Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 2 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 3 | It has operated on the rather inequitable basis of paying different amounts of money or none at all according to the source of disability rather than its extent . |
| 4 | You know , it 's got ta be Monday to Friday or none at all has n't it ? |
| 5 | Think later , be about five o'clock or quarter to five , or something like that depends when it 's on , have to come in early if they want to have it with us . |
| 6 | Ehm just to get back about the point the studio being dark erm it 's just as a suggestion has anybody thought of actually running say a week 's worth of drama courses with er an artist in residence or something like that coming in to do work shops . |
| 7 | Even where it at first appears to be a rather pointless reaction there is invariably found to be some rational element , which means that conflict must be classed alongside other forms of purposive social action . |
| 8 | So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something . |
| 9 | depths or anything like that does it ? |
| 10 | We had n't petrol or anything like that to get them off . |
| 11 | Okay well they 're two completely different spelling different things and you got them bot right I did n't I did n't help you I did n't even say and think about which sort of bean you 're using or anything like that did I . |
| 12 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 13 | I mean there 's no , there 's no fee or anything like that involved , so the fact that you 're all seen as members will cut down on any recriminations you might have . |
| 14 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 15 | I began to think that I was in an isolation hospital , until I realised that nothing at all happens after six o ‘ clock until breakfast next morning — not even a hot drink except in emergencies . |
| 16 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 17 | Whether it was the wishes of the archdiocese ; or whether it was the inarticulate growls of air-marshals ; or whether it was the judgement that someone of 73 carries too many years to move to big new work ; or whether someone among Eden 's advisers thought scholarship important for some bishops — Eden rejected Fisher 's preference that Ramsey should go to London . |
| 18 | I am certain of one thing , however : we must do all in our power to ensure that none of that happens . |
| 19 | Well in a way it 's not surprising that none of this got done , if you reflect how common it is that poetic plans do n't get fulfilled . |
| 20 | He wished that he could go home and that none of this had happened . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , Tories did remain committed to the principles of passive obedience , non-resistance and indefeasible hereditary right , but they were to argue that none of these had been compromised by the Glorious Revolution . |
| 22 | So you can see that none of these have got any mud on them or anything like that . |
| 23 | A study of nearly 2,500 sixth formers , conducted by Dr Anne Charlton of the Cancer Research Campaign , found that one in five smoked at colleges where smoking was not permitted , compared with one in three where smoking was allowed . |
| 24 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |
| 25 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 26 | Because really in my view it should be that once something like this happened then it should be on the owners to prove they have n't been negligent . |
| 27 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 28 | Although fewer than one in 10 identified another family member as unable to work due to their cystic fibrosis , the employment rate among mothers of adults with cystic fibrosis is less than that expected in women aged 45–60 . |
| 29 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 30 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |