Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or something what about the amount of care they would get from a farrier , those horses ? |
| 2 | In short compass , it was held that someone who by reference to purely biological criteria is undoubtedly of the male sex at birth remains a male , notwithstanding a diagnosis of transsexualism , medical and surgical intervention to alter external sexual characteristics , and adoption of a female role or gender identity . |
| 3 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 4 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 5 | In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp . |
| 6 | In consequence , the social scientists have much to say about teenagers becoming prostitutes , football hooligans , drug-addicts and jobless ; they have little to say about young people seeking middle-class respectability and nothing whatsoever about heirs to dukedoms or oil fortunes . |
| 7 | It featured no film material , no exterior shooting and nothing whatsoever in the way of visual effects — such a department just did not exist in 1949 . |
| 8 | The Party 's tentacles reached into every nook and cranny of people 's lives , leaving them little room for manoeuvre and none whatsoever for criticism of the regime . |
| 9 | There are four interviews and reported comments with supporters of the latter and none whatsoever for the former . |
| 10 | One one between Peterborough and Blackpool and one one between Shrewsbury and Blackburn in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 11 | This distinction appears potentially important and one which in turn generates other questions . |
| 12 | An attempt to answer this question , and one which in the opinion of S. G. F. Brandon shows some consciousness of the significance of the factor of time , was made by a late Zoroastrian priest renowned for his orthodoxy . |
| 13 | We had tourist visitors of every age and family , and some quaint scenes were witnessed on the upgoing — many of the native children ( and one who in a few years after might be called an old man ) found it a profitable , and I doubt not , too , a pleasurable work , leading the tourists to the top . |
| 14 | You know in older times about folk having stored up lots and lots lots of money ? |
| 15 | There was lots of skiing and lots lots of things to do . |
| 16 | First , he uses the verb ‘ conducts ’ Second , he poured vitriolic criticism on soloists and wind players , but none whatever on the conducteur\conductor : not only was there no mention of tapping , but ‘ the choruses go extremely well ’ . |
| 17 | Feeding your fish is probably the most important aspect of the hobby , but one which in terms of technical and specific advice seems to me a very grey area indeed , not helped particularly by product-leaflets/literature or indeed product labels as designed by the fish food manufacturers . |
| 18 | Communication of data via computerised and electronic means is a relatively new mode of communications but one which in the space of about thirty years has revolutionised the way in which we use , store and transmit information and data . |
| 19 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 20 | Of course , unless the facts were absolutely clear , it would be foolish to prosecute under section 1 an offence of obtaining by deception , since something which at first looked like larceny by a trick might turn out to have involved a transfer of the ownership , in which case only section 15 would meet the prosecution 's needs , if I am right . |