Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 2 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 3 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 4 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 5 | Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take . |
| 6 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 7 | There were points of Government policy where I disagreed with the official line . |
| 8 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 9 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 10 | And there was a shadow , something or somebody moving against the eastern window . |
| 11 | Where somebody goes to a public meeting and does n't say |
| 12 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 13 | But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action . |
| 14 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 15 | Katherine Jones ( Dr Pelly ) after completing her D.Phil in 1987 worked for about three years at Phillips and Drew , stockbrokers , where she specialised in the financial analysis of publishing companies . |
| 16 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 17 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 18 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 19 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 20 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 21 | Should you decide not to accept the above major changes you may cancel your booking and we refund all monies paid and , where you advised of a major change within eight weeks of departure , issue you with compensation of £10 per person . |
| 22 | Picture an island near Zanzibar ringed by a virginal coral reef where you stay in a thatched hut amongst palm trees on a pristine beach . |
| 23 | This brings up a dialogue box , where you type in the necessary alterations . |
| 24 | And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points . |
| 25 | You either stamp Lucas up his right buttock or you go over the double white lines , or you brake and somebody behind might be too close behind you . |
| 26 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 27 | You can either look at people 's jobs because that 's the bulk of the money goes or you look at the charging policy or you look how the building 's run . |
| 28 | Nor were any examples found of we or you co-occurring with a singular verb , and in a very real sense it is this constraint which distinguishes the Belfast vernacular concord system from that of other non-standard varieties . |
| 29 | There are the actions he or she contributes to the total social process , and there are the accounts in which action is interpreted , criticized and justified . |
| 30 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |