Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 2 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 3 | Someone that means the world out there is not such a cold place after all . |
| 4 | There is nothing that tells the truth about us , as Christian people , so much as our prayer life . |
| 5 | When labour has finished , the world celebrates with gifts of knitted pastels and flowers in ceramic baby booties , nothing that acknowledges the momentous nature of this event : the forging and re-forging or three people . |
| 6 | I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God ! |
| 7 | The fretwork is well up to Valley Arts standard , with nothing that offends the eye or fingers in any way . |
| 8 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 9 | The occupation did nothing except to fuel the sense of outrage the Italians felt about their treatment at the hands of the older powers . |
| 10 | The Turks cautiously did nothing except invite the powers to maintain the Berlin settlement . |
| 11 | But so far Sergeant Juron had done nothing except walk the Emperor along , swaying , in their wake . |
| 12 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 13 | What you do , you have your group together , and you have a facilitator , somebody that presents the problem , and you also have somebody that 's going to be the scribe . |
| 14 | We wo n't have a class on that 's just somebody that republishes the book . |
| 15 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 16 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 17 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 18 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 19 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 20 | Particularly when good applicants are in short supply advertisements placed in Teachers ' Centres and nearby colleges , faculties and institutes of education cost nothing and improve the trawl . |
| 21 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |
| 22 | YOU long to shower gifts on everyone and hate the thought of being called a Scrooge . |
| 23 | Hothersall welcomed everyone and opened the Rally with the U.C.M. prayers for vocations . |
| 24 | No one was allowed to pass without a contribution : he knew everyone and covered the clubs , the pubs , the chip shops , the football ground . |
| 25 | It was for nothing but to counter the parallel sky , and I found it mystical in its impracticality . |
| 26 | If I want nothing but to prepare the best Chinese meal I can manage then I should just follow John 's instructions . |
| 27 | She decided to do nothing but to throw the ill-gotten soap and bath cube into the sea when she was quite alone . |
| 28 | And now comes the Armonk bombshell : it is committed to IBM 's RS/6000 and PowerPC at a time when everything that bears the IBM name has overnight become tainted . |
| 29 | Everything that made the album interesting and enjoyable ( quirky samples , ambience , humour , diversity ) has disappeared into the ether , replaced by mind-crushingly tedious , minimalist techno and weedy industrial wankcore . |
| 30 | It is ‘ space to be ’ , when you gather up everything that crosses the threshold of your life and where it is interpreted in the light of your walk with God . |