Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] [noun] [coord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary popular music , in fact , with its fine tuning of genre mutations and blurrings and its rapid responsiveness to demographics , might be a more productive place than popular cinema from which to start thinking about the processes of television genre . |
| 2 | We shall if you request , negotiate in the capacity of professional advisers on your behalf within pre-agreed negotiating parameters or instructions but it is our policy not to take decisions on your behalf . |
| 3 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 4 | and my dad had you know the stuff he used to find in it cutlery all the tea towels and plates and everything else . |
| 5 | There is a considerable number of textbooks which provide a run-through of positivist research findings and theories and it is not the intention to attempt yet another one here . |
| 6 | ‘ They have apprenticeship systems and guilds and they 're starting to say quite criminally anti-European [ he means anti-free market ] things . |
| 7 | She could say , in all honesty , that she had looked out her college paints and brushes but they had been dried up and beyond recall . |
| 8 | Thus , during the late 1940s , five of every six newly-built dwellings were council houses or flats and they were allocated according to need rather than according to income . |
| 9 | Well they could buy some of these and turn these into council houses or flats or something like that . |
| 10 | What do , what do you actually do in your office , is it like telephone duties or typing or what ? |
| 11 | management services and branches and what systems have been reduced and the branches that have actually kept the ones they 're on to . |
| 12 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 13 | Carpet is acceptable in town houses or flats but it must be the best quality you can afford because hallways take a lot of through traffic . |
| 14 | We would sit down and work out chord progressions and scales and we 'd go over modes ; we 'd map out scales and modes over three octaves and go over arpeggios . |
| 15 | As well as Winemark 's specially selected own label wines , several of which were awarded medals , a broad range of wines was entered ranging from the humblest Vin de Pays to the grandest Grand Crus and the Red Wine of the Year — Albor Rioja Tinto 1991 , a firm wine coated with black cherry aromas and flavours and lots of fruit echoing in the finish . |
| 16 | Swimming baths or bleach or You can put some universal indicator or erm P H paper or |
| 17 | I think , I mean some unions might want the branch secretaries but some might want all branch officials , some might want all shop stewards or senior shop stewards or convenors or whatever terminology we have , have in the respective unions for , for their positions . |
| 18 | They are not quite community workers and centres but they are not far off . |
| 19 | The faculty has regularly reviewed both its membership examination regulations and syllabus and its training recommendations over the past 20 years to ensure that they keep up to date , most recently with a complete revision last year , and it is continually striving to improve education and training in the specialty . |
| 20 | They show clear regional , age , sex and social class variation ; boys consistently show more accident injuries than girls and there is a steep social class gradient in child accident fatalities . |
| 21 | Aimed at the employer , Nickel and its inorganic compounds : health and safety precautions and Chromium and its inorganic compounds : health and safety precautions are available , price £2 each , from HMSO or booksellers . |
| 22 | Or again : ‘ It is suggested that teachers should consider both the test results of the APU and the assessment procedures and relate them to their own teaching aims and objectives and their methods of assessment ’ . |
| 23 | As Windows sorts out the ( hardware ) men from the boys , there 's a large section of the book dedicated to exploiting your disc drives , keyboards , mice and pointing devices , modems , networks , printers and video boards and monitors and I found that section particularly impressive . |
| 24 | ‘ The trenches might have been dug for anything , water pipes or sewers or something . ’ |
| 25 | No , we bought them all secondhand well they used to come round with this , not secondhand stuff but all new stuff and he used to go round the dock selling different er water boot socks and sweaters and he dealer . |
| 26 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 27 | Darwin was not specific as to why males should typically compete more strongly for access to breeding partners than females and it was left to biologists of this century to provide the answer ( Fisher , 1930 ; Bateman , 1948 ; Trivers , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | The police shelter erm both sets of student greens and Dick and your own candidate erm asking for their help with the big box pile up . |
| 29 | She knew nothing about field forces or induction or anything of that sort . |
| 30 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |