Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He usually comes to a struggling club with nothing to lose but this time he 's been part of the slump . |
| 2 | " It would be wrong for me to pretend that these problems can be solved quickly — if they can be solved at all . |
| 3 | Lal rode them , so neatly and prettily , on as many days in a hunting season as her box could carry them to near or far-distant meets . |
| 4 | Enough for me to know that this house was not a good place to be when he was alive , not good for either of you . |
| 5 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 6 | How was I to know that stupid woman would call the police ? ’ |
| 7 | How was I to know that old Ian had n't trekked across South Africa with a couple of elephants and demanded ‘ an audience with Nelson or I 'll smash you with a stump , . |
| 8 | When I think about it I 'm not sure it makes any important difference how you imagine he looks , I mean who am I to say whether this Boy you are seeing has blonde hair or dark ; but I am sure that it does matter what he means to you . |
| 9 | It is surely nothing to celebrate when sociolinguistic descriptions of behaviour are turned into folklinguistic prescriptions about ( women 's ) behaviour ; but given the realities of history and power it is also nothing to be surprised about . |
| 10 | It would need to find private land on which to meet and other hunts across the region may find themselves with similar problems . |
| 11 | While speed of thought and deed will be the name of the game 1992-style , rugby union worldwide has 12 months in which to decide whether controversial alterations to ruck and maul are workable . |
| 12 | Furthermore , there are no logical grounds on which to argue that some changes are more inimical than other changes . |
| 13 | The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia . |
| 14 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 15 | Havers strenuously denied that there had been a cover-up , and Mr Douglas Hurd , then a Minister of State at the Foreign Office , maintained that a full inquiry into the affair had revealed nothing to suggest that national security had been prejudiced . |
| 16 | However , there is nothing to suggest that offshore centres are declining in importance . |
| 17 | This is a very sinister way to end , leaving you to imagine whether this girl will suffer the same fate , and with the feeling it could be you next , and the collector will never stop . |
| 18 | They put you to sleep and this clicking continues |
| 19 | Is it possible to identify the considerations which lead you to believe that these presuppositions do n't need justification or explanation in your essay ? |
| 20 | However , it did n't invite you to consider whether that change was sensible or not , and the bulk of it was still concerned with matters of detail . |
| 21 | In a review of the legal framework for intervention in elder abuse ( Age Concern , 1986 , pp. 32–7 ) it was made explicit that : ‘ Social service departments have very few statutory responsibilities towards elderly people , very few powers to protect , none to represent and limited resources to help ’ ( Age Concern , 1986 , p. 34 ) . |
| 22 | All three send out very detailed information which should help you to decide whether open learning really is for you . |
| 23 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 24 | It 's simplicity itself to operate and unlike gas , oil or solid fuel installations , Total Heating with Central Control causes the minimum of fuss and mess when it 's installed . |
| 25 | One came from someone in prison who ‘ had nothing to give but enclosed stamp ’ ; another from a pensioner who had sellotaped a pound coin to her letter and apologized for not sending more . |
| 26 | Since joining his local unit , however , he had been given nothing to do but monotonous night drilling in almost inaccessible fields with shovels or hurleys as substitute rifles , dire shortage of arms and ammunition having restricted the unit to only two sessions of real firing practice . |
| 27 | Instead of the difference between one person being kept busy and ten people being kept busy , you have the difference between one person with nothing to do and one person with a lot to do . |
| 28 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |
| 29 | I just hope we get the right result and have something to celebrate and another game to look forward too . |
| 30 | Are we to assume that old people 's needs , joys and sorrows are the same as our own ? |