Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if Mrs Williams — and how very grateful Morse was that she 'd agreed to his earlier telephone request to be present ! — if Mrs Williams could possibly think of some diversion … some talk , some walk . |
| 2 | She settled down to tell him how old Alan was while he leant forward , listening with pleasure to the slightly nasal accent of Stoke on Trent . |
| 3 | Dorothea realised that she did not know how old Alida was but it must be around her own age . |
| 4 | She told me how much more exciting Willesden was than rural Bedfordshire , despite the once a year trips to Milton Keynes . |
| 5 | My big fear after Old Trafford is that the selectors will again follow Gooch blind . |
| 6 | Stripped of some of their emotional overtones , the main issues in English-speaking Africa are as follows : |
| 7 | What has been happening in Latin America is that the growth of education has been much faster than structural change in society , with the result that some of the potential value of education for social mobility is lost . |
| 8 | The most distressing aspect of the health situation in Latin America is that the diseases are avoidable . |
| 9 | One of the main criticisms levelled at US and European transnational corporations in Asia , Africa and Latin America is that their operations are predominantly of the export processing variety , employing low wage workers ( mainly ‘ nimblefingered ’ young women ) in monotonous and often physically debilitating labour , the products of which constitute a small proportion of the value-added of the final commodity . |
| 10 | Anyone notice how coy Macca was when asked about Batts ? |
| 11 | The other prolonged study of the flora of the Outer Hebrides was that initiated by Miss M. S. Campbell . |
| 12 | Another problem for Democratic Russia is that it , too , is splitting . |
| 13 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
| 14 | And one thing he did know about the real Sandra was that she had a very low tolerance for boredom , and that she got bored very easily . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ We all know how good Shearer is but Ken 's growing in confidence and stature with every game . |
| 16 | What had happened at Great Casterton was that the discovery of a wall in a place where it could not possibly exist , according to my ideas of the site , had set in motion all my mental defences . |
| 17 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 18 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |
| 19 | The most surprising feature of the laminated sediments of the eastern equatorial Pacific is that they are preserved at all in such widespread oxygenated deep sea environments . |
| 20 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 21 | And I I think some of the lessons from Eastern Europe are that they have tried to go from one old system to a new system at an incredibly swift pace . |
| 22 | The problem about renouncing medicine in early-Victorian Britain was that there was no other very obvious way to live if one were a naturalist . |
| 23 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 24 | The only blot for scintillating Wigan was that Offiah handed Great Britain coach Mal Reilly a World Cup scare after limping off with damaged knee tendons . |
| 25 | So who would the star-crossed Arthur be if he were a human being ? |
| 26 | ‘ She appreciates how busy Diana is but this shows just how loyal she is to her friends . |
| 27 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 28 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 29 | Treating the twin-T of figure 8.10(a) quantitatively by the method of node-pair analysis , Kirchhoff 's current law applied at nodes X and Y respectively gives On collecting terms these equations become Now , provided that the twin-T is unloaded , or Substituting for from equation ( 8.30 ) in equation ( 8.29 ) and substituting for from equation ( 8.28 ) Hence the transfer function for the unloaded twin-T is and the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between the output and input is The behaviour of as a function of frequency according to equation ( 8.32 ) is plotted in figure 8.10(b) . |
| 30 | But like he goes on on and on , do n't he about how wonderful Susan is and then you know he gets drunk and that 's it is n't it ? |