Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] that [pron] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call it an attempt to emphasise that Macedonia is an historically and culturally Greek region just when the ex-Yugoslav Macedonia , invented and so-named after World War II by Tito , is seeking international support for its own claim to independence , so far without much success : in part because of the problem of its name , in part because of fear that it is looking with greedy eyes at Greek Macedonia . |
| 2 | And I think this inward investment that Professor Lock is referring to and the scale of investment that he is referring to must be considered as additional and and would draw in additional jobs . |
| 3 | Secondly , I 'd like you to identify the three members of management that he 's dealing with , are called Barbara , oh God , what are they called , Barbara , Ted and Doughnut . |
| 4 | Well I personally think with an appeal fund like that , I mean the amount of money that 's gone into it is ridiculous considering the amount of compensation that everybody 's going to get or hopes to get after it . |
| 5 | Their fears have been enhanced by the recent announcement from the Department of Transport that it is considering new plans to relieve congestion on the M25 . |
| 6 | ii The Tobacco Advisory Council has ended its advertising business with Saatchi and Saatchi amid speculation that it is poised to launch a major campaign combating EC moves to ban tobacco advertising . |
| 7 | Erm those sites are subject to other lo locational restrictions and other environmental restrictions and would n't in our view be appropriate for the sort of development that he 's looking for erm a location in in our context anyway generally speaking along the A one corridor . |
| 8 | Worrying about your weight is more likely to lead to comforting yourself with a piece of chocolate that it is to assist in burning up calories . |
| 9 | It is within such a framework of thought that it is contended that a priest must necessarily be male . |
| 10 | However , it is a fact of life that what is considered reasonable is the product of our experience and therefore varies from person to person . |
| 11 | This idea is so fundamental to the principle of interpretation that it is expressed , in slightly different forms , by various writers . |
| 12 | Howard also finds with pleasure that he is beginning to speak a language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office , even to Phil — schuppen structure , Pennine ‘ windows ’ , and Dinaride outliers . |
| 13 | Manager Elliott Roberts has arrived with news that he 's found a new room with a jacuzzi bath . |
| 14 | ‘ You can not live your life in fear that someone is going to attack you . |
| 15 | ‘ Then how are you going to prove in court that he 's breaking his contract here by working somewhere else ? ’ |
| 16 | Bigger brother Waterstones ( although only marginally so — 8,400 sq ft , 25 full time , 16 full time equivalents ) also opens on seven days a week , and occupies the ground floor and basement of one of Glasgow 's most attractive buildings , so Venetian in character that it is known as the Ca' d'Oro . |
| 17 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 18 | She phoned , and she goes at no she goes , she said to mummy that she 's gon na drop off some clothes cos they have n't been washed erm let , one of them lot washing . |
| 19 | Aid , given on condition that it is spent on genuine development , can till the soil for home-grown growth . |
| 20 | Blinkered and self-serving as this picture may appear ( it entirely ignores the gains which the USSR has achieved through war ) , it will be clear on reflection that what is meant by ‘ peace ’ is conflict without war : or , to invert these terms , ‘ a form of warfare which permits the settlement of unavoidable clashes between Socialism and Capitalism without having recourse to general armed conflict , ( author 's italics ) . |
| 21 | British Airways soared 6p to 307p on news that it is pulling out of the $750m US-Air deal . |
| 22 | He revealed to ACCOUNTANCY that he is getting extra discounts of around 10% from the six major publishers that are now involved . |
| 23 | It justifies the move as proof that it is taking the independent platform integration business seriously . |
| 24 | ‘ I know Rosemary feels eaten up by guilt that she 's fallen in love with you while she 's married to someone else , but surely — ’ Leith tried to reason . |
| 25 | ‘ when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 26 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as it common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 27 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 28 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |