Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 2 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 3 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 4 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 5 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 6 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 7 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 8 | Newcastle had lost just one League game away from home before this and they started with all the confidence of a four-match winning run behind them . |
| 9 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm doing all this because I believe in Labour and I love talking to people on doorsteps , finding out what matters to them . |
| 11 | So they go on like this till they get to late adolescence and then they can have a reasonably normal diet , having said that , they need constant monitoring and they would also be very used to a diet with not very much of milk , egg , fish and cheese etcetera . |
| 12 | ( 7 ) Whenever you come across a mortgage or a charge put " M " prominently in the margin ; tick this as you come to any subsequent statutory receipt or other discharge . |
| 13 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 14 | And then I got another when it come to nineteen eighteen we got bombed out again . |
| 15 | Catfish of several species do so and appear to be calling to one another as they move in murky water . |
| 16 | Erm but I mean there 's nothing in , in that that we get from national level that has anything at all appertaining to Northumberland in it or on it , has it ? |
| 17 | To neither Pound nor Yeats did it seem that Virgil had much or anything to say about this matter which so preoccupied them . |
| 18 | Thome de Gamond realised the importance of preliminary geological investigations and this enthusiasm was such that he dived without any form of equipment to depths of 100 feet to survey the Channel bed . |
| 19 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 20 | Despite the rumour that he could fly , all this really meant for Henry was that he was in the saddle so much that he suffered from sore legs . |
| 21 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 22 | The much vaunted ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle has nothing to do with federalism as such and everything to do with Catholic social theory . |
| 23 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 24 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 25 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 26 | ‘ And so , ’ Mr Malik was saying , ‘ we observe the accumulation of gods , very much as one saw in pre-Islamic Medina . |
| 27 | They broke the basic rule of presentation which applies in politics as much as it does in other fields . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't suppose it matters in the Foreign Office as much as it does in some other spheres . |
| 29 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 30 | Then a division can trade as much as it wants with that market at the market price . |