Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
| 2 | The shoes can now be taken off in either order , or we can see that the order of putting them on makes no difference , that is , RL = LR , or R and L commute . |
| 3 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 4 | To yank me clear takes the sudden , strong spine |
| 5 | That is a measure not merely of misfortune and waste , but of positive neglect ; and nothing so symbolises the Tories ' failure as their abandonment of any pretence to commitment towards the unemployed . |
| 6 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 7 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 8 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 9 | It had me in stitches a lot of the time and definitely was n't just for the kids . ’ |
| 10 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 11 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 12 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 13 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 14 | Someone somewhere wants a |
| 15 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 16 | I just wants the organ |
| 17 | If someone deliberately flouts the law in that manner , they only have themselves to blame for the consequences . |
| 18 | This room is fairly clean — as if someone still keeps the place tidy . |
| 19 | I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’ |
| 20 | M· Alu I also contains the largest known variable |
| 21 | I particularly likes the rounds for their versatility . |
| 22 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 23 | And the ex-Minister learned that when someone else foots the bill there is always a price to pay in the end . |
| 24 | Seamus should be told to put those right before someone else does the same thing . ’ |
| 25 | I really prefer it if someone else does the cutting , because even though I 've worked in newspapers for so long , it 's terribly hard to know how to cut your own stuff . |
| 26 | But Great Malvern was worth visiting , if only for the best one-liner of the conference , from Joan Beck , chief inspector of Doncaster SSD : ‘ Equal opportunities is all very well until someone else gets the job you wanted . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm glad someone else thinks the same way ’ . |
| 28 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 29 | Someone has told me that a new carb would help , someone else reckons the distributor would be best changed . |
| 30 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |