Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests . |
| 2 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 3 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 4 | The Vendor is not in relation to the Business a party to any agreement , practice or arrangement which contravenes or is subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Resale Prices Act 1976 or the Competition Act 1980 or which contravenes the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or which would or might either result in a reference to a ‘ consumer trade practice ’ within the meaning of Section 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or to the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee under Part II of that Act or contravene any of the provisions of Articles 85 or 86 of the Treaty of Rome or any other anti-trust or consumer protection legislation . |
| 5 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |
| 6 | Either that or we write a couple of variations on the end of this and we say the general access conforms to this but in their case , the other one is pre-booked , the extras and they have a booking schedule . |
| 7 | It 's either that or you 'd no job , and |
| 8 | This compared with 26 per cent of the women without an intimate tie with husband or boyfriend , but who reported a confiding relationship with another person ( seen at least weekly ) , and with 41 per cent of those who had a confidante seen less than weekly or who had no such relationship at all . |
| 9 | The proposal for a Rhyl relief road could mean yet another where it crosses the A525 . |
| 10 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 11 | The justification for this practice was that the dealer who could do business with such clients would thrive in the dealing room proper where he stood a chance of getting reasonable leads . |
| 12 | ‘ Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded . |
| 13 | A small proportion of the absorbed light will sometimes be re-radiated and it is this that we term the fluorescence . |
| 14 | but at the same time I would want to afford er , you as heads of departments er er everybody 's heads of department a little bit of leeway what i what if , what wa wa we have to be careful about this that we set a standard but allow a little leeway because all departments are slightly different and want to approach things |
| 15 | Its why I say because of this that we have a stake in terms of our own enlightened self-interest in understanding better developing countries . |
| 16 | It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy . |
| 17 | Apparently , she was so upset by this that she had a nose job . |
| 18 | The girl was so frightened by this that she opened the door herself . |
| 19 | Later that year , when the giant 's favourite boar was killed by an arrow fired from an unknown bow , he was so enraged by this that he took the first-born of all his tenants and threatened to kill them unless the guilty one came forward or some other person informed on them . |
| 20 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |
| 21 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 22 | Only you made it clear that we had no future . ’ |
| 23 | Once we recognise that holists and individualists are pursuing separate interests , it becomes clear that we need a scheme which will accommodate them both , and I have argued that the Annales school offers us the seeds of such an approach . |
| 24 | ‘ We have made it clear that we accept the principal Father Caden is talking about . ’ |
| 25 | It seems clear that we face a similar ( though not identical ) situation with regard to old age abuse . |
| 26 | We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds . |
| 27 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it clear that we have no intention of raising the rate of VAT either before or after the election . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made it perfectly clear that we have no intention of increasing VAT . |
| 29 | It is quite clear that we have a climate for recovery in this country , with falling unit labour costs , inflation below the European Community average and interest rates fully competitive with those of our competitors . |
| 30 | Whether or not this is true of all of us , it is clear that we have the ability to react , when the situation demands it , to the unspoken sound of a written text . |