Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one manages a plume of blood . |
| 2 | Oh well that signature for it every time and it goes on his file every one has a file . |
| 3 | No one gets a quota ? |
| 4 | ‘ No one reads a paper in the City Pride . ’ |
| 5 | Fortunately he did n't , for what she said now was , ‘ There 's no one likes a laugh more than I do , but there 's a time and a place for everything . |
| 6 | Twenty-five acts are booked to do seven minutes each and no one does a spot shorter than 15 . |
| 7 | Fran 's gone to make sure no one lays a finger on a brother , that 's what it is . |
| 8 | One of the problems in the public sector is that no one keeps a balance sheet , so there is no proper record of maintenance costs and of depreciating assets — whereas the business man or woman who manages a private care home is alive to the importance of maintenance , and of protecting the value of that asset . |
| 9 | When you deal in guns no one breaks a bargain . |
| 10 | No one teaches a child to walk , climb , shout , talk , play or to manipulate grown-ups ; it just knows . |
| 11 | No one expects a practitioner to have time for much theoretical musing or for large empirical studies . |
| 12 | ‘ No one has a go at Van Basten , who 's aggressive and gets stuck in with his elbows flying . |
| 13 | No one has a monopoly of concern about this issue . |
| 14 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 15 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 16 | No one has a right to foster or adopt . |
| 17 | ‘ No one wants a byelection , ’ said Mr Peter Roberts , the former local party chairman and a supporter of Mr Field . |
| 18 | No one wants a head 's rambling , spur of the minute monologue at the end of the day . |
| 19 | Though he wants and needs work , no one wants a man of his age ; furthermore , he realizes that his academic talents are not needed either . |
| 20 | No one wants a plastic telephone receiver which sags after sitting in its cradle for several weeks , or a car tyre that develops a flat spot if parked in one position for too long , or clothes made from synthetic fibres which become baggy and deformed after short periods of wear . |
| 21 | You will find the corpses of the poor , but no one gives a fig ! ’ |
| 22 | If they see me there , no one gives a bugger . |
| 23 | People have been murdered for this job and no one gives a shit . |
| 24 | If you want to know why Phillipe Starck appears in just about every magazine , why Tokyo is still the in-place for designers , and why no one gives a tinker 's cuss about public design , your chance to find out is at a public debate next Friday under the gaze of Rubens 's corpulent characters on the painted ceiling of the Banqueting House in Whitehall . |
| 25 | She says the reason for this is ‘ the need to believe that the event recounted actually took place , or is taking place : no one believes a prophet , and even a prediction needs to be realised within the narrative for sense and interest ’ ( 329 ) . |