Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ ? |
| 2 | The reason I cite these tales is that they do have a bearing on one another , albeit a tenuous . |
| 3 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 4 | As I do this , I introduce new sticks of colours . |
| 5 | Finally , in Soviet bureaucracy as in any other , there are perils in drawing too firmly the lines between policy , advice and implementation , but I introduce these distinctions here in order to keep confusion within bounds . |
| 6 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 7 | I am genuinely sorry , for I am heartily thankful that we have escaped from the small-mindedness of the medieval church and I despise modern astrologers , but I am afraid that the rhetoric about backwaters in the previous paragraph is just empty rhetoric . |
| 8 | I especially regret those redundancies , as I regret all redundancies . |
| 9 | For myself , middle-aged and of a generally conservative disposition , I regret these changes , in particular the depreciation of the Anglo-Welsh occasions : not only because there are fewer of them but also because the clubs now tend to field their second XVs . |
| 10 | I mean blue tits is blue tits and great tits is great tits and you do n't see any intermediates . |
| 11 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
| 12 | I mean young women , strong enough to breed like the cows every spring time and dig the fields in between — is n't that what they want in Australia , for all those men ? |
| 13 | Yeah but I mean real oranges , but you peel them and I 'd |
| 14 | I 'm sure that , would the would they be flexible and and and look at , I mean certain things you know rhombus and parallelogram . |
| 15 | When she was away for those ten days I mean certain things just could n't be done because no-one knew |
| 16 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 17 | I mean criminal trials are oral trials where the evidence is given orally so that the witnesses can be cross- examined under a and be judged by the tribunal of fact . |
| 18 | I mean twelve months is is the minimum period it could have been more . |
| 19 | Oh yeah but I mean no I I do n't mean in general , I mean specific things . |
| 20 | Well I mean all men go in for these model things . |
| 21 | I mean all kinds . |
| 22 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 23 | I mean other girls have passed . |
| 24 | Yes , we have , I mean other types of , of clips that we would n't show for different reasons , for instance we , we got one last week where a chap was decorating his lounge and he 'd locked the camera off on himself , but he had no clothes on , nothing funny happened , he was just decorating with no clothes on . |
| 25 | Well if they take as long to do it I mean good heavens there 's been one clanking manhole cover at Halam and it has taken them weeks to do it . |
| 26 | I mean two teachers come back and one of them says , Well I 've counted all those who are going to Whitby . |
| 27 | By which I mean two things . |
| 28 | Yeah I mean two things . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | No , I mean two years ago I think we would have made wrong predictions about what 's happening now . |