Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall discuss with my right hon. Friend whether it would be right for me to arrange a debate next week , as the hon. Gentleman suggests . |
| 2 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 3 | It was just possible for her to see a suggestion of light at the spy hole , set like a marble in the wall . |
| 4 | Moreover , she thought a great deal about what she was going to do long before she began working , and it had become possible for her to execute a painting with great precision . |
| 5 | All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |
| 7 | GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays . |
| 8 | Then is n't it possible for us to take a download of those cases , names an and addresses , and do a one-off special letter , as Bob suggests ? |
| 9 | ‘ Is it possible for us to hire a shepherd at Martinmas ? ’ |
| 10 | It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner . |
| 11 | Can I ask , Mr Chairman , if it 's possible for us to have a copy of the reports ? |
| 12 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope somehow it will become possible for you to join a Brownie Pack , but I 'm afraid Botley , where the nearest is , is too far away for you to go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Additionally could we ask whether it would be possible for you to attend a recording studio at a time convenient to yourself and allow us to record you reciting the refrain ‘ I 'm Roy , I 'm Roy — Roy Of The Reds Am I ! ’ |
| 15 | Excuse me please , is it possible for you to speak a bit louder . |
| 16 | As one patient ironically points out : ‘ It 's really strange for you to bring a play about madness to Broadmoor — we are so protected from it here . ’ |
| 17 | Any new drug in Britain is , every year the G P who 's prescribing that for you gets a letter from a centre down in Southampton to ask if there 've been any adverse reactions . |
| 18 | ‘ Is it so wrong for him to take a pep pill ? |
| 19 | Erm I 've had a gentleman on the phone this morning we have on our listings , I 'm quite interested for him to have a look at the |
| 20 | Promising to pay more when he received cheques from his insurance company , he added : ‘ It might be sensible for us to have a meeting to give you an opportunity to justify and explain , item by item , the reason for the variation between the price agreed in April 1990 and the final bill . ’ |
| 21 | It would be much more sensible for you to marry a woman with money . |
| 22 | Of the 1,533 men under 5ft 6ins , 118 of them suffered a heart attack compared with only 62 of the 1,533 men who were over 5ft 10ins . |
| 23 | By 1982 a Toronto Board of Education survey found 37 per cent of first-year high-school students were born outside Canada and that nearly half of them spoke a language other than English or French as their first language . |
| 24 | Some of them take a second or two to stop whirring and clacking as they wind tape off a drum . |
| 25 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 26 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 27 | There was a ring of children , they were giggling , but some of them looked a bit frightened . |
| 28 | Some of them some of them give a lot of details , I mean this gives a lot of detail there . |
| 29 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 30 | ‘ And some of them do a turn , ’ said Lawrence . |