Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is one of the unhappy paradoxes of the Whitehall market-place that it reacts to the goad of strong , abrasive ministers like Duncan Sandys , whose revolutionary ideas it detests , and yet is slow to implement the more balanced , evolutionary policies of a Harold Watkinson , for which it craves . |
| 2 | THE airpass holder who whinged to the Dallas check-in clerk that she had spent all day standing by for a flight out of one of America 's less attractive airports was gently chastised . |
| 3 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 4 | The other thing I 'd say is that the budget settlement that we 've got introduces a further hundred thousand of investment in new technology , and this is part of our push to making us more efficient in the way we manage our budgets and all the rest of it . |
| 5 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 6 | He shuffled , he stamped , he stayed well back in the shelter of the narrow brick passageway that he 'd found as a better lookout point . |
| 7 | It emerged after the first reports of the Dushanbe violence that there had been a demonstration on Feb. 10 in Frunze , the capital of Kirghizia , likewise sparked off by rumours of the resettlement there of Armenian refugees . |
| 8 | Is there no more erm that sewing club that you go to on a Wednesday , is it finished ? |
| 9 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 10 | Both the hon. Member for Wellingborough and I were impressed by the EC monitoring force that we met in Zagreb . |
| 11 | The new NVQ training and assessment programme that we mentioned earlier also holds great promise for expanding the career advancement opportunities for paraprofessionals in Britain . |
| 12 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 13 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 14 | Nowhere is this more so than in the sub-division of crime fiction that I have labelled the " crime novel " . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I forgot to sign the card index that I had administered the drug and I could not order more because it was a Sunday . ’ |
| 16 | It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins . |
| 17 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 18 | There 's a double cutaway arrangement and it 's a very different body shape from any jazz guitar that I 've seen . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm all stiff and sore , ’ Lucy said , and then pulled down the shoulder of the oversized Blues Brothers T-shirt that she 'd bought for sleeping in . |
| 20 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 21 | When Mark and his cohorts eventually emerged from the dark recesses of the studio and delivered the Talk Talk album that they 'd always wanted to make to the band 's record label , more than one EMI executive jaw hit the lush EMI executive suite carpet . |
| 22 | Moreover , the curriculum was augmented by at least one thing directly attributable to the project , and this was the development of study skills , which according to the head was : one spin-off effect that I did n't envisage , I did n't realise that would come so quickly afterwards … |
| 23 | He put one of their cocktail nuts into my mouth off a silver tray that he had balanced for the moment on the washbasin , and set himself to work on my mascara . |
| 24 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 25 | But after wining and dining in style , it 's only aboard the tea-time boat home that you count the real cost — those extra pounds on your waistline . |
| 26 | The move follows the announcement in July by the International Stock Exchange that it intended to set up a clearing house to handle existing and projected settlement services in London . |
| 27 | In his preface to Djuna Barnes 's Nightwood , he introduced a passage of autobiography couched in a similar tone : " In the Puritan morality that I remember … |
| 28 | Josie said from the doorway , and so Lucy explained about her earlier interview and the ring binder that she 'd seen . |
| 29 | Er but erm if you do er business through a paper , then nobody is responsible for the investment business that you do . |
| 30 | So if you bring a questionnaire and erm er we 'll go through it and I 'll show you sort of how to define the variable list and and y'know kind of how to enter the date and stuff , show you a give you a copy of the data file that I 've got that actually works so if you just sort of follow the syntax it 'll yeah so erm so that 's okay . |