Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 3 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 4 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 5 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 6 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 7 | ‘ Everything you want to do someone has just done or someone has the rights . |
| 8 | It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place . |
| 9 | Some boy or somebody cut the phone , you saw that at the beginning . |
| 10 | I could always get Fenella or somebody to answer the phone and I was n't in the phone book , so I figured that if I chickened out , I could block her . |
| 11 | Hey we 're going out and be , we we 're going to have them build us one , I mean er my intention is I might get Stuart or somebody to put the bricks at the bottom . |
| 12 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 13 | Sally was the one , or somebody wanted the other programme I put the tape in and recorded |
| 14 | and you run the car , or somebody runs the car the other way |
| 15 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 16 | You ought to Rainbows or something got the car at least then |
| 17 | And and er say send something to William George , or something involving the magistrates cos he was chairman of the of the er of the er |
| 18 | A lid or something to keep the muck and . |
| 19 | She could remember someone or something smashing the back of her head , and then taking the high dive into ice-cream country . |
| 20 | A UV steriliser is not the answer : what you need is either a chemical remedy , or something to reduce the nitrate level in your water , since this algae relies on light and nutrients ( nitrate ) to flourish . |
| 21 | Where one spins the tunes , the other continues the melodic line to give cogency and consistency to the whole . |
| 22 | I find it tragic when I hear of a couple where one knows the other is dying , but neither can bear to talk about it . |
| 23 | The conclusion seems to be that where one wishes the UCTA not to apply , one should , where possible , by observing the relevant conflict of law rules , create a contract genuinely governed by a foreign proper law , so that there is no need for an express choice of law clause which can be attacked or negated under s 27(2) . |
| 24 | If [ it ] … does not have the power to raise you up … to that mood where one sees the earthly veils pull away from oneself — then I too want to have nothing more to do with this philosophy . " |
| 25 | Or anything to avoid the potentially offensive gesture of actually leaving ! |
| 26 | Perhaps I should have asked them if they were intending to introduce creche facilities or anything to help the working mum ? |
| 27 | Remarkably , compounds which showed particular promise as drugs became routinely discussed by number alone , although everyone knew the chemistry behind them . |
| 28 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 29 | Although everyone has the innate capacity to love and to enjoy another 's happiness as well as their own , and to get themselves loved and their happiness enjoyed by others , not everyone can risk the experience in adult life . |
| 30 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |