Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [noun] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As those versed in the Bible will know , the Gospel of Mark begins at the Temptations and contains no mention whatever of the birth of Jesus .
2 It is hard to escape the conclusion that the Department of Transport 's totally incompetent and has no concept whatsoever of the possible implications of its decisions .
3 " It seems to me , Mr Hopkins , that the doctrine of this passage has no foundation whatsoever in the word of God .
4 Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ?
5 ‘ I want to make it clear that the party has no links whatsoever with the British National Party . ’
6 She also has an aunt who as a girl in Oxford knew several famous philosophers .
7 ‘ Unlike most rock bands that will do practically anything to become controversial , ’ drawls the man himself before the show , ‘ our main focus is to keep controversy down .
8 Having been Chief Secretary to the Treasury before becoming Chancellor , and Chancellor before becoming Prime Minister , is the Prime Minister really trying to tell us that he bears no responsibility whatever for the recession ?
9 The differences lie essentially in the speed of information processing , which is much slower , the capacity to store enormous amounts of data , which is reduced , and the cost of ownership , which bears no relationship whatsoever to the cost of owning a larger mini or mainframe computer .
10 For eating purposes Orkney Cheddar is pretty soapy and bears no resemblance whatever to a cheese actually brought from the Orkneys which I once tasted in the house of Edinburgh friends of mine .
11 Switzerland , which at present imposes no restrictions whatsoever on the free circulation of works of art , may soon lose its status as one of the world 's most liberal countries in the field of art trade .
12 In order to defend the legislative principle of integrity , therefore , we must defend the general style of argument that takes the community itself as a moral agent .
13 The first level — the gift relationship — is characterised by an inequality in the relationship such as sponsorship where a firm offers an institution something with no direct or equivalent return .
14 In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved .
15 Ferocity is demonstrated , and the force of it received , through : ( a ) the ritual killing of a mythical , fierce and excellent hunter , ( b ) the ceremonial ( and actual ) rape of women , where a woman from each clan is chosen as object , and ( c ) a ceremonial pantomime of attack which opposes the moieties one to the other : one side in fierce , scowling stamping dance moves against a man of the opposite moiety who must not flinch , even if trampled ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 257 ) .
16 The Parliament Act 1911 still recites that ‘ it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis ’ and explains the Act itself as a temporary measure pending such a substitution .
17 They are not intended to suggest that any given product does no harm whatsoever to the environment .
18 But while the sobriquet of ‘ Canaanite ’ might have meant something some two thousand years before , in Old Testament times , it makes no sense whatever in the context of the New Testament .
19 This is especially so as the local plan makes no reference whatever to the proposal to effectively change from a washed-over to an inset status , while the greenbelt local plan refers to that change only by the one word , quote proposed unquote , in parentheses on page twenty five of the deposit copy .
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