Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh dear , I hope they 're none the worse ? ’
2 " I know : steak four times a day topped with butter and tons of eggs and cheese and stuff and you 're none the worse for it . "
3 ‘ We 're none the wiser . ’
4 Despite the saints involved , both customs derive from Celtic paganism , and are none the worse for that .
5 And , people are none the wiser they , if they can see it
6 ‘ Regrettably , I am none the wiser . ’
7 Over the erm four years th the last four years , er on aggregate , the income from the erm erm the draw has been one a hundred and thirty thousand pounds , er of which ninety five thousand pounds has benefited the Party , and most of that is at constituency level
8 ‘ I 'm none the wiser , unless his work was something to do with the Hell Fire Club .
9 Nevertheless it is an utterance of the Amis who has made himself known on other occasions , and it can be none the worse for being read by those who are able and disposed to pay intelligent attention to this range of information — which is not to imply that the information may not be disastrously misunderstood .
10 Suffice to say that library promotion would be none the worse for closer involvement with the application of marketing and public relations principles , strategies and practice .
11 He/she is still in her pond , still being caught and seems to be none the worse for it all .
12 A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal .
13 However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser !
14 ‘ And still be none the wiser , ’ Googol said airily .
15 ‘ Furthermore , you 'll be none the wiser about Kelly .
16 To do something as cruel as this to a member of your own family can not be something a fair and just woman would do .
17 I thought this sort of thing would be something the Green Party nationally should decide that whether in principle we ought to affiliate with .
18 ‘ That may be something the British Athletic Federation management board will want to discuss , ’ said Ward .
19 Erm I do n't understand and all of that but what we quickly did , we assessed the seven thousand er and the actual environmental benefit means instead of a vehicle every three point five seconds on the A sixty one , there 'll only be one every four point eight seconds .
20 Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised .
21 ‘ We 're moving away from the concept of a spreadsheet being something an individual uses , in keeping with our philosophy of making people work together , rather than in isolation , ’ says Mr Ingram .
22 There 's nothing the right colour at all .
23 ‘ It 's nothing the same , ’ Rab said .
24 Theodore Barber of Medfield State Hospital in Massachusetts has carried out a series of experiments which suggest that there is nothing a hypnotised subject will do that a motivated non-hypnotised person will not do as well .
25 It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory .
26 Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that .
27 ‘ The Real ’ rides a Hendrix riff and is none the worse for it .
28 After removing ten to fifteen worms from the upturned roots the piece of lawn is returned to its original position , patted down firmly and is none the worse within a week or two .
29 It is difficult , given Korngold 's Hollywood output , not to imagine this as a mighty movie score , but it is none the worse for that , and those existing admirers of Korngold 's music should get great pleasure from this .
30 As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) .
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