Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 10 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then you see that waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue which operations researchers are so fond of modelling . |
| 16 | ‘ Waiting lists seldom resemble anything like the formal queue ’ . |
| 17 | The question is , does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ? |
| 18 | Bring everything to the small salon as soon as you have it ready . |
| 19 | Participants are invited to bring kites or make one in the on-site kite workshop . |
| 20 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 21 | Probably get one for the little room , probably get er |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |
| 26 | None of this implies of course that babies know anything about the external world at all . |
| 27 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 28 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 30 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |