Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
| 2 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 3 | The office block on the Albert Embankment which houses his penthouse looks nothing special from the outside — a drab 1960s monstrosity in concrete and glass . |
| 4 | While EC competition law has nothing equivalent to the wide ‘ public-interest ’ test of UK law , Article 85(3) does permit the granting of exemptions for agreements between firms that can be shown to produce beneficial effects . |
| 5 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
| 6 | Written and produced by Paul Simpson , the man behind Serious Intention 's garage classic ‘ You Do n't Know ’ , Peacetime 's recent track perfectly illustrates one half of the Nineties disco equation . |
| 7 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
| 8 | The Arabian peninsula contains one half of the non-Communist world 's oil reserves , Saudi Arabia 's proven oil reserves are fourfold those of USA and UK together . |
| 9 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 10 | He could do nothing more until the various reports he 'd asked for came in , and he could n't hope for anything much before late afternoon . |
| 11 | She simply was n't destined to get any rest , so she might as well do something useful with the empty hours . |
| 12 | ‘ Men have authority over women because Allah has made one superior to the other , and because they spend their wealth to maintain them ’ says the Koran . |
| 13 | He 'd done something dishonest for the first time in his business life , and it sat uneasily on his conscience . |
| 14 | Afterwards , Ruth could not remember that she had done anything unusual on the twenty-third of December . |
| 15 | It would like something similar to the G-24 that co-ordinates western aid to Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ If we do n't see something sensible in the next 24 hours then there is no point in carrying on , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 18 | The parents say they 've not been told anything official by the Faithful Foundation . |
| 19 | From the very first , I had sensed something wrong about the long-haired Mamba … for one thing a man should not be that beautiful . |
| 20 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 21 | He thought he could detect something odd in the other man 's voice — a faint sing-song tone ; a little , obsessive rhythm , lilting and mad . |
| 22 | Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 23 | Exhausting because there is never enough time it seems between being invited " to pitch " for the new business and actually getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 24 | Everyone who took part in this charitable challenge thoroughly enjoyed the day , and we all felt we had contributed something worthwhile to the local community . |
| 25 | I was frequently told of the necessity for study overseas in order to do anything worthwhile in the academic field because facilities in China were so ‘ backward ’ . |
| 26 | But that should not make anybody complacent about the developmental processes . |
| 27 | We also find something close to the marked language characteristic of fabliaux in Dame Sirith 's parting words to Wilekin . |
| 28 | ‘ You find anything useful from the scene-of-crime report ? |
| 29 | I do not have anything personal against the three men but I think it is an unmitigated disaster for the children of our country . |
| 30 | ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’ |