Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've taught myself to speak French , German and Spanish for shows I have done on the continent . |
| 2 | But they still do get nurses due for retirement who have nowhere to go apart from a special retirement home for others in the same profession . |
| 3 | You were supposed to get home leaves but every time I was due for mine they used to stop it . |
| 4 | When your policy becomes due for renewal there will be no need to complete a fresh application and direct debit instruction . |
| 5 | Some of those homes may already have been hocked by granny to pay for care in her declining years ; and house prices may be depressed as inheritors who already own their homes sell those they inherit . |
| 6 | Transfer to the BA Hons Irish Studies is possible for students who successfully complete the first year of the Diploma of Higher Education in Irish Studies ( see page 151 ) . |
| 7 | It should also be possible for students who have not achieved their goals by the end of the fifth year to make good in the sixth form or at college . |
| 8 | In addition to the General Development Order , it is possible for Parliament itself to grant specific planning permission . |
| 9 | ‘ By forming groups such as ours , ’ says Rona , ‘ it became possible for people who would never otherwise have met , to compare ideas . ’ |
| 10 | Within a department it must be possible for people who have particular interests and aptitudes for teaching to take on a greater share of the load . |
| 11 | Is it possible for people who are not native speakers of a particular language to be fully aware of its social dimensions ? |
| 12 | It should therefore still be possible for graduates who have happy memories of meat and two veg in the Venetian Gothic building to revisit their old haunt . |
| 13 | As soon as children start to feel upset about food their appetite disappears and the process of eating becomes much more difficult . |
| 14 | In what follows I have tried to be explicit and specific about experiences which are by their nature woolly and indeterminate , resisting expression . |
| 15 | If you are right about procedure you might gain one or two more marks . |
| 16 | Member states were allowed a discretion as to whether to include a state of the art defence and its inclusion is controversial as states which do have the defence could become testing grounds for new products . |
| 17 | Semi-legends of private collecting during the Soviet regime , which , for the sake of brevity , I can not elaborate on here , depict a strange world where protecting or completely concealing collections from the authorities was possible through partners who were free from political investigation , or through extensive gifts to museums or directly to the ‘ inner circle ’ . |
| 18 | I feel sorry for people who have n't . |
| 19 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 20 | I know it 's silly , but I always feel so sorry for people who are compelled to steal . " |
| 21 | Mrs Di Brown , a former secretary of Yarm Conservatives who now lives in Abbey Road , Darlington , said she felt sorry for people who had waited for an hour or more . |
| 22 | I feel very sorry for people who have to work for their living now , I really do . |
| 23 | You ca n't expect him to be grateful for things we did together when we were in love — when we were working happily together . |
| 24 | Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b . |
| 25 | They were seriously deficient for people who moved jobs and , often , inadequate for widows . |
| 26 | What , we may ask Holt , happens to the child who , dissatisfied at home , seeks in vain for guardians who would suit him ? |
| 27 | In the division 's other match , Oxted Green were far too strong for Rother who suffered the penalty prescribed by the rules for fielding an unregistered player . |
| 28 | Father Peter McGuinness , the parish priest and a man of gentle understatement , says this is going to be very confusing for tourists who want to pay homage to Inniskeen 's most famous son . |
| 29 | was far too erm advanced for people who had never done the subject before . |
| 30 | As children turned up as usual for school they saw their classrooms wrecked , and the image has left it 's mark . |