Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Neither my brothers or sister or I have any children , ’ said Pakeezah when her mother had finished telling the story .
2 Wilkinson , who has cajoled and bullied to knock Cantona into shape , joked that the language barrier is still there because ‘ If I 'm saying nice things about him he seems to understand — if I suggest he works harder or I say nasty things , he finds that harder to comprehend . ’
3 Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter .
4 Electronics designers will need to follow some rules of thumb , many of which will be familiar , such as mains filtration , adopting a sensible grounding policy , minimising ground impedance , minimising cable lengths , screening cables which are carrying high frequency , large magnitude signals or which contain sensitive signals , and grouping cables to separate the sensitive from the interfering .
5 Certain medical conditions , such as being HIV positive , or which need particular kinds of medication , may make breastfeeding inadvisable .
6 VARIABLES — Characteristics , attributes or qualities that can vary in magnitude among individual cases or which have different categories are referred to as variables in statistical analyses where , usually , their relationship ( for example , between education of mothers and the number of children ever born to them ) is studied .
7 In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of .
8 In a place like mine anybody who knows my patch you , you know old or you know certain parts of or you know certain parts of .
9 You get , or you get two cars of equal speed , along straight
10 After a while you get when you first start the first time you ever ride a two wheeler and you have someone holding it or you have some stabilizers on till you know what you 're doing .
11 You then put another layer of filters on , which is that if you have got to choose , you choose content areas which are very important to Britain , or you choose content areas which the camera can communicate best .
12 One would not want to suggest that the academics who contribute to the New Accents series ( or who write similar texts ) can not read French with ease .
13 People who have infected sores , such as boils or styes , or who have diarrhoeal conditions , should not prepare food , especially when it is to be distributed to large numbers .
14 Similar observations could be made about front-line paraprofessionals in all the countries we studied who are drawn from local communities or who share common experiences and characteristics with client groups .
15 Or they use minor sorceries , ’ said Caspar .
16 Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists .
17 Now one would think that er they would go out of business because no-one would want to live there , but as a result of government policy , which has meant that Council houses are n't available to people any more , because a local authority is n't allowed to build them ; people actually have the choice : they either are homeless and on the streets or they pay exorbitant rents for appalling accommodation .
18 They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called .
19 But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things .
20 And I get these pains in my stomach .
21 I only have to go a few quid over and I get snooty letters threatening to take it off me .
22 Just minding me own business and I get fucking things thrown at me , timesheet ripped timecard cut .
23 Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place .
24 I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything
25 Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ?
26 And I like Gobi ki Sabji and chips and fish , that 's all .
27 ‘ John and I like different sorts of holidays , ’ he said .
28 Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report .
29 Well they could address their letters to myself Councillor David Poole or Councillor Stuart Argyle to the Council House erm the suggestion you know er their the thoughts the thoughts on this what er they could er erm help us in our campaign and also about the leaf stem as well if they want to write to me at the Council House suggesting and I mean proper places to where it should go because that 's really up to County Council but er at least if I had some suggestions we can pass them over to the County Council where where it could go .
30 He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’
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