Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adj] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Now , it had been years since I had seen Bartholomew Burghgesh and I considered him long dead , yet I am sure that man I glimpsed that cold December morning was Sir Bartholomew himself .
2 I would n't care to offer advice to gamblers , because I 'm sure that people who bet on horses do things other than purely look at the odds the horse if offered at .
3 I 'm sure that Jack himself ( who did n't really exploit its potential ) would defer to the earlier use of the model by Jet Harris , who recorded with it as early as April 1962 , a few weeks after he had left The Shadows .
4 She 's good as gold she is .
5 She tries to find a way through and because she 's patient and understanding she gets there .
6 We are convinced that managers who develop their human resources in conjunction with implementing AMT [ Advanced Manufacturing Technology ] will achieve a competitive advantage .
7 You may omit from this count words that begin with a capital letter , words that are long because they are hyphenated and verbs whose third syllable is " -ed " or " -es . "
8 They are concerned that councillors who keep themselves to themselves are easy prey for the IRA .
9 If it 's Swiss or French they do n't usually bother . ’
10 it 's male or female you see .
11 Yeah , especially when it 's cold and dark you do n't want it , you can have an extra half hour in bed , .
12 In the meantime it 's Emerald and Bradley who are the flavour of the autumn .
13 We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel .
14 Therefore , it is essential that people who live around the land , and are thus directly affected , should be protected under section 39 so that they can use the law to move people on .
15 ‘ the advantage of adopting this course if it is practical because children whose appeals are heard last could otherwise be prejudiced because of decisions which had been reached already by an appeal committee to send children to a particular school ’ .
16 It is sad if mothers who would rather be with their children have to go out to work to make ends meet .
17 Furthermore , it is logical that models which can yield an investment strategy capable of beating a process of random selection and ‘ buy-and-hold ’ would not be published until they ceased to be profitable for their creators .
18 It is understandable when pensioners who come to see me ask , ’ Who won the war ?
19 The data do not prove that the operation precedes the bowel dysfunction , and it is possible that women who are troubled by the symptoms of constipation are more likely to report gynaecological symptoms to their general practitioners .
20 As the different alcoholic beverages have not been shown to cause different diseases it is possible that alcohol itself is the most harmful component of the beverages .
21 As in Belfast East it is possible that voters themselves , as well as party managers , may have strong opinions as to how their preferences should be expressed .
22 We have matching for age and for education but it is possible that people who are older and well-educated have special opinions ; such a person happens to receive X and may give rise to a spurious effect .
23 It is safe as houses you do n't forfeit it it 's entirely you can claim it when your due but you can leave it there for us
24 Thus , if it is true that children who speak the more prestigious variety are the more successful than others , this is caused by other factors such as higher teacher- expectations or the middle-class values of the school .
25 Therefore , it is important that plants which have such rootstock should always he planted with them intact .
26 For the themes of savage and city it is Demant and Dawson who are important , though neither writer is gripping .
27 As to the melancholy or chronic mild depression which socialist totalitarianisms seem to induce , it is obvious that individuals who have not mastered oral , anal and phallic instinctual drives within their own personalities can not derive the gain in self-esteem , self-control and narcissistic self-satisfaction which the successful surmounting of an instinctual conflict always brings .
28 The Whitbread is a long race full of hardships , so it is unlikely that people who hardly knew each other would not have disputes and in the end form friendships .
29 For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ .
30 It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique .
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