Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Secretary of State aware that his scandalous decision will be greeted by outrage not only in Aberdeen and the surrounding area by everyone connected with the medical and caring professions but by everyone right across the political spectrum in the north-east of Scotland , including the hapless Marcus Humphrey ? |
| 2 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 3 | ‘ How nice to have someone here from the Foreign Office . |
| 4 | ‘ The businessman does n't want to go to different people to talk about things on the marketing front and someone else on the financial front . ’ |
| 5 | Also Parker is a better defender than Jones , if England do have someone else on the right hand side to get forward . |
| 6 | It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is . |
| 7 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 8 | I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself . |
| 9 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
| 10 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 11 | Nobody yet in the whole history of mankind has had the strength to resist doing what lies in their power to do , just to prove that they can . |
| 12 | Except for the stateless Palestinians , nobody else in the Middle East stands to gain more from peace . |
| 13 | And then you 'd share it with somebody else on the same row . |
| 14 | Adam sat at his usual lunchtime table in the Savoy Grill the one discreetly opposite the main entrance , so that without seeming to do so , he saw everyone who entered the restaurant . |
| 15 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 16 | I did everything right in the first set . |
| 17 | Music for the eyes Mere sketches can be monumental , Edward Gage discovers at a National Gallery show of Old Master drawings Drawings bring one intimately into the creative presence of a master |
| 18 | Chamber music of the visual arts , drawings bring one intimately into the creative presence of a master , for they are generally a means to an end : a means of discovery concerning individual forms or formal composition . |
| 19 | They bulged out , connected hard with something outside in the common room . |
| 20 | As Dr Stevenson has put it : " English crowds appear to have killed no one deliberately in the various food disturbances which occurred from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth . " |
| 21 | The trouble by this stage , however , is that an adequate account of the effects of admonishments , threats and exhortations would enmesh one further in the semantic question posed by the original problem . |
| 22 | Any explanation requires description , and it is difficult , or perhaps impossible , to describe something without at the same time explaining it . |
| 23 | One is to a large extent the consequence of something deep in the Greek character . |
| 24 | We have yet to learn that form counts for something even in the holiest adoration of the heart . ’ |
| 25 | Sensuous of sound , immaculately directed , the playing somehow never quite manages to transport one fully to the idyllic world of nymphs and shepherds . |
| 26 | City had a few chances , and unfortunately they took one late in the second half , shortly after we 'd started shouting ‘ What 's like to be outclassed ’ at the boys in blue . |
| 27 | We need something else besides the scalar potential for describing correctly a time-varying electric field . |
| 28 | For example , an adult can dress herself or eat a meal and chat about something else at the same time , because these routines have become automatic habits . |
| 29 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |
| 30 | He left the car again , and saw something else on the other side of it — a pair of legs jutting out from the bushes nearby . |