Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I thought oh I , I , I seemed to remember the Whitney Bay bit and I mean I do n't know what I 've done with the blinking programme last year , I mean they 're all in the magazine rack , but I do n't think that one 's there that was terrific that were n't it ? |
| 2 | and they kept I was in stiff I could hardly move them I mean if I touched them now I mean that one 's not too bad I ca n't touch that one very much when you can see them , my scars and all there If I touch that , that 'll be very gingerly ach aches like hell ! |
| 3 | well I mean that one was just a bad , a bad effort |
| 4 | Leila drives , a remarkable performance given that we are so wet and steaming that she must peer through condensation thick enough to carve . |
| 5 | These agents are unfortunately fairly easy to come by and the Iraqis have already proven themselves to be masters of er subversive acquisition , er given that they are also now fired with a certain amount of fundamentalism , and should they find their backs to the wall , that even be accelerated . |
| 6 | The costs to the service in terms of resources such as teaching aids should be relatively little , given that they are often reusable , while opportunity costs , such as time taken in learning how to teach and time in which to teach , could be recouped through the improved patient care which results from heightened awareness of current trends and developments . |
| 7 | Given that they were not receiving psychiatric treatment , it was important to double-check that their symptoms were indeed similar to those of the women who were . |
| 8 | Given that there are both upstairs and downstairs ways into the gallery spaces , there is no single order of access and no installation seems particularly privileged in relation to the others , although Ania Bien 's work is tucked away . |
| 9 | It might be that the reason working-class criminals far outnumber middle-class criminals ( proportionately , given that there are more working-class people in this country ) is because middle-class crimes are less regularly recorded and middle-class offenders are less severely punished . |
| 10 | Given that there are so few women in powerful positions this may seem surprising . |
| 11 | Given that there are currently some 2,400 active dealers ( according to the latest Romtec listing ) this represents a tiny fraction which the manufacturers judge as being capable . |
| 12 | Given that there are only about 50–100 technology ‘ providers ’ in the UK , whereas there are some 50,000 or more companies who might benefit , the challenge is enormous . |
| 13 | Er how did you find them as workers e in given that there were n't many women at that time er in |
| 14 | Neath were blamed and given that there were so many of them in the Welsh team it is impossible to argue against Neath , in the sense that the Neath style and philosophy were also Wales ' bearing some of the blame for the national decline . |
| 15 | Given that she is now at this moment incapable of giving or refusing a consent to the treatment which it is necessary in her interests , perhaps to save her life and certainly to advance her cure , I do not find myself satisfied that the refusal is a continuing one , evincing a settled intention on her part to persist in it and accepting , as I do , the father 's evidence that she would rather have blood than die , I declare that it shall be lawful for the hospital , in the circumstances prevailing , to administer blood to her , that being in her best interests . |
| 16 | So orders were given that I was not under any condition to open that thing unless I knew who was there . |
| 17 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 18 | But given that you 're really in the market place situation , if you have goods which nobody wants to sell then eventually you 're going to have to grind to a halt . |
| 19 | No-one stopped him , which is surprising given that he 's not the sort who fits into a group of golfers , never mind a crowd . |
| 20 | It does not for the moment wish to take on additional responsibilities in respect of criminal legal aid , means assessments and determinations and taxations of costs , given that it is not at present in a position to do the work more effectively . |
| 21 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 22 | Given that it is only half an hour from the coast and has charming country to both west and east , Cambo is a place to think perhaps of staying in , even if my own instincts would lead me to prefer one of the Basque villages . |
| 23 | Given that it is only a few months since the Secretary of State appointed him under a two-year contract , will the Leader of the House arrange for the Secretary of State to make a statement to the House next week on the matter ? |
| 24 | Perhaps because the average standard of anglers has improved they are not quite held in so much esteem and yet that really is not quite fair , given that it is now harder to achieve a level of consistency with open match results . |
| 25 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 26 | Before we do before we do given that it 's just coming up to ten thirty could I ask somebody to propose suspension of standing orders . |
| 27 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 28 | Given that it 's relatively low , the small adjustments that I 'm about to talk about assume greater significance . |
| 29 | But he made clear it was not a sacking offence and he regarded the matter as closed . |
| 30 | To realize this it is only necessary to look at the current pattern of ownership of the press , television and radio outside public-sector broadcasting . |