Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the evidence suggests that no-one has properly quantified the cost of educating end users in all the user-hostile features of a dumb 3270 attached to a mainframe application , let alone any of the other hidden costs of the mainframe . |
| 2 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 3 | It also turns out that the ratio of proportions is rather cumbersome to handle when dealing with many variables at once , and no-one has yet proposed a way of decomposing it into component effects as they have with d s and with measures based on odds . |
| 4 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 5 | ‘ I will show you the only book no-one has ever read a word of . ’ |
| 6 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 7 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 8 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 9 | Glashow , for example , was reported to say that the Nobel committee took a ‘ bit of a chance ’ because ‘ nobody has yet built a machine that is capable to check ’ the new particles predicted ( international Herald Tribune , 16 October , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Nobody has yet invented the mathematics for describing the total structure and behaviour of such an object as a physicist , or even of one of his cells . |
| 11 | Admittedly , nobody has actually studied the genetics of caddis houses . |
| 12 | Nobody has ever taken the trouble to build a cairn on the bare top but the Ordnance surveyors have erected a triangulation column to mark the highest point at 2058 feet . |
| 13 | Nobody has ever put the boot into literature like Richard Allen . |
| 14 | For example , if no one has yet discovered the principle of the lens , it is difficult to invent the telescope ; if you want to erect an astronomical observatory , therefore , you have to do your best with the current technology — in other words , build Stonehenge or some similar megalithic monument . |
| 15 | Unfortunately no one has yet written The Gro-Bag Gardener , but perhaps that theme is too down-market . |
| 16 | To my knowledge , no one has yet addressed the relationship between topic and theme in topic-prominent languages . |
| 17 | No one has yet hijacked a Trislander , but theoretically it could happen . |
| 18 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 19 | Dear L.B : When one has finally done the job and found the mot juste , I dare say violent language usually disappears . |
| 20 | We know who his father was , my second cousin , Gervaise Harvey , but no one has ever revealed the name of Harry 's mother . |
| 21 | No one has ever worn an England sweater longer . |
| 22 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |
| 23 | In all my years in the Civil Service no one has ever brought a camera into the office and started taking snapshots ! |
| 24 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 25 | A threshold can hold numbers down : Germany 's fierce 5% one has usually kept the Bundestag to just four parties , rarely five . |
| 26 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 27 | Again , no one has seriously questioned the need for further legislation to protect union members against the sort of financial mismanagement which was revealed in the Lightman report into the affairs of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 28 | However , no one has seriously challenged the view that attempted suicide should be regarded as an inappropriate way of coping with problems . |
| 29 | To assist on the income tax residence point ( " residence " for these purposes means residence for income tax purposes ) one has always disregarded the dwelling house available in the United Kingdom ( IHTA 1984 , s267(4) ( now amended ) ) . |
| 30 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |