Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification for them is well established : many local government services are required by national legislation , local variations in needs and resources can be equalized by grant adjustments , the impact of the regressive rating system can be reduced , and so on . |
| 2 | What we 're going to do for them is certainly provide a free of charge product , it 's the numbers |
| 3 | Whilst the problematic nature of the traditional pattern by which responsibilities have been divided between them is well recognised , there is little evidence which can be used to evaluate what would happen if other arrangements were tried . |
| 4 | The difference between them is further revealed by the barriers which each had to overcome in its discovery of the other . |
| 5 | My family 's complete and life for me is just beginning . |
| 6 | ‘ But the most difficult thing about this band for me is actually playing parts live and singing at the same time ! |
| 7 | Surely an Association such as yours is basically run by the officers , it is a certain amount of window dressing having local councillors , if you like , sitting on your executive . |
| 8 | The rest of me is just catching up . |
| 9 | ‘ a somewhat uncomplimentary cartoon of me is now doing the rounds at Capenhurst , ’ said John good-naturedly . |
| 10 | Erm Newark and Sherwood District Council , er er instigating a customer comments procedure , erm whereby you can write or ring or anything at all that you think would improve their services , or anything suitable or anything like that , and there are details about it there , er with erm a flow chart , erm what the action that will be taken if their clients have a look at that , one of them 's just to receive public comments about their performance , I suppose it 's to do with er |
| 11 | It 's still working today , or one of them 's still working today . |
| 12 | I doubt if any of them 's ever seen real blood , except maybe in the Carlton Club . |
| 13 | Yes , each of them is well represented in terms of erm members of the University showing an interest in the arts work in their area , and several of them have members erm who serve on our advisory panel , as indeed Sussex does . |
| 14 | No erm one or other of them is probably taking Neil to karate I think Friday night 's karate |
| 15 | At the end of the day , if , having done all this , you are convinced that one of them is dishonestly taking stock but you can not find out which one , you can dismiss both . |
| 16 | It also featured in a number of high-profile advertising campaigns and American Express even had two 24-carat-gold-plated De Loreans specially made to launch its Gold Card — one of them is now kept in a glass case in a Texas bank . |
| 17 | Former head of the civil service Lord Armstrong comments that : ‘ There are some general principles of organisation , but the application of them is constantly interrupted by short-term political considerations . |
| 18 | But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring . |
| 19 | It is also the more comfortable type of sprung mattress since each part of you is independently supported . |
| 20 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 21 | Herta starts to breathe differently as we kiss ; she is always self-possessed ; every move of mine is coldly monitored . |
| 22 | ‘ Meaning that any friend of mine is automatically going to be pretentious ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That brother of mine is still making his way here , as far as I can tell . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know if that shifty old man of mine is ever goin' to be a credit to 'is fam'ly ; I do n't know there 's any man that can spend more time doin' nothing than Archie can . |
| 25 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 26 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 27 | Well , some of us in football still have principles and one of mine is never to refuse a drink . |
| 28 | Most of it 's vastly populated and punctuated by well defined compact small market towns and villages . |
| 29 | The trouble is that some of it 's still attached and so it 's going start erm bu butting again , growing . |
| 30 | Twelve kilometres to the north-east of it is somewhere better : Sauveterre-de-Béarn , an interesting old place sat up above the Gave d'Oloron . |