Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No-one belongs to the physical elite for long .
2 No-one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury on an opponent .
3 Nothing turns on the statutory definition of those words : it is sufficient to note that from 1988 onwards , governors have been bound to admit a minimum specified number of applicants .
4 Nothing turns on the precise figures .
5 Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do .
6 The project outline claims that no-one lives in the inner zones , although this is disputed by local non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , which insist that tribal people currently use all of the forest .
7 Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other .
8 Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm .
9 I told her : ‘ This is almost my favourite kind [ of book ] — when someone goes to a decaying country house , and finds a lot of odd people in it .
10 If someone punches in the wrong code more than three times , the alarm sounds automatically .
11 The first of these assumes a direct link between what happens before someone behaves in a certain way and their subsequent actions :
12 Where somebody goes to a public meeting and does n't say
13 We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy .
14 It is important , but less important than keeping the boundaries , that 's only my view , and he along with Malcolm here , suggests that either myself or the Council or the Chairman of Council , somebody writes to the appropriate Secretary of State , to bring these matters to their attention .
15 ‘ Space does not care , ’ somebody intones on a live recording of ‘ The Black Corridor ’ against a backdrop of bloopy electronic noises .
16 for next year cos if somebody asks for a specific training
17 Rather like a bank 's cash-dispensing machine , the launch-control computer will keep the missiles ' warheads switched off if somebody types in the wrong combination .
18 This is the time everyone gathers for a special dinner , which is based on fish , and in keeping with Italian tradition eel is cooked and served in many homes .
19 Bedding stocks , for instance , are noted for their fragrance , but none compares with the night-scented stock ( Matthiola bicornis ) .
20 Just as the young Federman arrives in America and will embark on a new series of experiences , so Double Or Nothing speculates about the possible shapes it might take .
21 Just be prepared for Connemara enthusiasts to tell you that theirs is the only breed worth bothering about , Welsh Cob experts too insist that nothing compares with a good Section D and Highland/Fell/Dales etc exhibitors feel exactly the same !
22 Nevertheless , there is nothing comparable on the university side , unless one refers to the general aims of higher education enunciated by Robbins ( 1963 ) and endorsed by the recent White Paper ( DES 1987 , para. 1.2 ) : ‘ instruction in skills , the promotion of the general powers of the mind , the advancement of learning , and the transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ .
23 Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse .
24 However , when one turns to the year-by-year figures in Table 2 , the picture , even for that period , becomes more variable .
25 If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent .
26 When the Opéra revived Gluck 's Armide on 31 December 1799 , the composer C.H. Plantade ‘ read and reread ’ the score in preparation one thinks of the young Berlioz .
27 One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit .
28 With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe .
29 One thinks of the familiar nostalgia for ‘ roots ’ which makes the children of assimilated , secularised and anglicised Jews rediscover comfort in the ancestral rituals , and sentimentalise the memories of the shtetl , which they have never known .
30 Though one thinks of The Bartered Bride ( among other things ) as a cataract of marvellous vocal melody , it is rarely well performed in Britain , mainly because of our lack of really deep-chested lyric tenors of the type that can making singing Czechs such enthralling neighbours .
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