups will propose an increase er a reduction in in that area and to increase the contribution from the management reserve fund . |
14 | I 've only gone since er , erm you know I say Michael 'd be seventeen you know , it must be like twenty years er you know . |
15 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
16 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
17 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
18 | My Lords , I do n't think co-option is satisfactory under these circumstances er I think my erm th the Noble Lord has a good route er has a good number but a bad route and that my Noble Friend is in the position to propose a good route er if he will get the right number . |
19 | Well I know with two ladies th their daughters wanted to , them to go the house and they would n't . |
20 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
21 | Particularly striking examples , as Simon Frith points out ( 1983a : 146–7 , 154 ) , are that some of the ‘ most creative uses of the recording studio have also been the most ‘ manipulative ’ in commercial terms ' he mentions Phil Spector , Giorgio Moroder 's disco hits and Jamaican reggae — while ‘ in the USA … the most open and imaginative audiences deejays and radio programmes work in disco , the most obviously commercialized musical genre ’ . |
22 | Erm I 'm not so sure that in some cases er it , it 's to our members benefit . |
23 | So perhaps in some ways er we would deduce from this that the the motive of the revolutionaries in sixty eight was in perhaps to some extent to complete what had been started in seventeen eighty nine but not finished and somebody would , Clinton presumably he would say I 'm gon na complete the programme that John F Kennedy started , but was unable to finish because the tragic way in which his career was ended . |
24 | Well in in in in in in some ways erm I 've I 've I 've covered er some some of that point by referring to the to the importance of the construction industry . |
25 | In some ways wh I , I , I heard , I was listening to a description on Saturday at the serials and I must admit I thought to myself mm |
26 | It 's not something that I can deal with in these orders er I 'm afraid that er there was a decision within the community which was then er made part of the nineteen seventy six E C direct elections act . |
27 | Erm but in these days erm I think that managements were in the main er fairly well off as far as employees ' attitudes were concerned . |
28 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
29 | There there are disciplinary procedures in in all schools erm which are there to be used . |
30 | and they er as in many countries erm there is a very high incidence of er of death through death driving erm amongst young people and in America each state has a different er age in which you 're allowed to consume alcohol . |