Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track . |
| 2 | Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen . |
| 3 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 4 | But further acquaintance with the latest model forces me to acknowledge that the 1993 Applause is a well-equipped and well-finished machine . |
| 5 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 6 | He wants everyone to know that the Welsh selectors were right to prefer him to Colin Stephens for the game against Scotland . |
| 7 | The Court then decided that the Tribunal 's decision was perverse , because there was no material from which to conclude that the hypothetical man guilty of misconduct would not have been dismissed in the same way as was S. Her appeal was dismissed and leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused . |
| 8 | Nevertheless the anthropologist 's favourite stamping ground , " the study of kinship " , becomes arid and thoroughly misleading if the anthropologist concerned ever allows himself to forget that the domestic household , which stands at the core of any kinship system when viewed from the inside , is a social machine for the production of the means of subsistence and the reproduction of human beings . |
| 9 | There is nothing to suggest that the rural economy was anything but generalised , with evidence for specialisation appearing late in the period . |
| 10 | There is nothing to suggest that the innumerable fossil brachiopods had any other method of feeding . |
| 11 | It may surprise you to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old man in Britain today has scarcely increased at all on that of a forty-year-old man living in Britain a century ago . |
| 12 | By Sunday evening , when it was time for them to leave and the three of them were piling into the Bentley , what she felt inside her , by any definition , was far more than simply sexual excitement . |
| 13 | That leads me to conclude that the only way to erm resolve matters is through consensus and I 'm sure that that 's essentially what we 're about today . |
| 14 | There really is something to celebrate as the new hospital opens — its consultants say it is the best in the country — with a standard of care and treatment equalling that in private hospitals combined with the facilities to continue pioneering research into skin disease . |
| 15 | Are we to assume that the actual test will be trialed ? |
| 16 | How are we to ensure that the comparative information they need over time will be available to them , on the same comprehensive basis as before ? |
| 17 | Because , he claims , ‘ one can not conceive of an observation which would enable one to determine whether the Absolute did , or did not , enter into evolution and progress ’ , then whoever makes a theological statement like the one above ‘ has made an utterance which has no literal significance even for himself ’ . |
| 18 | Will he do everything to ensure that the recent announcement by the European Community , which reflects the attitude of the French and those who agree with them in respect of the general agreement on tariffs and trade proposals , will not be immensely damaging to British farming and world trade as a whole ? |
| 19 | This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequent proposals would be of an equally clear political substance . |
| 20 | In terms of relieving over-crowding and dealing with the decay of older prisons , new and refurbished buildings clearly have something to offer but the sheer scale and cost of the proposals ( an average capital cost per place of £69,000 and thereafter £13,000 per prisoner per year to run ) has drawn much critical comment . |
| 21 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |
| 22 | He says he is just an observer , there to see that the American case is put . |
| 23 | But even to themselves they pretended that all was well , for the food was good , they were protected , they had nothing to fear but the one fear ; and that struck here and there , never enough at a time to drive them away . |
| 24 | But to the Dover Harbour Board management there was an obvious solution : ‘ Tell him to wait until the 23.59 — he wo n't need to bother with any of that business then ’ . |
| 25 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 26 | ‘ Apart from that , how could I allow him to play when the Scottish League have already altered their fixtures so that none of my home-based players would be playing today ? |
| 27 | Equally serious , his trucker 's rudimentary knowledge of first-aid , led him to suspect that the pink frothy blood evident around the badly swollen nose and mouth could mean a punctured lung . |
| 28 | Professor Lawrence Lindsey 's studies ( National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No 2215 , 1987 ) led him to conclude that the optimum revenue-raising rate is somewhere between 9% and 21% . |
| 29 | Tizard 's findings led her to conclude that the adopted children were the most fortunate — as a group they had fewer problems than the restored children . |
| 30 | When many of these are taken by one person it is still useful for him or her to ensure that the separate responsibilities are kept in balance — and essential if the work is to be of use to other teachers . |