Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 2 | The sums involved are very small and do not cover anything like the cost to the NHS of car accidents . |
| 3 | Even if they are forced to jump , they can not cover anything like the distances achieved by the colobus . |
| 4 | But do not make one without the advice of a solicitor . |
| 5 | ‘ People should not read too much into every statement , but I now need to know what everybody is thinking , and I will not discuss anything with the media until I have spoken to the necessary people . ’ |
| 6 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 7 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 8 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 9 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 10 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 11 | Referring to the burden which subsidies placed on the state budget , Ben Ali said that " we can no longer do nothing in the face of the growth of the compensation costs , which alone absorb one-quarter of state expenditure " . |
| 12 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 13 | The space must not contribute anything to the reaction or else modern physics is wrong in so many issues ( which it was at the time ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , although we welcome legislation that deals with the serious issues , and although we have promised to consider it carefully in Committee , we can not do anything about the crime figures . |
| 15 | During much of the book you do not feel anything for the androids , but as you see their struggle for survival and begin to sense that they have gained the feelings that humans are losing , you realise the irony of the book . |
| 16 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 17 | Unlike my mother I can not draw anything but the curtains , so I was bottom of the class at this . |
| 18 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 19 | ‘ If there comes a day when I think , ‘ Jesus , I ca n't deal with this any more , it 's too much , ’ I 'll drop it or I 'll just fire everyone in the band . |
| 20 | We can not have one without the other . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’ |
| 22 | But most people do not have a dish , and according to the projections of Continental Research , will not have one by the end of the century . |
| 23 | They still have not moved in properly , and do not have anything like the quantity of clothes , books , porcelain and paintings which took the Thatchers three days to pack up . |
| 24 | I received a letter this morning from the social security office stating that it can not take anything off the income support of one woman who is being pursued for arrears because she is too poor . |
| 25 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 26 | The rules of an artificial formal logic will not guide one in the search for the natures of things . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not imply anything of the sort , ’ the woman said sharply . |
| 28 | As for Dr Hate , poor soul , he can be sorely tried , as when immigrants demand their own schools , parliament , laws and the right to hunt and slay their critics , but he does not hate anyone on the grounds of faith or race . |
| 29 | It should be noted that the relation sign does not indicate anything about the nature of the relationship between two subjects , but merely states that two or more concepts are treated in relation to one another in a document . |
| 30 | If you should stroll into a pub and meet an analyst and a user talking about work , and you can not tell one from the other , they have probably developed a successful system together . |