Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who measured me — he had red hair , I remember — lingered over my inside leg and when he realized I was n't going to object , gave me a comprehensive fondling . |
| 2 | There is something so immovable , so enduring — yet I am perfectly aware that one day he will fall down — so mysterious about my old mate that although I ca n't say that I actually feel a surge of energy , I do feel some sort of ‘ reward ’ . |
| 3 | We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible . |
| 4 | I assure my hon. Friend that when I meet Guyanese Ministers — or , indeed , Ministers from any country — I take every opportunity to promote British exports . |
| 5 | I can certainly confirm to my hon. Friend that when I met President Landsbergis yesterday I was able to indicate that we would be returning the gold . |
| 6 | It came as some comfort to me when I was about to leave Dowayoland that the chief of my village said that he would gladly accompany me back to my English village but that he feared a country where it was always cold , where there were savage beasts like the European dogs at the mission , and where it was known there were cannibals . ’ |
| 7 | In Venezia Giulia he reported that attempts to set up Allied Military Government ( AMG ) were being " flouted by Yugoslavs " and went on It is my considered opinion that unless we can support AMG in these areas by force if necessary we must withdraw rather than be flouted . " |
| 8 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
| 9 | It 's my firm belief that if we continue to stifle debate on general issues at our section conferences then we also restrict the flow of knowledge within the union . |
| 10 | It is my firm belief that if you can successfully run a group with elderly dementing people — you can run it with any client group . |
| 11 | I jogged , sprinted towards my inanimate friend and when I got there I was so relieved I wanted to cry . |
| 12 | Anyway , you know I have my good days and when I do I like to get up and sit by the fire for a while . ’ |
| 13 | But in the course of developing our case we have found no grounds upon which I could have validly chosen my present ends except that they are the ones to which I spontaneously tended when most aware ; on what grounds then could I persist in preferring these ends to a further advance in awareness which would undermine them ? |
| 14 | My Lords , erm I I I 'm glad t t to know that a text is readily available er I agree with my Noble Friend that if he took the simple course of comparing the Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as it was printed , he would have run into trouble . |
| 15 | He died in 1942 and it is my lasting regret that after I left Oxford I did not see him again ; I still have the letters he wrote me when I was in the Sudan . |
| 16 | ‘ Slowly I found out more and more about my marvellous father and though my mother — or perhaps because my mother — cherished his memory like that of nobody else , I found out she had lied to me about him . |
| 17 | Hardy was my poetical father and if I seldom read him now , it is , perhaps because our relationship is so assured as no longer to need being made conscious . |
| 18 | Furthermore , there are significant flaws in the use of such substitutes as Methadone : sufferers from addictive disease will commonly use other drugs including intravenous drugs in addition to their oral Methadone and when they do finally want to end their suffering and come off drugs altogether they commonly find that it is far harder to come off Methadone that to come off heroin . |
| 19 | We had doubts in our minds about the strength of these children 's attachment to their adoptive parents and though our sample group is very small , we would like to pose the hypothesis that ‘ severing children 's meaningful emotional links with members of their birth families limits their capacity for full attachment to their new families ’ . |
| 20 | Zeinab had set it up for Owen to meet her theatrical friends at their usual cafe and as she and Owen turned into the square , there they were , occupying their usual tables on the edge of the pavement . |
| 21 | The Law Society may refuse to cancel an RFL 's entry where there are outstanding complaints about the RFL concerning his or her professional conduct or where there are proceedings pending against him or her before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal . |
| 22 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 23 | As a result of the tour , our cattle specialists are well able to talk to both internal staff and customers about dairying in France — ensuring that our customers stay ahead of their European competitors and that our cattle specialists stay well ahead of theirs ! |
| 24 | The principal obstacle was Jackson ; as in Tokyo , Americans believed that Australian representatives were too radical in their political sympathies and that they worked against American policies . |
| 25 | Whether because they have genuinely changed their political philosophy or because they simply realize that they will never get away with it in a modern pluralistic society , for whatever reason , conservative Protestants have preferred to follow the democratic inheritance of the Reformation . |
| 26 | Unless the Labour leadership recognises publicly that some form of Scottish parliament must come first on its political agenda and unless it can bring itself to co-operate enthusiastically with the SNP and Liberal parties to achieve this , nothing will continue to happen . |
| 27 | There should be a curriculum map available which shows how each of the subject areas in the school deliver their specific remits and where there are areas of possible overlap . |
| 28 | The University will assume that it is free to approach referees at any stage unless the candidate 's application stipulates otherwise ( i.e. candidates who wish a referee or referees to be approached only with their specific permission and/or if they are being called for interview on the final short list or are in receipt of a conditional offer , are asked to state such requirements explicitly alongside the details of the relevant referee(s) ) . |
| 29 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 30 | Although immersed in church and women 's group activities , nothing was known about her private circumstances except that she had a mysterious set of distant relations in Blairgowrie . |