Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 yeah , I 's about ten like that , when I was about eleven
2 Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind .
3 His is constantly pre-occupied with fitness , strength , and staying in peak condition .
4 Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment .
5 Yours is only nine at Dolgarrog .
6 Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point .
7 'E 's dead set on gettin' this gym goin' . ’
8 the Carex panicea — Viola riviniana sub-community , which is distinctly richer in species .
9 Some light is perhaps shed on the problem by the most recent psychological researches on memory , which have identified two rather different kinds of memory — ‘ explicit ’ memory , which amounts to relatively detailed recall of a set of stimuli ; and ‘ implicit ’ memory , which is distinctly short of detail , but enables people , in effect , to ‘ know I 've seen it before somewhere ’ .
10 Joos 's " infinitive " is in fact made up of two words — to plus the bare infinitive — as can be seen from the possibility of inserting an adverb between them ( I want to really scare him ) and of finding to all by itself , something which is strictly impossible with inflections ( I do n't want to ) .
11 The reorganization is also a vital prerequisite before microfilming , which is urgently necessary for conservation purposes , can go ahead .
12 A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there .
13 Which is completely different to how the multinationals carry on .
14 That that , I mean , the er , guy from er Doncaster was referring to his experiences in nineteen seventy- four , was n't he ? urban area , which is completely different to Lincolnshire .
15 B T now are developing a whole set of procedures , well , a whole set of activity around controlling their work which is completely different from the way B T used to work and different from , I suppose , most other bits of the company .
16 In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game .
17 The Middle East Economic Digest of Feb. 1 reported that the fundamentalist Moslem Brotherhood had expressed " disgust at the position of the government , which is completely subservient to the USA and its Western allies " .
18 This is the hay barn or Dutch barn which is completely open on one or more sides .
19 There is a threshold level of income which is completely free of income tax .
20 A technique which is slightly deficient in those criteria necessary for a full point may nevertheless merit a full point if it is a kick to the head .
21 One is Traidcraft 's purchasing policy , which is slightly different to how it decides whether it 's going to buy from a particular group , people who 're producing something .
22 Ophiopristis does seem to be similar in appearance to Ophiologimus H. L. Clark , 1911 but differs mainly in the form of the tentacle pore which is slightly smaller with larger tentacle scales than Ophiologimus .
23 ‘ Your mortgage is currently set at £62,500 , Dr Bissett , which is slightly excessive for the salary you command , but I do quite understand that you bought at the top of the market and that interest rates were then not at their present level . ’
24 The evaluation aspect of advertising is an element of marketing which is remarkably short of measurement devices .
25 This graph demonstrates that , providing that we are careful to establish safe intervals for the various parameters , we can find a normalised measure which is remarkably linear with respect to true area .
26 The paper began by reviewing provisions made by a wide variety of bodies including the Further Education Staff College , the only institution which is exclusively concerned with education management training for further education staff ; by universities ; by further education colleges , including the Regional Management Centres and the colleges of education ( technical ) ; by individual local education authorities ; and by other national and regional bodies like the RACs , the CGLI and the Local Government Training Board .
27 The trend will probably further delay the creating of new consultant posts , which is critically important for some specialties , including oncology , where unrealistic workloads are carried .
28 I invariably never charge for giving my opinion , which is freely available to those who seek it , and this includes the London auction rooms .
29 The children are producing their own spelling dictionary which is freely available to the whole class .
30 ‘ The most effective treatment is an anti-histamine cream , which is freely available in chemists .
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