Example sentences of "[noun sg] er [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that the idea of a adjustability er you say that they were snapped up , do you think that people actually once they get an adjustable light fitting , do you think that they actually adjust it ? |
| 2 | And of course er they knew that there was gon na be a war whereas we put it out of our mind , we thought , well we 'll be prepared but it 'll never come . |
| 3 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 4 | And er er Paul your stepbrother er he died while he was with his regiment . |
| 5 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 6 | It 's very easy then of course to punish the person er who communicates that with you er which ultimately can can er totally divorce an organisation from the reality of what it 's actually doing so that kind of philosophy , very destructive in terms of er effective communication . |
| 7 | And then they fall down and die and they give a signal er they scream and they pick something up . |
| 8 | But before I leave this particular part of my criticism er perhaps er in case the minister er er does n't accept what I 'm saying I could quote er the words of the right honourable gentleman , the President of the Board of Trade er who writing before he was a President er in his book where there 's a will he said accountancy firms ought I believe , the debarred from doing any other work for a company for which they act as auditors and in a number of other countries there are laws which circumscribe auditors in this way and prevent to prevent any possible conflict of interest . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact , the hunt is a very ineffectual way of controlling foxes , er they record the number they kill and it 's very , very few , a tiny percentage of the number of foxes there are in the countryside clever foxes er , as indeed I think Mrs mentioned , live in towns nowadays er , but there are still quite a lot in the countryside fortunately and they will survive er , though zoologists tell us er that er by instinct er they see that their numbers are controlled . |
| 10 | Well sir er we have as Mr has said , in N Y eleven , the commentary er of our o opinions on the situation put forward by the House Builders Federation . |
| 11 | Sir er you hinted that er if there are to be further written representations you 'd be looking to directing a cutoff date , and you hinted at I think tomorrow as being one possibility sir , so that you could leave this enquiry on Wednesday with all the papers you need and receive nothing more by way of written representation , evidence or any other documentation whatsoever . |
| 12 | Sorry , and erm that in their statement er they indicated that the hundred and forty two employees would be redeployed elsewhere in where possible . |
| 13 | And also someone like him because I mean , I mean er obviously he , he seemed like a , I mean I 'm sure he 's a nice guy er I mean when it comes down to it he probably is a nice guy , he 's probably nice to her but it 's just the fact that he is so restricted in his views and |
| 14 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 15 | And in fact er we said that at the time the white paper was published . |
| 16 | And actually , er , it does n't , it implies that her it 's , of the Lowood , but in fact er it improved because they had an outbreak of erm typhus did n't they ? |