Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 2 | Det Ch Insp Roy Lambert said there was nothing to connect the two men with the car . |
| 3 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 4 | But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti . |
| 5 | Photography via the microscope enables everyone to see the same view , and minute movements , e.g. phagocytosis of a bacterium by a white blood cell can be seen in motion and therefore be more easily remembered . |
| 6 | He did n't want everyone to see the marks of his sins . |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 8 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the films , which included Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ the Rye , did nothing to support the claims made for them . |
| 10 | Meeting the demand for veterinary surgeons for the army , while raising the social status of the young profession , did nothing to support the needs of agriculture . |
| 11 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 13 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 14 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 15 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 16 | Decent , affordable public sector housing provides opportunities for wide ranges of people in our country and your government does nothing to promote the right to rent , the ability to get into decent housing where people otherwise would have no such chance . |
| 17 | Now , everyone confronts the same challenge , and Mr Lang is looking for consensus . |
| 18 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 19 | The supporters were happy , the players were happy and everyone agreed the Everton board had pulled off a coup in tempting their most successful manager back to Merseyside . |
| 20 | Everyone agrees the camera loves her ’ |
| 21 | Everyone agrees the republics need all the parctical help they can get to stop them tearing themselves apart . |
| 22 | Everyone agrees the safety of 500 pupils is paramount . |
| 23 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 24 | Everyone got the critical hots for Gotham 's rooftop dominatrix . |
| 25 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 26 | everyone got the same |
| 27 | But when the Conservatives gained power they did nothing to implement the scheme . |
| 28 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |
| 29 | All that we know for certain about his coronation oath is that he promised to preserve the laws of the realm unimpaired and to do nothing touching the dignity of the crown without first obtaining the consent of his prelates and chief magnates . |
| 30 | When the settlers got to Virginia , everyone expected the gentlemen of the party to run things , just as in England . |