Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 2 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 3 | So we 're in ninety three ninety four we 've got about a year and a bit before we actually have to start really doing something |
| 4 | Erm because you can come and see me and we 'll we we can talk about it a bit because I actually have got some thoughts . |
| 5 | I wanted to be a winner and I still do ’ |
| 6 | Britain has set the European Community on a course that I wholly applaud — an ever closer union of nation states . |
| 7 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 8 | A few people never need to wear a watch because they always know what the time is . |
| 9 | ‘ No reason to suppose that people will come out five miles to see a vet when they already have two good practices in their own town . ’ |
| 10 | It 'll be wonderful to have a treasure-hunt when we eventually return ! ’ |
| 11 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 12 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 13 | He might try to justify the principle by appealing to logic , a recourse that we freely grant him , or he might attempt to justify the principle by appealing to experience , a recourse that lies at the basis of his whole approach to science . |
| 14 | As a general rule if the sick person requires a remedy and you only have it available in one potency then that is the correct potency no matter what it is ! |
| 15 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 16 | ‘ I know that , ’ Candy returned ruefully , ‘ and it 's always been the bane of my life that you can eat your way through a tuckshop without gaining a pound while I only have to look at a picture of a cream cake to make the scales groan . ’ |
| 17 | The Department of Transport 's reply to my letter ( 12 March ) seems to have missed the general point I am making from this specific case , namely that travellers normally choose their mode of transport on the basis of perceived marginal costs ( ie the cost of petrol ) and conclude that it is a lot cheaper to use a car if you already have one . |
| 18 | You can not include a Boss unless you also include his own Mob for him to fight with . |
| 19 | For some architects , the removal of regulations which both provided guidelines for behaviour and also limited the areas in which competition existed has provided a stimulus since they now feel able to compete more efficiently in a less restricted arena . |
| 20 | As you thought , Mrs. Jack has not been able to state openly that a parent can withdraw a child if they so wish as it would be seen , like Tayside , to undermine ‘ the consensual approach ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ said Lydia , ‘ but she is n't a child and I hardly know her , so I could n't start throwing my weight around , could I ? ’ |
| 22 | A burst of automatic fire up front and to our left brings the column to a halt as we then squat on the wet ground and watch the tracers shoot off across the night sky . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'd both like to see a reconciliation and they certainly have no plans for divorce . |
| 24 | Well I make a proposal that we also give them notice that at the end of this year , we will not be prepared to continue the lease on the current licence . |
| 25 | DIGI DUB serve up a welcome listen of techno ragga , electro and dub , blending them to such a degree that they still remain hard to categorise , dealing in each style with equal authority and adeptness throughout and as inventive as anything you 'll find plagiarising these genres . |
| 26 | In age-set societies , the changes in status involved in getting older are institutionalised to such a degree that they often constitute the very basis of political organisation . |
| 27 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 28 | And finally , the expert again we spoke about that , a good example really is in the computer world where you have individuals who get on really well with computers and programming but put them in a group and they really do n't provide any in fact if anything they take away from the group . |
| 29 | Finally , women who are actively anorectic and weigh 85% or less of average expected body weight may not be suitable for referral to a group as they often experience physiological urges to binge as a result of emaciation . |
| 30 | I think it 's probably sensible in a moment if we actually take the a walk round the house |