Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons why there has been nothing outstanding about the rate of growth of trade within the EEC and between the EEC and third countries may have been because its members have not been as assiduous as might have been expected ( by the British at least ) in removing barriers to trade between themselves and with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | If you look back to saturday youll see that there s nothing wrong with the team . |
| 3 | Apparently , there are none available in the University any longer , hard as that is to believe . |
| 4 | The gift will have been one subject to a reservation either because the gift is treated as a class gift to all the discretionary beneficiaries and the donor is one of them ( so he is not entirely excluded from the property ) or , possibly because he has retained a benefit ( there is an ability to benefit him under the terms of the trust deed ) . |
| 5 | The BR spokesman said : It could have been something simple like a gate left open or something sinister like vandalism . ’ |
| 6 | Experts have exploded the old wives ' myth that , if he decided to play away , there must have been something wrong with the relationship in the first place . |
| 7 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 8 | As Mr Singh somewhat harshly pointed out , a pitch for a team in our position could be nothing short of a liability . |
| 9 | ‘ The injury was such that if there was not some disability it will be nothing short of a miracle . |
| 10 | In the absence of an express confidentiality term in the contract of employment , it was said in Printers and Finishers Ltd. v Holloway [ 1965 ] that there would be nothing improper in the employee putting his memory of particular features of his previous employer 's plant at the disposal of his new employer . |
| 11 | I think if you can calf them and then put them onto the floor I think when there are sides that they can feed for themselves more there would be nothing wrong with a floor byre at all really . |
| 12 | Again , it might be argued that there can be nothing wrong for a person voluntarily to allow themselves to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of someone else 's desires . |
| 13 | After all , there would be nothing wrong in a day out for both of them . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean there 'll be someone different in the bed next to me tonight ? ’ ‘ 'Fraid not . |
| 15 | So there seems to be something odd about the cat . |
| 16 | Truly there must be something strange about the seaside , when the mere sight of seeing an ankle had made his heart beat the faster . |
| 17 | This learned advertisement suggests that , just like in the Bertillon system , when you get a lot of small pieces of evidence grouped together , it can add up to be something prodigious in the way of proof . |
| 18 | Techno Tracies and crop-headed sheep on drugs were tainting the atmosphere at raves , and there was beginning to be something familiar in the frenzy of old favourites such as Kaos and Ark . |
| 19 | A crime novel need not ask that question " Who done it ? " and yet , because its writer has kept in mind the primary duty of entertaining , it will still be something different from the novel that has a crime in it . |
| 20 | Computer equipment may be designed in such a way that it is aesthetically pleasing as well as functional , there may be something novel about the design which falls short of the scope of patents . |
| 21 | ‘ THERE has to be something wrong with a tax system in which a police sergeant falls into the same tax bracket as a multi-millionaire ’ — Tory MP Keith Hampson . |
| 22 | " Mummy died , " his father said again , and there seemed to be something wrong with the way he said it . |
| 23 | Dahl states : " While the empirical approach takes the attitude that if a program does not work in practice there must be something wrong about the theory , the rationalist will retort that what is true in theory must also be true in practice — that it is the practice , not the theory , that is wrong . " |
| 24 | There seemed to be something urgent in the sound . |
| 25 | There does seem to be something objective about the way mankind orders the world . |
| 26 | ‘ There has come to be something shocking in the discovery that a seeming castle is only a cowshed . |
| 27 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 28 | it 's not going to be the trainee manager , it 's not gon na just be the trainee , it 's going to be everybody all of the management team within the branch . |
| 29 | ‘ There 'll be nowt wrong with the arrangement , ’ said Maggie . |
| 30 | is do n't be anything stupid like a shrimp |