Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And there was nothing to connect the nights I shared with Jean-Claude with the afternoons I spent with Émile . |
| 3 | He did n't want everyone to see the marks of his sins . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Such poorly presented results do nothing to support the credibility ( and hence the funding ! ) of an interesting field which deserves more critical attention . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the films , which included Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ the Rye , did nothing to support the claims made for them . |
| 7 | But there is nothing to support the theory that the crew made up the story , and no apparent motive for them to do so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cutting their pay will do nothing to induce a recovery . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 16 | But when the Conservatives gained power they did nothing to implement the scheme . |
| 17 | ‘ If he was here today he would be urging everyone to support the research efforts of the Foundation . ’ |
| 18 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 19 | In the preview of the Slimline Pop-up Toaste r ( RRP £24.99 ) , despite the promise of the elaborate programme , there was an absolute dichotomy between singed bread and burnt offerings — no happy mean , nothing to sustain the gravitas of Oxford marmalade with its acerbic subtext , nor the more rechercheé exigencies of Gentlemen 's Relish . |
| 20 | As Fig. 3.6 shows , the change of context for the latter group did nothing to restore the ability of the stimuli to evoke the UR . |
| 21 | Until 1988 there had been nothing to indicate an increase in Palestinian confidence in the United States . |
| 22 | Old Mahu , the gatekeeper who had slept on the night of Mertseger 's disappearance , had been dismissed without a pension , but that action had done nothing to mollify the general 's conscience . |
| 23 | But she coaxed him along with her unwaveringly sympathetic smile , and he ordered everyone to dismantle the tables and re-set them . |
| 24 | It was rumoured that Laura had an eye for the men , which did nothing to consolidate the marriage , or to abate Woolridge 's white-hot temper , which was never far away . |
| 25 | The man representing the government washed his hands of responsibility , he could do nothing to meet the striker 's demands , he said , because Moscow would n't let him . |
| 26 | This policy of jobs at all costs is doing nothing to meet the needs of women . |
| 27 | There was nothing to distract the duchess from the inescapable fact that one 's stomach and hips had acquired that unfortunate texture halfway between a satsuma and a helping of lumpy school custard . |
| 28 | But there is nothing to preclude a charge being brought under section 5 even though the arrest was not effected under the section . |
| 29 | Once again , however , it costs nothing to try an idea out on the screen . |
| 30 | So English women went on being under-educated with nothing to counteract the filth and lies and daily racism of the English media . |