Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 2 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 3 | He sees the cost of effective management training as nothing against the true cost of incompetent management . |
| 4 | It finds a place for everyone within the divine purpose , regardless of their background , status or gender . |
| 5 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 6 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 7 | ‘ The concentration of expertise and interest ( in the committees ) mean that it is both rare and difficult for someone outside the relevant committee or committees to counter a report ’ . |
| 8 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 9 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 10 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 11 | Could you write an article for somebody in the top year of your last school , about English A Level , and what they should be able to , what they should expect ? |
| 12 | I thought of nothing except the great happiness of being with him for ever . |
| 13 | Second , the court held that marriage as an institution is , by definition , the association of someone of the male sex with someone of the female sex , gender having no relevance . |
| 14 | More of them were the sons or grandsons of someone in the Christian ministry . |
| 15 | Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase . |
| 16 | Divide the party players into pairs of roughly equal sizes and tie the right leg of one to the left leg of the other . |
| 17 | The Murcia ruling gave the PSOE 176 seats , a majority of one in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies . |
| 18 | The two friends took stock of everything in the immediate vicinity . |
| 19 | The exhibition presented in stark contrast a series of ideological pronouncements on the wonders of life in the ‘ people 's democracy ’ , together with images and reconstructions of the realities : ‘ fake elections , the forced exploitation of workers in the form of ‘ work competitions ' ’ , the ruining of peasants , the servile imitation of Soviet methods , the ridiculous praises given to domestic and Soviet conditions , the unscrupulous abuse of everything in the capitalist system , the unlawfulness which had been part of the system from the very beginning , persecutions , the drabness of life , of the immediate surrounding , of the work-place , of the living quarters , of the clothing , the false and forced propaganda inundating everything … |
| 20 | Cut-ins , in which a close-up detail of something within the main shot is used , are similar to cutaways and serve much the same purpose . |
| 21 | For a moment there was a flash of something in the dark eye . |
| 22 | Oh you have a bag of something in the sweet box in the cupboard in the kitchen which you must take and put on your desk . |
| 23 | Each clique treated the establishment as its club and took no notice at all of anyone outside the charmed circle . |
| 24 | I reject absolutely any charges of racism on the part of anyone in the Tory party in the Langbaurgh campaign . |
| 25 | His anxieties were not unassisted by George Wigg , who became more and more valuable to Wilson , principally as a source of information — largely , alas , misinformation — about the behaviour of anyone in the parliamentary party . |
| 26 | Sounds like one for the Natural History Unit . |
| 27 | ‘ How about one for the happy couple ? ’ she suggested . |
| 28 | If you find that after a day or so you have aches and pains that wo n't go away , shower again , using hot water for three minutes and cold for one on the affected area . |
| 29 | I was advised that before studying psionic medicine it would be appropriate to learn homoeopathy and this I duly did , leaving my post in the genetics department for one in the homoeopathic hospital . |
| 30 | It is thought that for a house in the high-rate stratum the assets are about four times as great as for one in the low-rate stratum , and that the stratum standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the stratum mean . |