Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 2 | Now could I ask , if there are any erm matters on there where you have found and error and it 's an error of fact , can I just stress that at this stage ? |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you might have realised that after all this time . ’ |
| 4 | Cos people often used to say to me because I 'd , I 'd played everything you could play except golf , and , and er , and I , I , people used to say you did two men 's work and you I , I met a chap one day , this was an instance , I 'm not trying to blow me trumpet do n't think that at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think that at all , ’ Charity said . |
| 6 | You 'd think that with such a bountifull crop to look foreward to , the farmers would be cock a hoop . |
| 7 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 8 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 9 | What arguments can be used to support each of these viewpoints ? |
| 10 | Some small-scale surveys suggest that some young girls do indeed become or remain pregnant with this in mind , but the impact at the national level is not known ( see Murphy 1989 ) . |
| 11 | By some measures incomes are more equally distributed in Japan than in the West , and in ‘ employment income = = Japan 's degree of equality parallels that of some of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe ’ ( Boltho 1975 p.163 ) . |
| 12 | Mr Reeves thinks little of such an idea and would rather see conventional pools built . |
| 13 | It concludes by detailing retention issues and suggesting approaches to the issues made possible by this type of media . |
| 14 | Pay constitutes two-thirds of all current expenditure . |
| 15 | A few men at a time could have manipulated each of these stones into position , yet the collective force of the place feels not reduced accordingly . |
| 16 | Seri I mean due to some physical difficulties or or whatever . |
| 17 | Then , we will contrast each of these with accounts of first meetings with people we know well . |
| 18 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 19 | I 'm going to sit right on this glorious fire and get warm all through to my bones . |
| 20 | He also included cauliflowers , artichokes and sweet fennel ( as opposed to the herb ) , all of which were fairly recent imports from the Continent , suggesting that with such a range of vegetables ‘ a Country Gentleman and Farmer may have every thing at home , and set out a Table fit for a Prince , without being beholden to the Markets ’ . |
| 21 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 22 | He would fill it with his presence , and she did n't want that at all . |
| 23 | That would only upset Marguerite and now she did n't want that at all . |
| 24 | As regards the salaries of the U S A we 've read and seen about so many companies that pay sky-high for v various salaries and other schemes , we do n't want that in this country but we do want a degree of evenness and I would repeat as somebody has already said , that your salary has gone up fifty six percent which is very , very high . |
| 25 | Erm , the local government act nineteen ninety-two permits the auditor to actually advise the council to er matters which we believe that you should consider in full , er er , County erm , Council meeting , and I 'm pleased to confirm that for this year there is nothing of that nature , that er , we would put to you , to refer to . |
| 26 | I 've already broken each in half to make it easier . |
| 27 | I indeed er in the er companies act in nineteen eighty nine the minister himself er argued that for any system to be effective there had to be a distance between regulators and regulations but the only people who have done any inquiry into B C C I which is the Institute er it itself is the mafia regulating the mafia auditors trying to regulate er the the auditors . |
| 28 | Actually Indian sweets , I do n't fancy that at all . |
| 29 | But if comital liegelordship ( that superior bond to which all lesser allegiances must , in case of conflict , yield ) was less advanced in Champagne than in Normandy or Flanders , it completely outclassed that of any other secular or ecclesiastical lord within the county . |
| 30 | In the musiche he continued the solo madrigal tradition of Luzzaschi and Caccini , though with a heightened emotional expressiveness reflecting that of such contemporary poets as Giambattista Marino . |