Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMAGINATIVE design and meticulous production methods count for nothing if the floor layer gets it wrong . |
| 2 | There is no evidence for this belief except one doubtful piece of hearsay ; but it is a first principle of modern reactions to Freud and psychoanalysis that facts count for nothing if the mythology is appealing enough . |
| 3 | After breakfast , the first washing-up of the day and then Mum and the girls would start to prepare dinner , for everyone except the elite had ‘ dinner ’ in the middle of the day . |
| 4 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 5 | Yet even the British acknowledge that there are individuals and countries ‘ wedded to sanctions ’ , and according to Commonwealth officials , Britain may well again find itself in a minority of one when the subject is debated . |
| 6 | It was selfish even to think of one when the fire service needed every drop of water to douse the bombed , blazing buildings . |
| 7 | For example , α 1 in equation ( 3.2 ) may be biased downwards from its true value of one if the variable is measured with error . |
| 8 | Anna , emboldened by the energy of taking action , said , ‘ Would I be paid more for one than the other ? ’ |
| 9 | Learning to draw Islamic patterns at Eid , or Rangoli patterns at Diwali can not be considered to be mathematics unless the mathematical ideas embedded in the patterns are fully explored — considering rotation , reflection and translation can turn this investigation into one where the place of mathematics in different cultures is clear rather than leaving one feeling that examples of important geometric ideas are somehow ‘ outside ’ the real world of mathematics . |
| 10 | And a wife has no other relationship where she is told to submit in everything as the church submits to Christ . |
| 11 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 12 | The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners ' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use . |
| 13 | the lights dim to nothing while the sound of fighting continues . |
| 14 | Does the Minister agree that no matter what progress is made in energy efficiency — in Wales or in the west country , for example — it could all come to nothing if the Government press ahead and force British Gas to start up a new company for the transportation of gas through its pipelines ? |
| 15 | I leave my first category , therefore , and come to one where the prognosis is less gloomy . |
| 16 | During training what we do in the training algorithm is is of course set a a link here or a weight here to one if the output of my decoder is set to one . |
| 17 | ‘ But it wo n't be imposed on anybody because the patient 's view remains paramount . ’ |
| 18 | The presence of the two bishops , not to mention the priests and nuns , gave confidence to everybody as the plane rose into the air . |
| 19 | The idea that anything can last for ever is nonsense , and if that 's what happens with Kiss , then fair enough ; if it does n't mean anything more to anyone than the time the band was functioning then that 's also perfectly fine with me . ’ |
| 20 | This trend for library guides to be more flexible , to be better designed or to be tailored more to the needs of the user is encouraging , but it all goes for nought if the user does not use them . |
| 21 | Your business will be better handled by an efficient , well-organized , calm office than by one where the impression is one of barely contained chaos ; |