Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | But do not make one without the advice of a solicitor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | These relationships are purely technological , and do not assume anything about the degree of competition . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | We can not have one without the other . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll not have one in the house , ’ she had said , ‘ we 've a larder have n't we ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The rules of an artificial formal logic will not guide one in the search for the natures of things . |
| 22 | ‘ I did not imply anything of the sort , ’ the woman said sharply . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maggie knew , even as she heard it , that Phoebe did not mean anything of the sort ; it was the kind of thing that Rachel dragged you into saying . |
| 26 | A true dye or stain does not leave anything on the surface that will obscure the grain , unlike a paint which is made by grinding pigments into a binding medium and , because they are opaque , will leave the wood a uniform colour . |
| 27 | I will wear his clothes , I will not change anything in the house . ’ |
| 28 | Because I can not distinguish one from the other it must be a physically identical statement to say that I have a particle " there " and an identical particle " here " . |
| 29 | She walked alone in the silence , hearing her own muted footfalls like echoes of past or future , she could not distinguish one from the other . |
| 30 | It seems , then , that sentences which are not declarative can not express anything in the sense in which factual statements do . |