Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 2 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 3 | For inexperienced pilots flying in light winds , a good general rule is to allow a maximum of 3 miles ' glide per 1,000 feet with nothing for the last 1,000 feet . |
| 4 | Henry knew nothing about the new papal anathemas of which Anselm was the bearer , and he immediately required him first to renew the homage which he had done to Rufus , and then to consecrate his chancellor William Giffard to the bishopric of Winchester , with which he had invested him on his coronation day . |
| 5 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 6 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 7 | By this time , he believed there were no suitable ‘ mature ’ actresses left , so he looked for someone with the necessary vocal ability . |
| 8 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 9 | Just when they were about to ask Brussels to impose the fruits of their labour as the official standard for European direct-broadcast satellites , someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 10 | We were keenly aware that the local and national authorities , to say nothing of the international archaeological community , would have been horrified by such a spectacle . |
| 11 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 12 | She saw nothing of the pale green clusters of new leaves adorning the elm trees , nor did she see the arum lilies glowing with white purity beneath them . |
| 13 | Whereas Palestrina is almost negligible as a composer of secular music , Lassus was equally at home in the Italian madrigal and the more popular and homophonic villanella ( successor of the frottola ) , the French chanson and German song , to say nothing of the secular Latin motet . |
| 14 | To say nothing of the cut-price Caribbean cruise , the satellite-TV dish and the fully computerised Cosworth car at a cool £25,000 from the newly opened Ford dealers . |
| 15 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 16 | Nobody in the Olympic 400 metres hurdles final could hold a candle to Gunnell 's superb technique , which put her head and shoulders ahead of the field . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 18 | all the traditions , nothing like the good old days |
| 19 | It was small and skinny , with breasts that scarcely shaped the bodice of her dress — nothing like the tall comely women of his tribe . |
| 20 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing like the dear old Smoke , is there ? ’ |
| 22 | One in five had received no training in the Act and most were expecting to receive none during the next six months . |
| 23 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 24 | In the metropolis , its seats were largely dilapidated older boroughs ; it held none of the thriving suburban seats or commuter constituencies . |
| 25 | None of the existing handheld products can deliver multimedia . |
| 26 | None of the five surviving Europeans were in the hunt as Chip Beck suffered an unexpected collapse . |
| 27 | None of the five proposed routes crossed areas regarded as of the highest landscape value . |
| 28 | Mustakimzade alone of the biographers tries to identify the medreses at which Fahreddin Acemi taught , naming two : the Darulhadis of Mehmed Sah Fenari , presumably a ( though none of the standard biographical sources mentions that he made such a benefaction nor is any such medrese or darulhadis mentioned in Baltaci 's and the Darulhadis of Murad II in Edirne . |
| 29 | It should be , however , noted that none of the complex anti-avoidance provisions that protect that boundary have been repealed : others have , in fact , been added since 1988 . |
| 30 | There could be none of the early 1960s sit-downs , it was implicitly recognized , this was no passive Gandhi protest , the state had to be confronted . |