Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Process is the word used to describe how someone or a group is tackling a task . |
| 2 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 3 | It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists . |
| 4 | The leader then touches someone and the confederate returns and touches the same person . |
| 5 | The dissonance between the act of firing someone and the manager 's beliefs about what is acceptable or decent behaviour from one individual to another can be extremely painful . |
| 6 | ‘ Players who whack someone when the play is up the other end of the field are cowards . |
| 7 | erm and there was nothing that a Member of Parliament could do , this is the trouble I mean it , it with everybody was saying you should of contacted us before it went |
| 8 | Yes , there is nothing wrong with you , nothing that a rest can not cure . |
| 9 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 10 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 11 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 12 | The ‘ revelation ’ to which they witness offers nothing that the development of a rational religious sensibility would not in time be able to discover for itself . |
| 13 | Nothing that the head could do would make religion pervade the life of the school but it had to be recognized , he believed , that religion does permeate some people 's whole private lives . |
| 14 | think what I 'd like , but I could n't prove anything and erm , so there was nothing that the ombudsman could do at that stage , at , as the stage complete |
| 15 | Virtually nothing that the state does can contradict the theory . |
| 16 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 17 | Mr Lumsden said : ‘ There is a very very strict rule that during a General Election nothing that the Government does can intrude on the election process . ’ |
| 18 | It is worth nothing that the X-ray emission from Cygnus X-1 is irregular and flickers on a millisecond time-scale . |
| 19 | There was nothing that the parish council could do , as at the time much of the area was within Old Alresford . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs . |
| 22 | There is nothing that the dog could do that could express the difference between the two thoughts : ‘ My master is at the door ’ and ‘ I am thinking that my master is at the door ’ . |
| 23 | There is nothing that the disease likes more than a circuitous argument in search of absolute proof on precise definitions of addiction . |
| 24 | There was n't the pill in those days and there was simply er really nothing that the woman could do to stop herself getting pregnant . |
| 25 | The Oxford Thesaurus Electronic Edition is very easy to use , the results of a search appear on the screen almost instantaneously and it lacks nothing that the book would have . |
| 26 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 27 | McCauley added : ‘ I want to make it clear to everyone that the club is not in financial difficulties . ’ |
| 28 | It became obvious to everyone that the Tournament could not continue and after another undue delay , the Earl of Eglinton announced that it was cancelled for the day . |
| 29 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 30 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |