Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed . |
| 2 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 3 | There was very little noise as no-one had arrived — between twenty and thirty people were in the room — and we had this teeny stereo system about as big as a transistor radio for music . |
| 4 | It was somewhere along the lane between Nunes and Hadleigh but so much vegetation had grown up that spring that everything looked different . |
| 5 | The notion of tacit consent gains further plausibility when one sees that a possibility of legitimate resistance or revolution follows from the idea that the ultimate basis of authority is the ‘ will and determination of the majority ’ . |
| 6 | History of English Literature if nobody wants to do it . |
| 7 | So that is why , being a good boy scouts , and girl guides that you are you are gon na put things in the car so that you 're , you are prepared for wet weather , or cold weather erm , such as an old blanket or something to sit on er , because we like you to sit upon a bank as far away from the traffic as possible |
| 8 | There existed no organization to cope with the rising dangers of German espionage nor one to obtain secret intelligence on German military expansion . |
| 9 | They may think this is high-status play because nobody knows what they 're thinking . |
| 10 | This begins with the figure impinging powerfully from a distance , in this case as one walks into St Martin 's at Landshut , more powerfully than other things in the field of view . |
| 11 | So effective is this defence that nothing hunts skunks — and the skunks seem to know it , judging from the jaunty and self-confident way in which they bustle about their business . |
| 12 | There is a further division when one includes Northern Ireland , where the community is divided along mutually exclusive lines ( see Chapter 9 ) : a few families in the province still speak the Irish form of Gaelic . |
| 13 | Yes , said his critics , but it was a different story if anyone tried to get access to the information behind those methods . |
| 14 | It has often been an uphill struggle and one wonders if they have given up . |
| 15 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 16 | ‘ You just take your bag through another entrance and no-one knows what 's in it — drugs , weapons or whatever , ’ Tamerlan Musajev told the Swedish news agency TT yesterday . |
| 17 | They get top coaching and everyone has a great time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , have some tea and something to eat . |
| 19 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 20 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 21 | A bullet-proof glass screen sealed the public gallery and everyone entering the building was subjected to a body search . |
| 22 | ’ Oh it 's most interesting , I mean you take a wrong turning and everybody follows you . |
| 23 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |
| 24 | And the pressures are probably much greater within the public sector , if only because of the difficulty of obtaining further employment in the public sector if one has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons . |
| 25 | This was part of a wider strategy throughout the public sector which was based on the simple ideological premise that the private sector had everything to teach the public sector and nothing to learn . |
| 26 | So is the formula for the famous cheese soufflé which so wonderfully conceals melting whole poached eggs , an old dish of French cookery and one served by Boulestin at a luncheon given at his restaurant to celebrate the publication by Cassells on 26 September 1936 , of the autobiography entitled Myself , My Two Countries . |
| 27 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 28 | For one thing , the victuallers were never able to secure a majority on the council , and for another , a substantial number of the men in the victualling guilds had other interest — grocers and fishmongers were among the most important wool exporters at this period and one does not know how far individuals actually practised the trade of their own guild — so it may have been less in their interest than has sometimes been thought to keep food prices high ( 84 , pp.251–3 ; 104 , pp.77–80 ; 109 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , Katie , she 's an old miser and everyone borrows money off her or else they buy the things you knit off her . |
| 30 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |