Example sentences of "[coord] [indef pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 3 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 4 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 5 | You have to give the doorman a ten pound note or something to get a nice place you know |
| 6 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 7 | ‘ It is a mixed community and everyone takes a great pride in the village . |
| 8 | The top five men and women will win vouchers , the top 100 finishers a T-shirt and everyone receives a commemorative mug and certificate . |
| 9 | When we arrived I was introduced to the medium , Helen , a quite ordinary , sandy-haired woman in her mid-thirties , and the rest of the group , Dora and Leo and Katy and Humphrey , and everyone made a great fuss of me . |
| 10 | But , internally , you need to make sure that your auditors and your , and everyone understands the same thing . |
| 11 | In March Elsie Streek and class members took tambours and bean bags along to the Woolwich Branch of the Salvation Army , and everyone had an enjoyable afternoon of Medau . |
| 12 | They get top coaching and everyone has a great time . ’ |
| 13 | The system was carefully designed for confidentiality , and everyone has a separate ID for the survey . |
| 14 | And everyone heaves a massive sigh of relief . |
| 15 | Changes in media personnel are fairly frequent and nothing gives a worse impression of the PR executive the continual receipt of material with a predecessor 's name or even their predecessor 's predecessor 's name on it . |
| 16 | Then he edged a ball into his pad and someone made a stifled appeal . |
| 17 | I 've been to Stanford Hall where they have you in a circle but at least , I think , wh however you sit , you must have a president in front of you in a chair and someone to keep a little bit of order . |
| 18 | reservoir , and someone puts a little pipe on as well . |
| 19 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 20 | ‘ We have strength in depth and nobody has a God-given right to any position . ’ |
| 21 | He was a redundant executive and nobody rang a redundant executive , except to say ‘ Goodbye ’ . |
| 22 | He had consigned abstract paintings by Clyfford Still ( lot 30A ) , Franz Kline ( lot 31A ) and Morris Louis ( lot 37A ) and none attracted a single bid . |
| 23 | I counted at least 15 snippets of tunes in the half-hour slot and none resembled a conventional song , just a patchwork quilt of ideas . |
| 24 | Did authority reside in the parents , with their popular language of purity ( and one suspects a commonsense discourse about the naturalness and inevitability of procreation and parenthood ) , or with the power of professionals ? |
| 25 | Three women hit by the runaway car were cut and bruised — and one suffered a broken leg . |
| 26 | In that case the two waves reinforce each other and one gets a large effect , a hump in the pattern . |
| 27 | Overall , out of 16 patients in the cyclosporin group , 15 had a remission/mild disease course and one had a moderate disease course during treatment ( Table II ) . |
| 28 | Of these two had gastric carcinomas , one had coeliac disease , one had pernicious anaemia ( defined by B 1 2 absorption studies and antibody tests ) , and one had a gastric ulcer . |
| 29 | In the last of these particularly , the peristyle has now been restored , as has the garden , and one gains a vivid impression of the original appearance ( 144 ) . |
| 30 | Younger sons went into the British Army , and one became a distinguished admiral in the Royal Navy . |