Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 3 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 4 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 5 | For a start , they 're a doddle to attach — plug one into the parallel port , connect the cable , find a 13A socket ( the Pocket Ethernet Adaptor needs a mains converter ) , load the drivers provided on the accompanying disk , and that 's it . |
| 6 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 7 | The Americans came to London and invested large amounts of money in local film production , but put nothing into the creative infrastructure . |
| 8 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 11 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 12 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 13 | Also Bach 's Magnificat is clearly the work of a genius at white-heat , whilst Kuhnau 's score(s) , if lacking nothing in sheer inspiration , exhibit nothing like the extraordinary level of Bach 's individuality and imagination . |
| 14 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 15 | More fashionably , this may be expressed in terms of " capital points " which may facilitate mental calculation of the agreed ratio at any given time but otherwise add nothing to the traditional method . |
| 16 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 17 | They are perhaps owe something to the tabloid newspapers and colour supplements , as these have emerged in the post-war years , with their high illustrative content and minimal text . |
| 18 | Then you see that waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue which operations researchers are so fond of modelling . |
| 19 | ‘ Waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue ’ . |
| 20 | The question is , does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ? |
| 21 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
| 22 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 23 | Participants are invited to bring kites or make one in the on-site kite workshop . |
| 24 | ‘ Just get everyone into the old sheds . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Probably get one for the little room , probably get er |
| 28 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 29 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |
| 30 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |