Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 2 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs . |
| 3 | Endless debate and speculation about the likely state of the going will count for nothing when the 40 runners line up at 4pm . |
| 4 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 5 | There is no evidence for this belief except one doubtful piece of hearsay ; but it is a first principle of modern reactions to Freud and psychoanalysis that facts count for nothing if the mythology is appealing enough . |
| 6 | IMAGINATIVE design and meticulous production methods count for nothing if the floor layer gets it wrong . |
| 7 | After breakfast , the first washing-up of the day and then Mum and the girls would start to prepare dinner , for everyone except the elite had ‘ dinner ’ in the middle of the day . |
| 8 | ‘ I gather Charles made life uncomfortable for everyone after the police had seen him . |
| 9 | Horse drawn buggy rides : Great fun for everyone and a good way to see the village ! |
| 10 | ‘ We want one rule for everyone and no favouritism . ’ |
| 11 | This year our resorts offer something for everyone and the only problem is deciding where to go , but wherever you end up on Corfu a great time is guaranteed . |
| 12 | There 's bargains for everyone and the prices are absolutely knockout . |
| 13 | Fourteen weeks ' full maternity pay for everyone and an end to the confusing restrictions on how long you have to work for the same company to qualify for your job back are just two of the expected improvements . |
| 14 | It is worth nothing that the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 is irregular and flickers on a millisecond time-scale . |
| 15 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 16 | Enough there for a painting — but for the most part there is an awful lot of nothing and no canvas seems big enough to contain it . |
| 17 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 18 | It was a large walled-in structure containing several graves and a plaque stating that underneath were deposited the remains of Mary , who had been the daughter of somebody and the wife of someone else . |
| 19 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 20 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 21 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 22 | Yet even the British acknowledge that there are individuals and countries ‘ wedded to sanctions ’ , and according to Commonwealth officials , Britain may well again find itself in a minority of one when the subject is debated . |
| 23 | It was selfish even to think of one when the fire service needed every drop of water to douse the bombed , blazing buildings . |
| 24 | She hesitated and then sat down at the far end of one where a lone man was wholly immersed in a newspaper . |
| 25 | For example , α 1 in equation ( 3.2 ) may be biased downwards from its true value of one if the variable is measured with error . |
| 26 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 27 | The only significant critic — I use the word ’ significant ’ with meaning — is the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) who , in spite of everything that the Whips can say to him , apparently still intends to vote against the Government tomorrow . |
| 28 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 29 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |
| 30 | In a consumer society , where wealth is synonymous with money and thus both the currency and final desideratum in a process of endless consumption , people are in danger of knowing the " price of everything and the value of nothing " . |