Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there . |
| 2 | And my son has received none of the two hundred and eight |
| 3 | Suppose a man knows nothing of trusts and trustees , but has heard something of the separate use , leaves property — say £1,000 — to his married daughter ‘ for her separate use ’ . |
| 4 | We might have expected to see something of the great movies , Gold Rush , Modern Times , Limelight … |
| 5 | I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader . |
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| 8 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 9 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
| 10 | However , it was a pity that Greg Lewin was interviewed by somebody only knowledgeable about corncrakes ; it would have been interesting to know whether Greg has done anything about the diabolical fingering needed on the ancient form of the racket . |
| 11 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
| 12 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid this dog affair has got everyone in a nasty mood , ’ Uncle Alfred explained . |
| 14 | They had come to expect nothing from a disenfranchised people except violence and anarchy . |
| 15 | He will , however , be expected to do something about the severe imbalances that are masked by the wonderful overall figures for economic growth . |
| 16 | Each of these three processes has contributed something to the changing broadcasting scene . |
| 17 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 18 | We want to do something for the voluntary sector . |
| 19 | In recent years funding and management of the health service has become something of a political football . |
| 20 | The new giant tractor has brought a welcome boost in power to West End Farm 's farming and contracting businesses and has become something of a local landmark . |
| 21 | And excluding people from benefit has become something of a consuming passion within the cash-limited , pressurised Department of Social Insecurity . |
| 22 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |
| 23 | Leaving aside the actor 's film plans , the restaurant has become something of an epic production in itself . |
| 24 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 25 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 26 | But over the past few years fashion for men has experienced something of a silent revolution , with smoother lines and looser fits becoming ever more popular . |
| 27 | She had not , Franca found on opening it , ventured to hang anything inside the long wardrobe which stretched the length of the big bedroom . |
| 28 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 29 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 30 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |