Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 2 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 3 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 4 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 5 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 6 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 7 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 8 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 9 | When two distinctly different vowel sounds occur one after the other and must be pronounced individually , a hyphen should be used where another language might employ an accent , eg co-operation/and not cooperation , thus avoiding the natural wish to pronounce the double o as /u/ or /u : / . |
| 10 | ‘ I only meant that not many people know anything about the old gods these days . ’ |
| 11 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 12 | Nobody could believe that the Government do anything for the British coal industry because they are absent from the debate and have not done anything to help our plight . |
| 13 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 14 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 15 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 16 | None of this implies of course that babies know anything about the external world at all . |
| 17 | Two other extremely good chapters include one on the granivorous genus Pogonomyrmex and the exciting area of cooperative colony foundation in Atta leafcutting ants . |
| 18 | The image , of course , centres around the fact that faith and doubt have something of the same curious relationship as health and sickness . |
| 19 | This and other double bed patterning can be enhanced by the use of a colour changer — Brother have one for the double bed ( the KR900 ) as well as one for single bed knitting ( the KHC820A ) . |