Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That at least was something to congratulate himself on , but there had been nothing else in the encounter to afford the Colonel any consolation . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , Luke , a radio station is only a radio station , and there are plenty all around the world , but there 's only one Luke Scott . ’ |
| 3 | There seems to be nobody else on the plane . |
| 4 | Erm , as I said it was n't me that phoned originally , my guess is that there may be somebody else at the school who is trying to contact you , but while you 're on the line , let's just make a little let's just make a little date . |
| 5 | But that 's probably not gon na happen along there there wo n't be anything else on the windowsill . |
| 6 | There is a tendency for people to approach this matter as though it were one entirely for the shipyard concerned . |
| 7 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 8 | Soft and sophisticated , there 's nothing quite like the look of crisp , cool white . |
| 9 | x on it , ‘ there is nothing intrinsically in the hardware that requires Solaris 2.1 . ’ |
| 10 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 11 | This and many other means to exhilarate the heart of man have been practised in all ages , as knowing there is nothing better to the preservation of man 's life . |
| 12 | Oh , but there is nothing quite like a hansom cab — as it shakes from side to side , throwing us against each other , deliciously … |
| 13 | Joe Jordan , a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , says women should not allow doctors to carry out such examinations unless there is someone else in the room or close by — normally a nurse , relative or friend . |
| 14 | And there 's nobody else in the picture so we 're totally concentrating on him . |
| 15 | I think there 's somebody else at the door now . |
| 16 | There 's plenty wrong with the world right now , but it 's all we 've got , and the only way forward is to face up to it . |
| 17 | ‘ Is somebody else in the house ? ’ |
| 18 | Second , there is something right about an argument which holds , as does the argument from error , that for the very same sort of reason that you do n't know you are not a brain in a vat , you do n't know , e.g. , that The Times will be published tomorrow , nor whether you are sitting reading . |
| 19 | I could find no memorial at all for 1939–45 , though there is one elsewhere in the town . |
| 20 | Sprays produced by taps and showers also produce fine aerosols and here the person at risk is one close to the source of aerosol production . |
| 21 | There 's one actually at the bus stop by the Police Station and there 's another one on the corner of the erm just before you turn into Terrace there 's there 's a free standing one outside the shop there . |
| 22 | I think there 's one still in the fridge actually . |
| 23 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 24 | Oh my God , there 's something else in the room . |
| 25 | It 's something there in a magazine the other week there . |
| 26 | ‘ Beauty palls after a while — unless , of course , there 's something deeper beneath the surface to hold the interest , ’ observed Lucenzo laconically . |
| 27 | Oh , I know we 've no certificates , but we 're both quite good — you really dance jolly well , and it is n't likely that there 's anyone else at the game . |
| 28 | Before going outside your organization look around to see whether there is anyone already on the payroll who could do the job . |
| 29 | She was informed , as was everyone else in the council statement , that Mr Clayton would have had no access to the sort of information quoted in the paper . |
| 30 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |