Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may all sound like an advanced case of paranoia but it 's actually just a simple precaution which does n't hurt anyone . |
| 2 | If the computer is delivered late , then you would be entitled to damages based on the loss in profits in the normal course of business but you would not be entitled to anything should you lose the government contract . |
| 3 | It is only part of a battery of equipment the cosmonauts use to counter the prolonged effect of weightlessness but it is an important one and some alternative will have to be found before women undertake long duration flights . |
| 4 | Such units are sentence-like in that they are syntactically combined sequences of words but they seem to be stored in the mind ready for use as preformed unitary items , like words , already assembled for immediate access . |
| 5 | Not only does he handle the commercial activities of Kew but he is also responsible for its little-publicised conservation work . |
| 6 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 7 | Children in the United Kingdom face different sorts of problems but they too are under threat . |
| 8 | He was a different type of skater but he did plenty of modern lip stuff including backside smith stop to fakie , and much other to-fakie weirdness . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's an elusive sort of bird but he exists . ’ |
| 10 | We read in the papers about the German war in Russia but we only knew one boy who was fighting there : Ada 's brother . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've tried growing interesting plants in grass but it 's very hard . |
| 12 | Progress work may not be the most exciting job in advertising but it is a highly responsible and essential one . |
| 13 | I like different kinds of people but I try very hard to be ‘ nice ’ to everybody . |
| 14 | He was ardently pro-Western and anti-Soviet , he wanted greater social reform in Germany but he was ready to accept a capitalist element in running the economy too . |
| 15 | There is no direct evidence for Angoulême but we know that in 1199 Count Ademar was still trying to recover lands which had once been held by his father Count William and 1176–7 is the most likely date for their confiscation by the Angevins . |
| 16 | Erm in Wales and Scotland also slightly better than people expected erm a rise was , was expected but not as strong as we , as we 've actually seen erm the Welsh and Scottish er economies , certainly there 's cle clear evidence in Scotland but I think one can read it for Wales as well , showing that the manufacturing economy er very much being buoyed up by the electronic sector erm and that probably er helping to explain why growth has been so strong in those parts of the country . |
| 17 | In summary , Mr Chairman , the overall mortality rate for disease , for T U R P , over the northern region was point three percent and this compares very well with the large published theories from America but we did find large inter-site variations for both mortality and major morbidity rates . |
| 18 | Another of Mr. Talbot 's activities was the loaning of money at a fair old rate of interest but he did not believe in spending a penny to smarten his premises from which the paint was peeling so badly that bare wood was revealed . |
| 19 | The BNP ( British National Party ) , founded by John Tyndall in 1982 after his departure from the NF , long laboured in the wilderness ; in 1992 , it has become the most important of the extreme-right groupings in Britain but it nonetheless remains a peripheral phenomenon . |
| 20 | ‘ He can be a cantankerous old fossil at times but I hope this is n't going to force him to retire . |
| 21 | Each of the dealing firms has a different amount of stock but you can work out who has what by how keenly the prices compare with the best bid , best offer . |
| 22 | Where are you calling from we 're very loud with callers today I know I 'm not the most exciting thing on radio but you know there must be some callers out there somewhere ? |
| 23 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 24 | Yeah and especially on the fractions and the different types of fractions but you just find o found out what makes ninety have n't you ? |
| 25 | After the break Smith proved the menacing player for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence . |
| 26 | Michael Feist Countryside special sites could be in open countryside away from Government policies concerning sustainability , I wonder how Professor Lock would see the situation emerging whereby a local authority has allocated a certain amount of land in its local plan for development for industrial or commercial purposes , it 's tried to erm identify a broad range of criteria but it also identified special sites erm which will only be released in exceptional circumstances , that happened to be an open countryside and had the advantages that it may be a little close to the A one or somewhere similar . |
| 27 | I made a facial question-mark at Melanie but she just shrugged and edged closer . |
| 28 | The Labour party possessed a utopian ethic of socialism but it failed to develop the pragmatic programme either to alter the capitalist state which it inherited or to reform it from within . |
| 29 | So , the challenge was on — we could n't guarantee the real Costner for Ellen but she said she would be happy with the next best thing . |
| 30 | ‘ He is the ordinary bloke from Brixton but he is idiosyncratic , ’ says Mr Bruce . |