Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the amendment is carried , it becomes the substantive motion and when it is put to the vote you vote against it since you would prefer to give nothing rather than £15 . |
| 2 | He 'd have preferred Bernard to say nothing rather than patronize him . |
| 3 | Would you prefer to have nothing rather than something ? |
| 4 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 5 | A set of four small pastel drawings depicting nothing more than burning leaves , haystacks , and a solitary tree convincingly carry nothing less than 400 years of European history — from the displacement of Catholicism , the enlightenment , the Holocaust to the decay of capitalism . |
| 6 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 7 | We can believe nothing only if this too is made into a belief . |
| 8 | Returning to learning is not easy for everyone especially if you 've had time out to bring up your kids . |
| 9 | How could you kiss someone properly when you knew they had let you sit there for hours waiting for them while they went off and had dinner with someone else ? |
| 10 | Sympathy with the person involved is often mentioned as the reason for cautioning someone rather than charging them . |
| 11 | Examples include warning someone so as to render police investigation fruitless ( Hinchcliffe v Sheldon [ 1955 ] 1 WLR 1207 ) and drinking alcohol after driving to frustrate the breath test procedure ( Ingleton v Dibble [ 1972 ] 1 QB 480 ) . |
| 12 | Cos at any time I mean , if we 're here I mean there 's always someone in cos I 'm working nights so I 'm here in the days . |
| 13 | Now , where a contract is unenforceable against someone merely because he is a minor , a contract of guarantee is enforceable against the guarantor . |
| 14 | Please , can you find out from someone just where Mr. Andrew is ? " |
| 15 | Except perhaps in rather trivial matters , there is no real sense that one can expect assistance from someone just because they are your brother or your sister . |
| 16 | Although the government has told authorities they should not refuse a fast track assessment to someone just because they can not establish ordinary residence , there is nothing to say they may not . |
| 17 | You do n't not spend time on someone just because they are n't about any longer . |
| 18 | ’ It 's more satisfying to make an arrest but it 's more practical to put someone off because while you 're in the back room charging someone , other shoplifters are having a field day in the store . ’ |
| 19 | It was most peculiar sitting there among all the cameras wearing an earphone and talking to someone more than two hundred miles away . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | You are a ‘ soft touch ’ and take the line of least resistance ( ie ‘ tip ’ someone even though you did n't want to , buy something you do n't really want ) . |
| 22 | you ca n't talk candidly with someone even though you want |
| 23 | The manager 's priority is to fill the gap and he therefore may accept the offer of someone even though there may be cost implications , |
| 24 | Last week at work — she always seems to have someone there when I am . |
| 25 | On being asked by someone else whether she saw God as male or female , she replied ‘ Neither : I see him as an absolute supreme Being ! ’ . |
| 26 | A person is no more entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of a tort committed against someone else than he is entitled to sue in respect of loss which he suffers by reason of breach of a contract to which he is not a party . |
| 27 | SIR , — Most commentators would describe ‘ life-terminating acts without explicit request of patient ’ ( LAWER ) as non-voluntary euthanasia but the Dutch do not because euthanasia was defined for the Remmelink report only as ‘ intentionally taking the life of a person upon his or her explicit request by someone else than the person concerned ’ . |
| 28 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 29 | It was a record of Art Gillham , the Whispering Pianist , singing ‘ I Had Someone Else Before I Had You ’ . |
| 30 | I pretended I was someone else because when I 'm vibing with someone about other people 's records , I can pull it off . |