Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots . |
| 2 | He compares the suggested scenario with a group of people who have boxes ; in each box there is something ( or nothing in some , perhaps ) and each calls what is in his box his ‘ beetle ’ . |
| 3 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 4 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |
| 5 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 6 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 7 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 8 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 9 | Or me in this unusual situation . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's something or someone in that damn barn . |
| 11 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 12 | I said I 'd like a break , spend a week with aunty Mary or summat in that flat , driving me |
| 13 | Any use of nuclear weapons which resulted in significant fall-out coming down in neutral countries , or which in other ways violated neutral territory , would clearly fall foul of this provision . |
| 14 | The beautiful , high-born maidens who wait to be rescued , or who in chaste comradeship help in their own rescue , are too readily recognised as akin to the heroines of our own time . |
| 15 | Most noticeable were the ‘ naughty ’ children , the ones who had been sent to be told off , or who in some way had become ‘ cases ’ . |
| 16 | The final choice appears to rest between sites at Llandrinio , Powys , or one in neighbouring Shropshire . |
| 17 | Total of 9 lifts and 9 falls = Loss 810 cu. ft. = 9/100 lock — that is to say there is no loss , other than that of 9 separate ‘ fits ’ , or one in each case of 90 cubic feet . |
| 18 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) Ensure the activities provide learning experiences for pupils through which you can assess their attainment of each attainment target or one in particular . |
| 20 | In 1984–5 , over 7 million households , or one in three of all households , were in receipt of housing benefit , and the cost was equal to more than 10 per cent of the entire social security budget . |
| 21 | Well I , I can , I mean if , if somebody erm , objects to the fact that being recorded and let's say erm private business meeting or something in that sense |
| 22 | quite a few we can write at the bottom er for more inf if you have any more information or something in small print |
| 23 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
| 24 | or ex-offenders or something in some category o or other , or er perhaps amongst young erm you know underprivileged groups who provide a lot of the erm juvenile criminals . |
| 25 | That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases . |
| 26 | If we accept , with Aristotle , that a citizen by true definition is someone who involves himself or herself in public or community affairs , then that person is ‘ active ’ . |
| 27 | Rather , that person is also entitled to expect others to behave towards him or her in certain ways . |
| 28 | To advise him or her in these decisions , the Act establishes three statutory bodies , the National Curriculum Council ( for England ) , the Curriculum Council for Wales , and the School Examinations and Assessment Council . |
| 29 | Did you , or anyone in this household , see anything of the incident ? ’ |
| 30 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |