Example sentences of "[indef pn] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 2 | All these people want to do is hit someone before the lights go out . |
| 3 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 4 | After breakfast , the first washing-up of the day and then Mum and the girls would start to prepare dinner , for everyone except the elite had ‘ dinner ’ in the middle of the day . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the local radio station in the capital of Spain , Unión Radio , gave out news of the insurrection in Spanish Morocco , confirming what everyone except the government had deemed imminent for months . |
| 6 | What 's being bid for Oxford United and more important who 's doing the bidding no-one except the Manor Ground management knows … no statement … no facts … no figures will be released until a deal is done … contracts are signed and the money is in the bank … |
| 7 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 8 | When he spoke , his matter-of-fact tone did more to reassure everyone than the actual words of hope that he spoke . |
| 9 | It helps nobody if a law is seen to create myths — Contract Journal . |
| 10 | Nobody since the first Napoleon made his Corsican brothers kings of half Europe had made the political code of the Latin world of the Mafia so obviously the basis of his policy as Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 11 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |
| 12 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 13 | Because I found with Lindsey , anyway , with Ryan I had no trouble or nothing cos the only |
| 14 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 15 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
| 16 | Addressing the effect solves nothing if the cause remains . |
| 17 | Bankers , accountants , commercial and public services , and advisory services all provide a very important contribution to the farming sector but all this sound advice could come to little or nothing if the human factor , that is the farmer or his family , could not translate that advice into practice on the farm . |
| 18 | A person can insure against death within a specified period , the policy paying nothing if the insured survives . |
| 19 | I would have suspected nothing if the counterfeit Taplow had not made reference to Purgatory . |
| 20 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 21 | There is no evidence for this belief except one doubtful piece of hearsay ; but it is a first principle of modern reactions to Freud and psychoanalysis that facts count for nothing if the mythology is appealing enough . |
| 22 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 23 | Bringing back capital punishment would do nothing if the drug problem was not solved . |
| 24 | IMAGINATIVE design and meticulous production methods count for nothing if the floor layer gets it wrong . |
| 25 | He said nothing until the machine was ready for take-off , moving forward to the main runway . |
| 26 | ‘ After Brian 's album had been recorded , a tour had been tentatively planned , but to have a band sitting around doing nothing until the album came out was n't realistic . |
| 27 | Do nothing until the replacement window is on site , then check the dimensions . |
| 28 | I ate nothing until the day arrived , and all morning I waited impatiently for the coach . |
| 29 | and would hang about for two or thr I mean when I was on the dredger them men would st they would come aboard the dredger and wait there , do nothing until the boat came up the river . |
| 30 | They heard nothing until the sound of the toilet flushing . |