Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 2 | Schellenberg said cautiously , ‘ So the Führer knows nothing of the affair ? ’ |
| 3 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 4 | An appeal against a committal order based upon a failure to serve the committal order on the contemnor presents somewhat of a paradox . |
| 5 | ‘ If the agent says something about a house it must be verified . |
| 6 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 7 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 8 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 9 | There is a rebuttable presumption that the highway includes everything between the fence or boundary wall etc. , e.g. grass verges , footpaths and central reservations . |
| 10 | Designed with the shell of the old smiddy and adjoining cottages , the inn retains something of the original atmosphere . |
| 11 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 12 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 13 | The reason is to be able with ease to identify the sender of the letter , who typed it , and the file number if the organisation has one for a particular account . |
| 14 | the order of the objectives reveals something of the process of historical writing . |
| 15 | Given Ungermann 's fighting talk about Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop , the Dragonswitch seems something of an anti-climax , despite the company 's claims that , combined with Virtual Network Architecture it ‘ provides many of the benefits of Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology on today 's Ethernet networks ’ . |
| 16 | The man does something in the car again . |
| 17 | At his first approach to man-machine conversation , the system analyst often tends to think of the man as originating each part : the man says something to the computer and the computer replies . |
| 18 | The Emperor has something of the technique of comic and fantastic exaggeration that we associate with Dickens , and something of the manner , too , of Dickens 's reader , Kafka : |
| 19 | The nation obtains something like a quarter of tin from four mines in Cornwall , historically an important tin producing area . |
| 20 | Thus the illustration contributes nothing to the text , which runs ‘ Edward [ actually Edgar ! ] lightly sprung aside and avoided the cut aimed at him , and then delivered a blow with all his force just in front of the ear , and the man dropped again as if shot . ’ |
| 21 | Since Parliament has not conferred complete autonomy on a 16-year-old in the field of medical treatment , there is no overriding limitation to preclude the exercise by the court of its inherent jurisdiction and the matter becomes one for the exercise by the court of its discretion . |
| 22 | ( The teaching of the Catechism has something of the air of a lost cause about it . |
| 23 | In approving costs the Profitboss sees nothing but a profitable investment opportunity . |
| 24 | ‘ There are many people in computer graphics in the US who do n't believe that anyone outside the country knows anything about the subject at all . ’ |
| 25 | The grid states nothing about the degree to which investment is necessary to retain star position or sufficient to build competitive advantage . |
| 26 | The transparency of technique and the ubiquity of the reproductions turns everyone into an expert , hence a potential participant . |
| 27 | Go first to the albeit small exhibition : in Prince Charles the backlash against modernism has an impassioned protagonist and the display leaves one in no doubt about his views . |
| 28 | The biographer says nothing of a king 's other chief relaxation , the evening carouse . |
| 29 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |