Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
2 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
3 | But trainer Tim Forster 's assistant Henry Daly expected nothing less of the 2-5 favourite . |
4 | Nice to see someone name-drop on the list ; - ) hehehe . |
5 | Michael Ramsey succeeded someone famous throughout the land . |
6 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
7 | She was intrigued and , as her meeting with him was social , she found nothing odd about the offer of a drink . |
8 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
9 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
10 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
11 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
12 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |
13 | The office block on the Albert Embankment which houses his penthouse looks nothing special from the outside — a drab 1960s monstrosity in concrete and glass . |
14 | It 's brilliantly programmed , but adds nothing new to the platform genre — no interesting devices , no secret rooms , no exciting artifacts … no nothing , really . |
15 | One adds nothing new to the theory of casework in Saying this ; nor in remarking that the caseworker is essentially part of the case with which he or she deals , so that his or her sexuality is as much a part of it as the client 's . |
16 | Since both Chartists and temperance men remain in short supply in Ripon , we have been able to discover nothing more about the singularly unsuccessful Mr Lees . |
17 | While EC competition law has nothing equivalent to the wide ‘ public-interest ’ test of UK law , Article 85(3) does permit the granting of exemptions for agreements between firms that can be shown to produce beneficial effects . |
18 | Unlike America , Britain has nothing equivalent to the ‘ food bank ’ , through which gifts of food can be distributed on a community-wide basis to poor people . |
19 | The taxi driver scribbled something indecipherable upon the back of a Woodbine packet and handed it to Cornelius . |
20 | My view is that the religious believer who makes a credal statement such as ‘ I believe in God ’ is affirming something similar to the believer in ghosts . |
21 | It is to discover something more of the pain of God , the hurt to which he is so constantly exposed , even now , after Sinai , and after Golgotha . |
22 | At most I would only buy one each of the values up to 15 volts . |
23 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
24 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
25 | The Thatcher administration was still new to the power it was to hold for the rest of the decade and a reader might reasonably expect to find something seminal in the report . |
26 | ‘ Nothing I can think of , unless you want something fancy in the way of cheeses . |
27 | If you want something different from the standard offerings of garden centres , order fledgling plants in plugs of soil , and seedlings . |
28 | Written and produced by Paul Simpson , the man behind Serious Intention 's garage classic ‘ You Do n't Know ’ , Peacetime 's recent track perfectly illustrates one half of the Nineties disco equation . |
29 | The other available forms of pre-testing for print ads by means of survey research are all elaborations of the folder test — for example , an ad can be inserted into an actual magazine rather than a folder to provide something nearer to the real world . |
30 | Libyan forces capture one half of the country on behalf of one side in the civil war . |