Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ . |
| 2 | For nothing much , apart from Mr Lamont 's replacement by Kenneth Clarke , has happened . |
| 3 | With so much specialised knowledge , which would qualify her for nothing much except a pilot 's certificate , with her wellingtons over which the mud of many tides had dried , she had the air of something aquatic , a demon from the depths , perhaps . |
| 4 | For nothing much . |
| 5 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 6 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 7 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 8 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 9 | The union is as yet unconvinced that BT 's intentions are to use the robots for nothing more than to make their members ' jobs ‘ more interesting ’ . |
| 10 | He wished for nothing more at that moment than to join his brother and be part of the scene during the heady days before and during the coronation . |
| 11 | I could wish for nothing more ( unless , of course , his daughter followed , bearing a Toshiba lap-top computer , and skipped down the hill to school ) . |
| 12 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 13 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 14 | It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 15 | It was to be a local public relations exercise , bought and paid for nothing more . |
| 16 | She asked me for nothing more , she did n't want to cause me problems , but I could n't just walk away from her . |
| 17 | The death of Ecgberht and the emergence of a new king , Ealhmund , subsequently identified by a later Canterbury scribe ( ASC F , s.a. 784 ) as the father of Ecgberht ( ASC A , Preface ; s.a. 855 ) ; ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , king of the West Saxons ( 802–39 ) , was probably what led to this renewed involvement , for nothing more is heard of Ealhmund nor did any successor to him appear in Kent , even as subregulus . |
| 18 | I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you . |
| 19 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 20 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 21 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 22 | He told the Britons they could look for nothing more , no money , no troops , no aid . |
| 23 | I ask for nothing more . |
| 24 | You have paid , Monsieur , for nothing more than a pack of lies . ’ |
| 25 | For nothing more than being true to himself . ) |
| 26 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 27 | Always at the back of his mind was a serious actor trying to break out of the ‘ Carry On ’ mould , but while he was wanted for nothing more , says Percival , he was ready to go on showing that he was better than anyone else . |
| 28 | If this was not so , why would it get funding ; you do n't get something for nothing these days … |
| 29 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 30 | To the embarrassment of Verdeţ , it became clear that the strikers at Lupeni would settle for nothing less than meeting the Comrade face to face and putting their demands to him . |