Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 2 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 3 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 4 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 5 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 6 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 7 | The Vevay Beauty range covers everything from the latest cosmetics to skin and hair care — every product thoroughly clinically tested and selected for you individually to suit your colouring and skin type . |
| 8 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 9 | Back in Baidoa , little Issi knows nothing of the complex politics behind his hunger . |
| 10 | The second , call it " soft " conventionalism , insists that the law of a community includes everything within the implicit extension of these conventions . |
| 11 | This declared ambition to reach a broad readership beyond the closed bastions of academia brings one to the first fissure in the book . |
| 12 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 13 | There were several discernible influences at work here — one was undoubtedly her father 's piping , which suggested decorations to the melodic line at North-east songs not always accustomed to such , and the other was acquaintance with young English revival singers who had incorporated into their singing styles something of the sean nos tradition of the West of Ireland . |
| 14 | The end of the road to Flamborough Head brings one to the octagonal old lighthouse , built of stone in 1674 by Sir John Clayton . |
| 15 | Parliament changes nothing in the physical world by passing laws . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 17 | This is true but Hong Kong form means nothing to the average punter . |
| 18 | This fat includes everything from the obvious fats like butter and oil to those hidden in cakes , biscuits and fried foods . |
| 19 | Pearl uses none of the electronic or ‘ sound enhancing ’ techniques currently fashionable , and aims to concentrate on extracting from the original grooves the essence of music . |
| 20 | But that , that is a Y equals something X to the tenth , so it 's it 's not going to have a gradient that requires Y equals something to the tenth . |
| 21 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 22 | The almost mystical power of race and nation on the political stage conveys something about the changing nature of class relations , the growth of state authoritarianism , the eclipse of industrial production , the need to maintain popular support for militarism and exterminism and the end of the nation-state as a political form . |