Example sentences of "[unc] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 During this time spring E 2 forces the dashpot plunger in η 2 back to its original position .
2 Erm I could go back to commerce , although er that side of my life is some way behind and it it 's always been very successfully done by er my colleagues in the company that I started .
3 Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory .
4 And the er technical quality of our drawings the client if he has confidence will say , who are you trying to kid ?
5 Well er I think as I mentioned at the outset , there 's no fundamental technical problem er a system operating broadly in the same way er was designed an an and proved on the United Kingdom 's experimental aircraft programme er six or seven years ago , er this particular aircraft , the airfighter two thousand , will employ a rather more er extensive capability in its flight control system .
6 That er any er public figure worth his salt could have achieved what Sir Edward has done , or do you think he 's brought something special to the negotiations , and why has Saddam done it ?
7 er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something
8 Mr so glad er generous compliment from my Lord
9 We 've chosen er British Rail for our slot as opposed to Waterstones .
10 . Er typical example of our technical investment , Nineteen ninety one , we were round about a hundred and fifty million .
11 Madam Speaker I r the er honourable gentleman must have a rather er curious source for his statistics because what has actually happened is not merely that the government have protected the real value of the state retirement pension but the combination of our policies both in social security , in the pensions field and in the economic world have led to a position in which pensioners average real incomes have risen more than forty percent since this government took office .
12 Beyond the Czerny and Beethoven examples for quick Allegrettos I have cited above , Beethoven further gives us , in the 6/8 Allegretto agitato fourth movement of his F minor String Quartet , op.95 , a tempo of dotted crotchet = 92 , surely rather close to the dotted minim = 108 of the Menuetto of his Symphony no.1 .
13 well erm you ca n't no doubt do that at this moment , but I , I think it 's as Mr undoubtedly said , quite apart from anything Mr said er , if there are a several addition er which strangest with the relation to the er important part from our point of view , or an important part mainly these residence on going charges , that sounds reasonable
14 Were they receiving er more produce from their outlying parts of empire ?
15 I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to .
16 The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service .
17 and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent .
18 The Training Agency 's total spending on its main training programmes in 1989–90 was 2481 million ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Tables 6.3–6.11 ) .
19 The measure of a person 's total control over his native language .
20 And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton .
21 But thanks to you , sir , ’ he leaned out and took Hope 's right hand between his palms and pressed it , ‘ thanks to you , I believe we are safe . ’
22 ‘ Dr Neil carried you in , ’ said the woman , who was now holding Sally-Anne 's right hand with her own left hand , while gently wiping Sally-Anne 's poor bruised face with a damp cloth held in her right .
23 The alligator swam off with Clara 's right arm in its jaws .
24 The deck was already beginning to dry and for Polly the sun 's luxuriant warmth on her soaked head was like a blessing .
25 And now , for the first time , he thought that he could smell the North Sea , that potent but half-illusory tang evoking nostalgic memories of childhood holidays , of solitary adolescent walks as he struggled with his first poems , of his aunt 's tall figure at his side , binoculars round her neck , striding towards the haunts of her beloved birds .
26 Cis 's helpless adoration of her child-brother was fully returned .
27 He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right .
28 It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report .
29 Unconvinced , Maxim gave a little shrug , then took Blagg 's Spanish revolver from his pocket .
30 But his output of madrigals between 1554 and 1603 — more than a thousand secular ones alone — is so overwhelming in bulk and seemingly so equable in accomplishment that even anthologists have generally recoiled from it although Alfred Einstein has published de Monte 's greatest success in his own day , ‘ Verament ’ in amore' in his Fifth Book a cinque voci ( Venice , 1574 ) .
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