Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the right hon. Member has the evidence , he should place it before the Home Secretary , the police and other appropriate authorities rather than come here , in the time off that he has from his interviews on Sky , to make wild accusations about everyone involved in immigration matters . |
| 2 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 3 | Some decide that computers have no place whatsoever , some regard computers as cheap and reliable " clerical " labour fit for nothing other than " payroll crunching " , others find a niche for computing in the successful management of the business . |
| 4 | ‘ Doos n't thou ever give it away for nothing o'butty , ’ she had said , urgently , in that soft Forest tongue . |
| 5 | ‘ Doos n't thou ever give it away for nothing o'butty . ’ |
| 6 | Mesh sizes were often as small as 1¾ or 1½ inches ( about 4 – 6 centimetres ) from knot to knot — poachers ' nets indeed , for nothing worthwhile could pass through . |
| 7 | Food must be bagged and boxed , and taken to the patient , for nothing nutritious will be otherwise provided . |
| 8 | At these times Jane was assailed by self-doubt ; by fears as to whether their relationship would decline — for nothing human remains static . |
| 9 | There was another couple in there , and it enabled Paul and Emily to have time to look about them undisturbed . |
| 10 | Hence , although older workers did not contribute a large proportion of the work-force , their placing in the economy and the nature of the post-war economic problem made contemporary concern about them understandable . |
| 11 | Additionally , length and shape need not be dependent upon absolute physical size but could be coded in a way that represented information about them relative to any individual input letter string . |
| 12 | We need to think that why new babies are so prone to cold injury and a lot of the reasons , can I take that down , are very obvious if you think about them cold injury is the same as hypothermia . |
| 13 | I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London |
| 14 | gone off them fabulous one . |
| 15 | Think of feeling a sensation in one 's knee-or noticing a cup , having the usual inattentive visual experience of a room , feeling good or depressed about nothing specific , being struck by the fact of a recent death , wanting to go to bed , deciding not to , momentarily intending to watch the news on television , picturing a face , thinking a question or a sentence , writing one , having a dream . |
| 16 | ( iii ) So too are distinguishable the contents of moods , such as feeling good about nothing specific , despite their difference from the contents of both perception and sensation . |
| 17 | Feeling good about nothing specific is not , so to speak , an unattached or free-floating phenomenon , unpossessed or unhad. ( iv ) Finally , and clearly , all of the contents so far mentioned are different in character from those which get definition by way of language-or rather , get definition only or more explicitly by way of language . |
| 18 | ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops . |
| 19 | In the wake of Einsturzende Neubauten and , more recently , Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy ( both of whom swing a pretty mean power tool ) Faust 's hardware assault of the senses could easily be yawned off as nothing new . |
| 20 | As to the first , it is not surprising that poorer citizens , especially those from more distant demes , found it hard to walk in to the frequent meetings of the Council ( though the argument from distance should not be overstated : Andokides ( i.38 ) mentions an early morning walk of twenty miles from Laurion to Athens as nothing special ) . |
| 21 | But hidden in the boy 's answering nod was an equal contempt for Moran 's work , which he regarded as nothing short of voluntary slavery . |
| 22 | Rose , violet and even myrrh-scented wines were regarded as nothing short of celebrational nectar . |
| 23 | I remember in particular the huge smile that he had on his face when the Government were defeated in a way which can be described in parliamentary terms as nothing short of absolutely remarkable . |
| 24 | ‘ There has been much grievous suffering for everyone involved in this case . |
| 25 | Tomorrow , if electronic books are to evolve , we will need to see a mature market emerging providing stable , ongoing demand for new products at prices that make sense for everyone involved in the new industry . |
| 26 | Gerry said : ‘ Victory over Tipperary was an outstanding reward for everyone involved with this team since the season began . |
| 27 | Gerry said : ‘ Victory over Tipperary was an outstanding reward for everyone involved with this team since the season began . |
| 28 | Have we any answer to the jibe , ‘ If it is the right thing to do , you would be doing it now instead of waiting for everyone else' ? ’ |
| 29 | Four-course meals that last four hours are marathons for everyone concerned . |
| 30 | WHAT the Taylor Report offered was a chance for everyone concerned in soccer — officials , players , spectators , politicians even — to sit down and create a blueprint for the game for the next 100 years . |