Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 2 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 3 | Everyone buggers off I mean you sit around the parents ' car and you have the lunch with your sort of so |
| 4 | The government refused to agree to the Indians ' demand that it abandon its militarized " security zone " on the Peruvian frontier , and pass a constitutional amendment recognizing the country as " multi-cultural and multi-national " . |
| 5 | You have to put the the regional accents acc accent if they have one . |
| 6 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 7 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 8 | So he said erm but we ha being refurbished in four weeks ' time and we 've got to sell everything in the shop |
| 9 | It 's always been a workers ' day and I hope it will remain so . |
| 10 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 11 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 12 | ‘ This may rise to about 20 in three years ' time if we do well . |
| 13 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 14 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 15 | Shop-stewards can fail to support black workers or can participate in employers ' discrimination because they know the prejudiced opinions of their members and feel that they can not afford to lose their support . |
| 16 | Despite the firm figures in the community care plan ( see table ) , and social services managers ' confidence that they know the level of need in the city , he thinks they know little . |
| 17 | Though slow motion can be comic , it usually is not ; rather , it increases viewers ' concentration as they try to determine what is being emphasized . |
| 18 | Always be very aware of your childrens ' reaction when you tell them a particular babysitter is coming . |
| 19 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 20 | The judge would not have erred had he drawn attention to the circumstances ( which were in fact plain for all to see ) , but their Lordships reject the adoption of any rule which would impose new obligations on trial judges in their approach to the consideration of witnesses ' evidence and they refer to the judgment delivered by Ackner L.J . |
| 21 | To introduce further byelaws , with all the attendant costs of application to the Home Off , with all the attendant costs of such things as application to the Home Office to enact the byelaw , the probability of requiring to post notices on all Council-owned land etcetera so that the public knows which is Council-owned land would , in the opinion of the responsible dog ownership group , be a waste of the charge payers ' money as we believe that the Council already have sufficient powers to deal with any problems arising by reference to the existing pleasure grounds byelaws and or the Dangerous Dogs Act . |
| 22 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 23 | Secondly , we can turn to Berger and Mohr 's account of migrants ' experience as they travel from an economically peripheral society to a thriving industrial economy in Western Europe . |
| 24 | SHRINK the world with our latest pen pals ' list as we visit India , China , Canada , Japan and Kenya . |
| 25 | Two answers may be given : first , just as they illuminate many other areas of social life , the methods and findings of our rivals may help us understand the work of the professions ( to illustrate this , some of my examples will be drawn from medical novels ; no doubt legal novels will be equally instructive ) ; second , it is not clear how far we can go in understanding other occupations ' behaviour unless we grasp that of our own . |
| 26 | The next four paragraphs are important in the committee 's scheme of things and I must ask your Lordships ' indulgence while I quote them in full : |
| 27 | The prize at stake is immense , but Leeds have five players walking a disciplinary tightrope and they risk missing out in the champions ' league if they collect a second caution . |
| 28 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 29 | Mr Lang is also expected to turn his criticism on parents who neglect their children 's education and who fail to teach right from wrong and respect for others . |
| 30 | Now , well you ca n't have one , you ca n't have a children 's day cos you do n't do anything |