Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that Dement performed experiments after this one in which his subjects showed none of the psychiatric symptoms with REM sleep deprivation , and that he himself made clear how his early observations were probably misleading about the effects of REM sleep deprivation , the idea that dreaming preserved sanity had been strongly reinforced . |
| 3 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 4 | The general appearance of the cars owed something to the American inter-urban , almost the only example of this type in Britain . |
| 5 | As a subject people regarded as inferior to Japanese , Koreans possessed none of the democratic rights enjoyed by Japanese . |
| 6 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 7 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 8 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 9 | Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys . |
| 10 | Redken would recommend a new permanent wave called TRUST which combines both acid and alkaline ingredients to create anything from a soft body wave to springy , resilient curls . |
| 11 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 12 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 13 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 14 | Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ? |
| 15 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 16 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 17 | When two distinctly different vowel sounds occur one after the other and must be pronounced individually , a hyphen should be used where another language might employ an accent , eg co-operation/and not cooperation , thus avoiding the natural wish to pronounce the double o as /u/ or /u : / . |
| 18 | Marasli wanted nothing but a quiet life , and turned a blind eye to Miloš 's encroachments . |
| 19 | If your trust deed gives the grandchildren certain rights and does not allow the trustees to favour one over the other then only the basic rate of 25 p.c. should apply . |
| 20 | I can then approach the overseas groups knowing something of the overall picture . |
| 21 | The Victorians used nothing but the finest timber in their churches and it 's absolutely first class for recycling . |
| 22 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 23 | As might be expected , losses due to accidents took anything from a healthy nibble to a large chunk from the companies ' profits . |
| 24 | For instance , in the South-East region ( as defined in the relevant edition of the Times Guide to the House of Commons ) the Liberals won none of the 40 seats , Labour took only three , whilst the Conservatives — for less than half the total constituency votes — bagged all the rest . |
| 25 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 26 | We must not accept an ‘ equilibrium of stagnation ’ — an inability of government or institutions to deliver anything but an unsatisfactory re-hashing of what already inadequately exists . |
| 27 | The contributions of speaker B cease to be attempts to add anything to the conversational topic . |
| 28 | To say more precisely whether these cuts produced something like the optimal solution to the level of investment ( though with the inconvenience of power cuts at the peak ) , is problematic in an economy which ( even in the 1950s ) was subject to considerable disequilibrium in prices and inherited production patterns . |
| 29 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 30 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |