Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Zuwaitina canteen milk seemed to everyone concerned an instance of just such a letter-of-the-law possession , The realization that it was an issue of constitutional principle came slowly , when the Jordanian 's lawyer ( Abdulsalam Abdulhadi ) outlined his defence . |
| 2 | Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 . |
| 3 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 4 | He did n't want everyone to see the marks of his sins . |
| 5 | Two final points : first , except to imply that , because the rights of ownership in joint stock companies are rarely used , they can be discounted , the chapter offers nothing to support a conclusion that the reduction or abrogation of those rights , such as the ‘ radical extension ’ of the unions ' role would require , would command general support , and second , it gives no guidance on the question whether that ‘ radical extension ’ would create genuine industrial democracy . |
| 6 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the films , which included Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ the Rye , did nothing to support the claims made for them . |
| 8 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 9 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 10 | Meeting the demand for veterinary surgeons for the army , while raising the social status of the young profession , did nothing to support the needs of agriculture . |
| 11 | Cutting their pay will do nothing to induce a recovery . |
| 12 | Nothing destroys a sense of humour more than fear . |
| 13 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 14 | As it was then understood : here again , Cole 's problem is to reconcile a course seen by the Pioneers themselves as treasonable , with the fact that it foreshadowed the policy to be followed by successful Consumers ' Co-operation , that policy which for its purposes made co-operative production incidental and subordinate to it and which most certainly did nothing to promote the development of an industrial co-operative sector properly so-called . |
| 15 | When I spoke to the Conservative association in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency I heard only a litany of problems caused by the Labour-controlled council , which has done absolutely nothing to promote the area . |
| 16 | Decent , affordable public sector housing provides opportunities for wide ranges of people in our country and your government does nothing to promote the right to rent , the ability to get into decent housing where people otherwise would have no such chance . |
| 17 | No-one wins a dispute with Graham , so there 's hardly any point indulging in a slanging match . |
| 18 | The supporters were happy , the players were happy and everyone agreed the Everton board had pulled off a coup in tempting their most successful manager back to Merseyside . |
| 19 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 20 | Everyone agrees the safety of 500 pupils is paramount . |
| 21 | Everyone agrees the camera loves her ’ |
| 22 | Everyone agrees the republics need all the parctical help they can get to stop them tearing themselves apart . |
| 23 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 24 | It just occurred to me that not everyone got a chance to see the FA Youth Cup Final ! |
| 25 | Everyone got a pen ? |
| 26 | Just over a year ago everyone got a bit of a scare when an opinion poll showed that one third of the French agreed with the extremist ideas supported by Mr Le Pen — priority for the French ( as opposed to immigrants ) in jobs , housing , and family benefits ; the abolition of all income tax and its replacement with higher rates of VAT ; the reintroduction of the death penalty for murderers and drug traffickers ; and the expulsion of the immigrant long-term unemployed ; the banning of tourist visas for Arabs and Africans ( to stop illegal immigration ) , and so on . |
| 27 | Everyone got a copy ? |
| 28 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 29 | But when the Conservatives gained power they did nothing to implement the scheme . |
| 30 | The article also quotes a source at the Ministry of Industry as saying that the government wants the spin-off , with corporate outside investors for the new entity , adding that , although the government is not opening up France Telecom 's capital to outside investors , ‘ nothing prohibits the privatisation of its subsidiaries . ’ |