Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd look a bit funny if they were sort of |
| 2 | First of all the British Met Office erm receives information from all over the world , and it is able to do this because it is part of a massive weather organisation called the World Met Organisation , and this is linked by very , very high-speed communications worldwide . |
| 3 | It did n't matter which lead mode I selected , when I 'd pulled enough gain out of the system to create the required feel , the volume had all but gone , rendering the sound pretty unusable since it was way below that of my other patches . |
| 4 | It is not clear whether they are issues in which Marx was ever really involved ; if he had been , then it would seem likely that they would have played a more important role in his later work . |
| 5 | He did so at home and away in 1965–66 , and then hit another when they were visitors at Selhurst Park in February 1967 . |
| 6 | I almost envy the unemployed when they 're sort of walking along the side the canal and |
| 7 | Mrs Welch , head of trans-European and overseas initiatives , has been at Longlands for six years , moving there from Saltburn Comprehensive where she was head of physics . |
| 8 | In the Boulonnais , Silurian shales have been described by Wallace ( 1968 ) as untectonised where they are overthrust by Devonian and Carboniferous rocks . |
| 9 | Erm It 's a sim similar except it 's minus over V squared . |
| 10 | Erm it may be erm er worth , in that , in that context , saying something about erm to get a contrast effect between y'know sort of how people would feel if they saw a man and a woman kissing in public and they may be perfectly alright about that but they may er feel particularly disgusted when it 's sort of two men or two women . |
| 11 | Alan , I 'm sorry if I 'm sort of trying to put you at the end and continue and I I do n't intend it like that . |
| 12 | Mr Zivkovic , who was asked by the judge to be more polite , said : ‘ I think he is guilty if he was chief of staff of V Corps at the time of the handing over . |
| 13 | And even , although you ca n't read it all , it 's very hard because it 's sort of at a an oblique angle . |
| 14 | Stoke 's been saved so erm hopefully everything 's sort of a lot better than it was sort of ten days ago . |
| 15 | Dressings generally should be left undisturbed until it is time for suture removal unless : |
| 16 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 17 | One of the major problems for us , whichever Party 's in in control , and I think if Councillor had gone to the press after this report was done and , rather than trying to score points and saying it 's all because it 's lack of Government cash , if he 'd appli if he 'd said , let's all get together on this , let's try and solve the problem , the problem 's been going on indefinitely , let's try and s , he might have gained more credibility . |
| 18 | Since the mid-1970s there has been growing recognition that residential care can only be effective when it is part of a package aimed at helping the family as a whole , and where parents are involved in all aspects of the care process . |
| 19 | Barley is exceedingly delicate in his treatment of the great Bung Karno , the man who once stated , to wild applause from an audience of Indonesian economists , that ‘ Inflation can be good — as long as it is inflation for the Indonesian revolution ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ With this I can buy anything I like as long as it 's food from suppliers approved by the Home Office , ’ Lamb says . |
| 21 | The interviewers , who are normally retired FBI men , are pretty tolerant of homosexuals ( as long as they are out of the closet , making ‘ outing ’ an official policy ) and marijuana-smoking ( as long as it was part of student experimenting ) . |
| 22 | After 'e 'as 'is tea 'e falls asleep in that chair an' 'e 's like that till it 's time for bed . |
| 23 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 24 | After a three month search DEC UK Ltd has appointed Christopher Conway as UK managing director and UK-Ireland territory manager : Conway comes from IBM UK Ltd where he was director of UK banking and financial services — Geoff Shingles , who resigned as managing director at the end of 1992 , remains chairman . |
| 25 | And all the soil 's eroding cos it 's sort of sand and it 's red . |
| 26 | So some horses are unfriendly because it is part of their genetic makeup , and other horses are unfriendly due to lack of proper handling when they are young . |
| 27 | MIPS Computer Systems Inc is desperate to be seen to be non-aligned once it is part of Silicon Graphics Inc , and to that end , it has rallied 12 of the computer industry Great and the Good to help guide the future directions of the MIPS microprocessor architecture and help ensure that it remains competitive and open . |
| 28 | The scheme 's been so successful since it 's launch in 1990 that about 60 percent of the Borough 's household waste is now recycled . |
| 29 | SIMPLE SIMON says shake your head ; Simple Simon says this bunch are cool 'cos they 're friends of Steve Albini ; Simple Simon says stage-dive . |
| 30 | An air attack now on Saddam 's convoy or his bunker would be very difficult unless it were part of a general air-strike to punish his refusal to follow UN Security Council resolutions . |