Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 2 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 3 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 4 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 5 | If someone deliberately flouts the law in that manner , they only have themselves to blame for the consequences . |
| 6 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 7 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 8 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 9 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 10 | Nobody ever points the finger at them . ’ |
| 11 | It was formerly found on several other islands in the Seychelles , and while nobody really knows the reason for its decline , serious studies are now being undertaken in order to try and find out . |
| 12 | AUGUSTA may indeed be august , though less snooty than might be imagined , but somebody there has a sense of humour and mischief at least . |
| 13 | Nobody quite has an answer to the question ‘ why Labour for the Nineties ? ’ . |
| 14 | However , one rarely sees a completion of those overs in the allotted time . |
| 15 | ‘ And the one necessarily precludes the other in your estimation , hmm ? ’ |
| 16 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 18 | One thus gets a sequence of periods : 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , … , ∞ . |
| 19 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 20 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 21 | He quoted Van Gogh , " There is a Venus of Arles , just as there is a Venus of Lesbos , and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … " |
| 22 | No one ever reminds a member of Famlio of this coincidence . |
| 23 | Sir , — I suppose , being somewhat cynical , in keeping with , I suspect , many other subscribers to your magazine , one always reviews the report of the Disciplinary Committee ( now , it would appear , known as Professional Conduct Committees ) , if only to see if there is anyone there that one knows ! |
| 24 | You may have noticed this when the fish were quite small , as one always dominates the clump of food at feeding time . |
| 25 | One also gets a selection of more unusual descriptions such as : ‘ stretched square ’ , ‘ an endless shape with corners ’ , ‘ it looks like this … ’ . |
| 26 | But within this regulatory system , one also finds the basis of the idea of public service broadcasting . |
| 27 | Margery Kempe of Lynn was perhaps exceptional in the extent of her travels , but one also remembers the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales : |
| 28 | ‘ Throughout the history of art one repeatedly finds the phenomenon of two brothers being painters . ’ |
| 29 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 30 | Even where there are two signs in use for the same verb , as with he bade and he bidded , one immediately recognizes a unity of meaning ( " past " ) . |