Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main source of information was meter reading , which , of course , told them nothing about what purposes domestic electricity was used for , and , more importantly for their costs , about what times of day it was used . |
| 2 | For example , an increase in the economy 's total output tells us nothing about who receives that output . |
| 3 | I for one think that sort of thing , to people searching for something , makes a lot of impact . |
| 4 | The production of new paper from raw wood pulp consumes vast amounts of energy , the production of which in itself causes environmental pollution and adds to the Greenhouse Effect . |
| 5 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
| 6 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 7 | You know damn well I 've never blamed you for what happened that night ; it was one of those risks we had to take . |
| 8 | Told you about her having that dish and it went funny . |
| 9 | He dodged between the startled shoppers , none of whom made any attempt to stop him . |
| 10 | Her embarrassment continued when she was introduced to a procession of Korean shop workers , none of whom spoke any English . |
| 11 | Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) ( see also Baker and Mercier 1982a ) report the results of an extensive and thorough series of experiments ( using the conditioned suppression procedure and a clicker and a light as the stimuli ) , none of which yielded any indication that the S1-S2 procedure diminished the magnitude of latent inhibition . |
| 12 | But times change and the only locally based fishing-boats now fish for scallops , crabs and lobsters , none of which produce any offal or discards . |
| 13 | ‘ None of which has any relevance to you , ’ said the woman , ‘ but it 's nice and polite of you to listen . ’ |
| 14 | The four cardinal metaphors are the four foundations of physical science ( space , time , matter and number ) ; none of which has any objective , external status , rather they are ‘ creations of the mind ’ . |
| 15 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 16 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 17 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 18 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 19 | They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent . |
| 20 | Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her . |
| 21 | Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes . |
| 22 | None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen . |
| 23 | But none of them does full justice to the purpose of Scripture as set out by the Bible writers themselves , or to the cumulative experience of Bible users through the centuries . |
| 24 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 25 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 26 | The men in the Toms family support each other a great deal ; none of them show any disapproval of Sandy 's lifestyle . |
| 27 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 28 | British law comprises thousands of separate statutes and decided cases : none of them give unqualified support to freedom of expression . |
| 29 | Three rivers rise in these uplands , the Nene , Welland and Avon , but none of them carries much water before they drain eastward and westward off the plateau , and the total water supply available for canal development in the area was never adequate . |
| 30 | None of them commands much loyalty amongst the other provinces and each effectively rules an independent state . |