Example sentences of "[adj] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some time on his watch , say 11:00 , the star would shrink below the critical radius at which the gravitational field becomes so strong nothing can escape , and his signals would no longer reach the spaceship . |
| 2 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you hear that everyone ? |
| 4 | The belief they held was that the resort was a ‘ dream city ’ in that everyone who came on holiday there had the wish to live there permanently . |
| 5 | Erm I wanted to ask erm I ga I assume that everyone has read through the bumf that I 've been merrily distributing . |
| 6 | I think that everyone seems to pass the buck , I mean the parents think , oh they 'll learn it at school and the teachers think , oh co they should be learning it from their parents , and yo , you never learn it from anyone just from your friends . |
| 7 | But what it meant is it got read , written into the constitution , it meant that everyone can buy a gun . |
| 8 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 9 | But it was difficult to see why they would , given that everyone seemed to agree with the current policy . |
| 10 | After that everyone went to bed , but nobody slept . |
| 11 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 12 | I know you appear in programmes about race relations from time to time , but you 're not one of the usual old gang of faces that everyone 's sick of . |
| 13 | I expect that everyone came to church here , this evening because they knew that it was a communion Sunday , and the sacrament of Holy Communion would be celebrated here this evening . |
| 14 | After that everyone tried to help Karen . |
| 15 | You could n't go was er I 'm not going to recommend that everyone should go out and buy a dog . |
| 16 | The thing about the Neighbourhood Watch is that everyone in the area is a member whether they really want to be one or not to be honest . |
| 17 | She could go back to work , she supposed , only if she did that everyone would want to know why . |
| 18 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 19 | Is that everyone else 's experience ? would y does this happen in Japan ? |
| 20 | By asking the question , ‘ How much would you like , given that everyone will be charged for the cost of providing public goods ? ’ society can come closer to providing the efficient quantities of public goods . |
| 21 | So for example he 's Mill is very keen on the idea of local participation , that everyone should at some point in their lives play a role in local government in some level . |
| 22 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 23 | the erm , I mean if there 's only one much worse that they know that everyone much better for their |
| 24 | Erm well a at one time , when we put various arguments to him , he just turned round and decided that everyone over sixty would be surplus to requirements and er and sent down the road if you like . |
| 25 | No , no i ever every decision was taken at the lodge , the shop stewards did n't run the strike between them and just inform us after every decision was taken by all fifty members at the start and forty members at the finish , and I 'm you know I 'm proud to say that everyone was part of what went on . |
| 26 | Well I do n't think it is because you 're again you 're back to the line that everyone is bullying and I do n't believe that everyone is bullying . |
| 27 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 28 | Most people think that they 're being stupid if they have to ask a question they think that everyone else is n't probably thinking the same thing . |
| 29 | That everyone ought to live on unsurfaced streets ? |
| 30 | Now if there is no problem why on earth do we have to put that sort of that sort of work by officers erm , in , in to action erm , so between the , if I understand Labour 's position now Chairman , between the twenty fifth of August and the twenty eighth of September , we have now gone from accepting the problem and seeing how we can solve a number problem to saying that there is no no number problem and that everyone is cooking the books . |