Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 2 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 3 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 4 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 5 | Everyone inside knows or speculates endlessly on the politics of power implicit in the most minute gradations of change . |
| 6 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 7 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 8 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 9 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 10 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 12 | Someone somewhere wants a |
| 13 | Surely someone somewhere knows who killed Ann Heron and that person could ease the pain for her heartbroken family . |
| 14 | After all the way in which you talk to someone greatly determines how they will understand your message . |
| 15 | Milovan Djilas , who observed both Stalin and Tito at close quarters , has made the point that self-abasement too is necessary to the system : everyone is loyal to the leader , owes everything to his inspiration , is worthless without him , until someone else is leader : that someone suddenly loses his modesty . |
| 16 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sure someone already has , ’ Rain said , and thought of Tim and Joseph and wondered how they were linked in murder . |
| 18 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 19 | It is very easy when someone finally opens their filter sufficiently to say ‘ I feel angry about such and such ’ or ‘ I feel fearful ’ to turn around and tell them why a Christian should not feel that way . |
| 20 | I bring the conversation round to our prisoners , but he does n't know where they were taken , or what we might do when someone finally comes . |
| 21 | if someone just says sort of , straight off and asks you especially if you you think , Ooh he 's asking me here maybe they 're not , maybe they are . |
| 22 | ‘ We are delighted if someone just goes around their office rattling a collecting tin , though obviously the dafter the idea , the more fun the whole thing becomes . ’ |
| 23 | And who , who has seen certain films where someone just walks into it , shows his driving licence and he buys a gun , yeah ? |
| 24 | That will check , McLeish thought , of course it will , someone just has to do it all . |
| 25 | The data comes in almost without intervention , fills in the pages , and someone just checks it to make sure it fits and erm that 's a great system . |
| 26 | Contact has been destroyed if someone thoughtlessly buts in . |
| 27 | He said , his tone measured and heavy with menace , ‘ I believe that , when someone deliberately inflicts damage , it is a matter for the police . ’ |
| 28 | If someone deliberately flouts the law in that manner , they only have themselves to blame for the consequences . |
| 29 | Someone close brings you great pleasure and joy now . |
| 30 | If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’ |