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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 4 | By this time , he believed there were no suitable ‘ mature ’ actresses left , so he looked for someone with the necessary vocal ability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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someone at the French foreign ministry leaked a report which argues that their technology , called D2 MAC , is already out of date . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There are stars galore in the operatic firmament , with , alongside to say nothing of the many famous names featured in the historical anthologies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | all the traditions , nothing like the good old days |
| 13 | It was small and skinny , with breasts that scarcely shaped the bodice of her dress — nothing like the tall comely women of his tribe . |
| 14 | In other words , a classical " solar system " atom under electromagnetic forces is nothing like the actual solar system held together by gravitational forces . |
| 15 | ‘ Nothing like the dear old Smoke , is there ? ’ |
| 16 | In the metropolis , its seats were largely dilapidated older boroughs ; it held none of the thriving suburban seats or commuter constituencies . |
| 17 | None of the existing handheld products can deliver multimedia . |
| 18 | None of the five surviving Europeans were in the hunt as Chip Beck suffered an unexpected collapse . |
| 19 | None of the five proposed routes crossed areas regarded as of the highest landscape value . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The elegant studies undertaken by Bissell et al showed that none of the individual major matrix proteins used as a culture substratum would maintain hepatocyte function as effectively as the complete EHS gel complex . |
| 23 | None of the feared Mediterranean gales had sprung up . |
| 24 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 25 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 26 | Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either . |
| 27 | For comparison none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted for HIV , three out of 177 ( 2% ) drug users negative for HIV , and 10 out of 112 ( 9% ) drug users positive for HIV reported bacterial pneumonia . |
| 28 | In contrast none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted ( p=0.007 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) and only three of the 177 ( 2% ) of the drug users negative for HIV ( p=0.0002 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) reported pneumonia in the preceding period . |
| 29 | None of the 11 new ministers named had previously served in the cabinet . |
| 30 | In other words , none of the recognized legal excuses will permit the individual to avoid the contract . |