Example sentences of "[is] [indef pn] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is everyone in the Agatean Empire as rich as you ? ’ |
| 2 | There is nothing in the political system that forces them to consider the future . |
| 3 | There is nothing in the autonomous status of self-testimony to call for our adopting the myth of the sense behind the sentence . |
| 4 | As to what counsel said there is a keen dispute which their Lordships can not resolve , beyond observing that there is nothing in the abbreviated note of the arguments in the district court to suggest that counsel went further than to point out that the immediate future of the B.M.F.L. prosecution was highly speculative . |
| 5 | They return in delight but with sadness too , for even the memory fades because there is nothing in the rational mind with which the ideas may be linked and there are no images to fix them in the memory . |
| 6 | There is nothing in the black youth 's experience to compare with that of javelin thrower Paul Brice , a white boy , whose father carefully supervised and monitored his training programmes and competitions at considerable financial expense . |
| 7 | On the other hand there is nothing in the Labour amendment which many of them would oppose anyway . |
| 8 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 9 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 10 | There is nothing in the long run that is more damaging to investment than inflation . |
| 11 | There is nothing in the biblical account to suggest that Mary was extraordinary in any way . |
| 12 | There is nothing in the Old World that resembles the giant ground sloth of South America , alas now extinct . |
| 13 | However one explains the motives behind his actions , things happened because he chose that they should : there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did . |
| 14 | However one explains the motives behind his actions , things happened because he chose that they should : there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did . |
| 15 | There is nothing in the later history of this laconic diarist ( who was my maternal grandmother ) that would suggest that she was other than a normal ‘ teenager ’ of her time . |
| 16 | However , there is nothing in the White Paper to act as a positive incentive for such work , and Age Concern is worried by the proposal in Working Paper 3 that once allocations are made to practices holding their own budgets , they will be free to shift expenditure within the year between the individual components of the budget . |
| 17 | Moreover , there is nothing in the 152-page report to satisfy the Opposition , industry or the few remaining Tory rebels that the Government has come out of the review with a national energy policy . |
| 18 | There is nothing in the British test to exclude such a focus , provided there is also a clear sense of hams which flow from it . |
| 19 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 20 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 21 | One can also add that there is something in the present policies of the SDLP which suggest a need to maintain a somewhat fragile unity in respect of the national question . |
| 22 | There is something in the new package for everybody , and for every aspect of the exam . |
| 23 | There is something in the British character which predisposes us to push to the limit , and beyond , the resources of self-deception to create the illusion that we can enjoy incompatible advantages simultaneously and secure a prize without paying the price for it . |
| 24 | Well , right , erm so a three bars of chocolate , there 's one in the hundred grams , will cost you twenty eight pence . |
| 25 | seventy five per cent way up , now there 's something in the human spirit that actually says I would like to change that , but we really do n't want the children to die in Somalia do we ? |
| 26 | ‘ You mean you thought you 'd like to drive around in your car all afternoon just in case there 's anyone in the entire state who has n't drooled all over it yet — that 's O K , Ryan , that 's cool , I can handle that , I 'm sure you and your Porsche will be very happy and I would n't dream of fucking up your beautiful relationship . ’ |
| 27 | No , if there 's anything in the golf-club theory , it 's more likely the victim was merely stunned . ’ |