Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pers pn] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay and then as you saw five 'll go into it so we can cancel the fives out and it 's just one over three . |
| 2 | To go into details of that it 's probably much more sensible to do it with just two or three people . |
| 3 | Well I think what you 've got to be careful of and it 's always a difficulty when you 're looking at er benefits and dis-benefits of major road schemes , you 'll see that we go into a tremendous amount of or collect a tremendous amount of information about the different impacts . |
| 4 | That is one of the roles of your Association and it is what your membership fees go towards and it is there to be used and they 've done their best so I hope it will come in very useful for you for this year and I wish you a very good year . |
| 5 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
| 6 | The exceptions to the regulations are very limited and the question of whether it is medically inadvisable to wear a seat belt , considered in Froom v Butcher , for obese or pregnant plaintiffs , or in Mackay v Borthwick [ 1982 ] CLY 2157 where the plaintiff suffered from a hiatus hernia is probably pre-empted by para 5(d) of the regulations . |
| 7 | In the latter case the net income attributable to shareholders will have to be assessed on the basis of whether it is reasonable compared with desired yields . |
| 8 | Corporate crime is crime irrespective of whether it is only punishable by an administrative body , or whether it merely violates individuals ' civil rights . |
| 9 | Although this difficulty could be resolved by adopting some kind of stratified sampling procedure ( Trudgill , for example , sampled four electoral wards of which the social characteristics were known ) , a more general question emerges of whether it is always reasonable to take the population of an urban area as a sampling universe , when in fact a high proportion of the higher-status people who work in that city actually reside in neighbouring towns . |
| 10 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 11 | The problem of the assault course of whether she 's actually fitted in in three months , anyhow that 's what we ought to write that in , but er , she travels , she travels most weekends playing hockey for Yorkshire , and has done that for four years , and she 's all over , where were you ? , |
| 12 | And he does so and he finds and squares the ball to his right , Alan made an advance for it but it 's was there first , put ball forward looking for and it 's just beyond the fair haired striker and races away to pick it up . |
| 13 | I know that 's all I 've got , everyone 's going and I say blah blah blah blah blah and then someone else comes up and says what 's that Walkman for and it 's really beginning to annoy me . |
| 14 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 15 | Harvey may refuse the usual ‘ women 's role ’ but she has taken the indie scene by storm by writing some starkly troubled sexual vignettes while sounding as if she 's profoundly at ease in her own skin . |
| 16 | ooh listen her , she 's acting as if she 's now |
| 17 | It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns . |
| 18 | A woman does n't fall down steep stairs then lie at the bottom as if she is fast asleep . ’ |
| 19 | It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront . |
| 20 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 21 | He still leans forward slightly as he walks , as if he is just about to shake hands with an old friend , and he still has a slight benevolent smile about his lips . |
| 22 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 23 | Mark , if you think that Strach was looking that far ahead then we should snap him up immediately , as if he is that much of a thinker then he could make a great manager . |
| 24 | He smokes at it as if he 's just a-digging ’ in his own garden ! ’ |
| 25 | Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame . |
| 26 | ‘ He does n't look as if he 's ever seen hounds before ! |
| 27 | It 's not as if he 's ever seen either of us , or is ever likely to again , ’ Cara hissed , as one or two people turned to look at them . |
| 28 | It 's as if he 's still here . |
| 29 | Oh he 's off work and you see he has all the time off for councils and you know it is n't as if he 's there fulltime . |
| 30 | This child had been asked to look at his foot carefully ‘ as if he 's never seen it before ’ . |