Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 2 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 3 | This Hall was unusual in being modelled on an Oxbridge college ; we had formal dinner 4 nights a week , where everyone including the 120 students had to wear gowns . |
| 4 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 5 | Or somebody in the next place or the next place , we reckon we know where it is |
| 6 | The tenant may be wary of this in case it is used by the landlord to remove the tenant ( in a buoyant market ) but any dilatoriness on the part of the landlord in reinstating where none of the supervening events applies could be seized upon by the tenant . |
| 7 | Indeed , there is now little or none of the traditional progression or interweaving of rock climbing and other mountain activities . |
| 8 | Finally , if the fish shows signs of distress , is not feeding , or none of the above treatments shown any signs of working , the kindest thing is to painlessly destroy it . |
| 9 | Oxidised LDL may also be procoagulant since it has been described as stimulating endothelial tissue factor activity and inhibiting activation of protein C. Despite these tremendous advances , the authors wisely remind us that many patients with coronary disease have few or none of the known risk factors . |
| 10 | Does subsidiarity mean that the Member States should be permitted to decide whether that decision is an individual matter or one for the national state to take on the basis of its view of where the best interests of |
| 11 | And so you get these , these somewhat stupefied er or one over the eight wasps rolling around , er and er you know , not , not being terribly active , but that , that is the time at which of course people do tend to tread on them or pick them up and get stung . |
| 12 | She may have had problems over a similar product , or one from the same manufacturer , before . |
| 13 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 14 | We might plan an outing or something with the whole staff — each one will say where they want to go and how to make it work . ’ |
| 15 | thirty six quid for this thirty six eighty four or something for the local paper . |
| 16 | er , I 'll do , you know the afternoon or a morning or something in the middle school |
| 17 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
| 18 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 19 | The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given . |
| 20 | It did not do so , but — with minimal discussion of the implications — it enacted ( in s.6(c) ) that nothing in the foregoing sections restricted liability for contempt of court ‘ in respect of conduct intended to impede or prejudice the administration of justice . ’ |
| 21 | This is subject to an overriding provision that nothing in the relevant Rule or in any order or direction of the court made by virtue of it authorises or requires the doing of anything in a country in which service is to be effected which is contrary to the law of that country . |
| 22 | It is right now to insist that nothing in the Anglo-French study shows AZT to be ineffective in the late treatment of AIDS ; it is to be hoped that point will be tested by a new controlled study . |
| 23 | Social learning theory can be applied in many cases but is too extensive when it says that nothing in the human being is innate and that everything must be learnt . |
| 24 | Like an old bull that everyone in the post-industrial world thought was long dead , Spain 's new working class is snorting , stamping the ground and ready to fight . |
| 25 | It is important that someone from the senior management team should exercise day-to-day oversight and responsibility for Compact activities . |
| 26 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |
| 27 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 28 | That uncomfortable conscience demands that somebody from the very top be indicted for the system as a whole . |
| 29 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 30 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority is well served by community hospitals , where outpatient clinics are held in addition to those in general hospitals , so none of the participating practices was far from a provider unit . |