Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] words [pers pn] [am/are] " in BNC.
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1 | By asking the pupils to construct lists of similar words you are affirming the underlying logic of English spelling — that there are patterns and families , that particular sounds may have different ways of being written down , but that there are only a limited number of ways , and they do actually obey certain rules . |
2 | Some of these words you 're much more likely to use are n't you . |
3 | In other words we are not talking about subtle errors of judgement , but major fumbles , demonstrations of serious incompetence . |
4 | Because of our own cultural heritage , we think in terms of things like the construction of permanent artefacts and the invention of useful tools like writing and mathematics — in other words we are , essentially , technologically oriented . |
5 | In other words we 're going back after three or four years . |
6 | In other words they are continuing to operate in their separate ways , largely untouched one by the other . |
7 | The Famous Grouse , like all the 1991 World Cup sponsors , had a first refusal option included in their contract ; in other words they are asked to make a bid for 1995 before the marketing agent goes to the open market . |
8 | In other words they are guilty until proven innocent . |
9 | For example , psychedelic elements in the musical style — blurred or tinkly timbres , for instance — are typically interpreted as such by reference to a subculture of drug usage ; in other words they are defined in this way primarily because hippies said they should be . |
10 | In other words they are independent of the time an individual has spent acquiring a competence or how that competence was achieved ( training course , learning on the job , etc . ) |
11 | In other words they are being totally unfair in that process and as a result of this more people are likely to suffer as a result of fire Council and savings which are clearly er is proposed er that is Conservative review that we should not be using new money or money within the environment budget which is better stretched for all the other services , to find that other fire fighters as much as we agree they are needed when clearly there is another pot of money which was available for this service and which the other two groups have decided they will take |
12 | In other words they are responsible for what happens on the trains or what or happens on the r railways , what happens o in in the stations . |
13 | The people who make these panels are closely related to estate agents , in other words they are a lower life-form . |
14 | In other words they 're going to ask their body to do less and less and less . |
15 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
16 | So they 're saying this is an ex gratia payment in other words they 're offering you that payment as er some compensation for the fact that you 've losing your job . |
17 | So in other words they 're gon na bring its new place ? |
18 | I am concerned largely with laying a basis for this by first determining the general patterns of language variation and social variation in which changes in progress may then be discovered — in other words I am concerned with the embedding of language variation in society . |
19 | in other words I 'm trying to work out why this is spiritual lives and not spiritual lives you know there must be some reason why |
20 | In other words you are looking at actions . |
21 | In other words you are putting undue strain on your machine . |
22 | So Mr Silver … in other words you are saying Leeds have their price . |
23 | So Mr Silver … in other words you are saying Leeds have their price . |
24 | The first one is methoxy propate in other words you 're saying , effectively , this group here was n't the longest chain you can get is a propate . |
25 | So in other words you 're covered by the , well you 're covered by both the Sale of Goods Act and the Trade Descriptions Act . |
26 | ‘ In other words you 're running away , ’ he said flatly . |
27 | In other words you 're you 're leaving you 're both leaving together . |