Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [is] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , I expect it 's difficult to manage without harming them . ’ |
| 2 | Some say it is 0.5 microgram per cubic metre . |
| 3 | Some people say it 's unlucky to walk under ladders . |
| 4 | ‘ You say it 's impossible to detonate in itself . |
| 5 | We hope to rejoin Nick Harris in a few minutes , we hope he 's able to speak with manager , Brian Horton or perhaps one or two of the players . |
| 6 | In connection with wave attack it is useful to distinguish between prevalent and dominant winds . |
| 7 | British rail tell us that the Scotland to Brighton train which is due to call at Oxford at 5.35 is running 2 hours late this evening , but I have nothing to report to you from the buses . |
| 8 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 9 | Oh I know it 's hard to take at 7 am , but this country needs waking up . |
| 10 | I mean I know it 's hard to start with . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I know it 's wrong to believe in such things , but Lilith could n't have known about seven , could she ? ’ |
| 12 | Rather important that one you know , a street lamp out for six weeks , though I know it 's difficult getting in touch with exactly the right department and whose responsibility it is . |
| 13 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 14 | By catching the Chamden-London Inter-City train it is possible to go from the Second Division to the Third and back again on this unequalled trip . |
| 15 | The forward- facing electors without our campaign exp expertise , back-up and money will not dissolve any deeply held if only recently announced objections to union association , for we all know what 's likely to happen at the party conference in October if the brakes are not applied now . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ said Liese , who was now engaged to a nice young architect called Leonard , and who was proud and plump and stuffed as full of delight as a feather cushion — over-stuffed , Brenda remarked ‘ I suppose it 's better to believe in something than nothing . |
| 17 | Mind you , I suppose it 's useful to know in advance just what lifestyles and sorts of behaviour would be permitted in the Free Ireland which the IRA is fighting to bring into being . |
| 18 | they believe it 's all going to be in a story do n't they ? |
| 19 | To increase from three weeks to six weeks , and I believe it 's important to respond to district and borough councils when we 're trying to co-operate with them . |
| 20 | We believe it is essential to build on the political and technical progress that was made in the agreement that environmental sustainability should be the ultimate goal for all human societies , including ours in Wales . |
| 21 | Because of this I believe it is unethical to charge for , say , ten consultations when it may well turn out that only six are necessary . |
| 22 | We find it 's simpler to go to Stockton and get parked . |
| 23 | Virtually all the arguments discussed above implicitly compare what is likely to occur under a cooperative R&D venture with what might occur if R&D were undertaken independently by firms . |
| 24 | But I doubt there 's much left for this year . |
| 25 | So wh I mean it 's all to do with behaviourism in the sense that , rather than being concerned with the mechanisms that iner er what 's the word ? |
| 26 | I do n't know what , well the I mean it 's all paid for so we 'd either depending how many people are going away or whatever |
| 27 | I mean it 's okay to come to this studio and , in Edinburgh and walk up a busy street and see people going into pubs and being drunk ! |
| 28 | Do n't , I mean it 's silly knocking on strangers ' doors , it really is ridiculous knocking on strangers ' doors . |
| 29 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 30 | Conservation principles depend upon the idea that to explain change it is necessary to fix upon something constant . |