Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 2 | I do n't like the way I look , most of the time , for all the reasons I 've just given . |
| 3 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 4 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 5 | Mm well that 's one of the reasons I have n't involved |
| 6 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 7 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 8 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 9 | For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal . |
| 10 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 11 | As I have altered the way I teach mathematics , I have found pupils have been more highly motivated and have demonstrated skills I had not suspected they possessed . |
| 12 | Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence . |
| 13 | There are sundry procedural steps which immediately follow the deposit of the order , and a number which in fact precede it ( for example , the local authority resolution under the 1973 Act and the deposit of the plans I have just mentioned ) . |
| 14 | Of the programmes I 've watched-not all of them , let me confess-only the third , on the dhow in the Gulf seemed to enter into a wholly unknown , and dangerous environment , a way of life I could never have imagined . |
| 15 | Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across . |
| 16 | In some cases I have deliberately not mentioned a particular plant because I consider it to be unsuitable for pressing , but I am sure that there are many plants not listed that will press very well . |
| 17 | ‘ They are the worst jamming ropes I have ever used ; there should be a public health warning on each one . ’ |
| 18 | The strengths of the theory are , first that it explains the perceptual phenomena I have just described , second that the brain has a real need for the operation it postulates , and third that it gives a role to a prominent but hitherto unexplained anatomical characteristic of the neocortex . |
| 19 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 20 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 21 | I sweated and strained with it , even in quite a light wind , and my hands grew warm despite the heavy-duty welding-gloves I had on . |
| 22 | You 're a marvellous worker ; and what 's more , you make the best currant buns I 've ever tasted . |
| 23 | From our package , we could readily cover not only the proposals I have just described but also our anti-recession measures to kick-start the recovery . |
| 24 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 25 | If unc is the wavefunction at a point on the detecting screen corresponding to the electron 's having traversed the first slit , and P , the associated probability , and if unc and P , are the similar quantities for slit 2 , the rules I have just stated imply unc Then , in the case when both slits are open , the probability unc let us call it ) is just given by unc The quantities unc and unc are what we called probability amplitudes ( p. 88 ) . |
| 26 | The first depends on the views I have already expressed . |
| 27 | That 's the longest two minutes I 've ever seen . |
| 28 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 29 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 30 | Thing is I have n't got that much work this week , or I 've just got lots of little things to do but nothing major , I have n't got any big essays I 've just got lots of , you know , translations and |