Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] erm " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that 's that 's not in question I just want to know you know try and get a bit of background , I had heard there was a possible problem erm and er how bad it was . |
| 2 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 3 | So it 's not quite as simple to say that regional planning , sub-regional planning requires er a discount a strong discount erm to the south west of York , I think the issue is rightly addressed and we need to address it , but I must say the conversation so far , and and the contributions , really need to be weighted in one direction . |
| 4 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |
| 5 | I think if erm if you can avoid a trunk road then that is a preferable solution erm if you 're able to rely on just County Council roads then that is a better solution . |
| 6 | Erm that i it 's a rural revolution erm it is a , it 's it is a revolution which is being led by the poor and you ca n't dismiss this as , them as being riff- raff , they 're , they are the poor peasants and whether we like it or not they are leading our , our revolution . |
| 7 | So congratulations to Bicester , after the game I managed to catch up with Colin Vynal who scored one of the goals , rather poor quality I 'm afraid , he was on a mobile phone erm a bit of celebration going on , but here 's Colin Vynal of the Bicester Rugby Club . |
| 8 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | I think one can point to another fact which is that Monsieur Mitterand comes from a political party erm which resembles that of his predecessor in being pro-European . |
| 10 | So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on . |
| 11 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 12 | Some of you listen some of you have got a few minutes erm some of you have got a few minutes obviously erm only I 'm not going to start anything . |
| 13 | Erm , well we 've got , I 'll take a few notes erm during this , during the course of our conversation , I 'll take them away , study them in complete confidence and come back to you next week with my recommendations . |
| 14 | I think there 're , there 're a few things erm , I think you asked the question er , Peter , about having eighteen people on one base all got to work together . |
| 15 | Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy . |
| 16 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 17 | So erm I 've got a bit of time also in which to apply for a few things and go and see a few people erm |
| 18 | And are talking about I think more than just a few people erm therefore the s |
| 19 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
| 20 | One may also want to argue that an uncouth manner and a snail-like nose erm are no barrier to the possession of gentle and God-like wisdom . |
| 21 | We 've been around now for two and a half years erm we work as support workers , I suppose , like erm community workers or social workers in some contexts . |
| 22 | Er , what we can do If the figures are worth eleven and a half days erm seventeen , seventeen days . |
| 23 | I think the management thing can be addressed in a different way erm excuse me erm , oh I 've lost my thread now but , oh yeah that 's right |
| 24 | you 'd be expected to , to do a lot of work by yourself , and that 's reflecting the fact that erm you 'll probably have four or five lessons in each of your three subjects , but most people would choose three subjects for A level , and that means that er , when you 're not having lessons , you 've got a lot of time that is not accountable for , you will have been , or going to a general studies period and stuff like that , but there will be a fair number of private study periods , erm , there are some people I think who , who go overboard , and you 've got such a different approach erm from er the lower sixth , people do n't use the time that they have , erm , what I 'm really saying is that if you go into the sixth form and you spend less school time in the sixth form you do n't need to be prepared |
| 25 | And it is it seems to me quite within the realms of possibility that erm highway erm criteria will change and the need for upgrading of the roads would be reviewed and perhaps a different system erm of er judging them er would produce a different set of or a different improvement regime . |
| 26 | Erm , and what and the these er for a different reason erm . |
| 27 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 28 | They are the editors , they 're not the sole authors so each chapter has a different author erm and like all books some are stronger than others but what I would like you to do for the next , by the time we meet next time , that 's on Monday the next lecture , please have read chapters one and two of that book . |
| 29 | Erm it 's it 's erm a further alternative erm in that the attempt has been made to fall in more closely with the county council 's wording erm and yet introduce a more positive tone . |
| 30 | Erm , I do n't think that er , in structural terms therefore a , a change of government would er , make a great deal , a difference , then you come to er , the general effect of a , a change of government er , I think at the moment we 're living in a situation of uncertainty and er , a clear majority erm , for any party would probably from a business point of view erm , remove the uncertain short term . |