Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 2.24 This type of person can be compared with a younger man in a less promising position , or perhaps someone in a hazardous occupation such as a steel erector or a steeplejack .
2 Or perhaps none of the shirts is for me …
3 Depending on the particular combination of methods researchers have used , they have reported a fear of strangers in all or nearly none of the babies studied .
4 Not just the content of erm the two hours but anything else which you feel is pertinent to you as a group or indeed you as an individual .
5 These are potentially dangerous side effects for anyone with heart disease , epilepsy , asthma , or indeed anyone in a poor mental or physical condition .
6 Or maybe something like the morning star that still hung in the dawning sky .
7 I mean that er all possibly threats had been secured by use of handcuffs and that there was no likelihood of anybody hiding er in the premises or certainly nobody in the premises with a firearm .
8 They 'll then pass the information on so that eventually everyone in the road knows .
9 Around 70% of the area 's population and business are linked to digital exchanges and BT is already considering upgrading the remainder so that soon anyone in the Highlands can be ISDN-linked .
10 The role of women in the English Civil Wars is interesting , because the fact that nearly everyone in the country took sides either for Parliament or for the King , and all able-bodied men would be recruited and this meant that women were left without protection , and had to survive somehow .
11 Does my right hon. Friend accept that practically everyone in the House welcomes his initiative on repossessions , no matter what political claptrap we may hear later ?
12 With Wayne Rosing off to run FirstPerson , Dave Ditzel has been named acting head of Sun Microsystems Laboratories , an appointment it 'd be crazy not to make permanent : Ditzel , among his other credits , has been responsible for RISC and we 're expecting to see some interesting aspects of his handiwork soon ; Sun Labs , from whence Sun 's ideas flow , figures it 's handling the transfer of research to development better than practically anyone in the industry — the secret is moving the people with the project .
13 Mr Jackson says that maybe someone in the house can look after him .
14 At 4 × 22 watts , the V10 has a third more oomph than almost anything at the price .
15 Far to the east , on the very borders of Europe and Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea , a range of mountains of great beauty and ultra-alpine dimensions holds a central knot of peaks 1,000 metres higher than almost anything in the Alps .
16 Recent writers have suggested that almost everything about the music-halls and vaudeville theatres has been gilded by memory .
17 The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’
18 I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland , and being struck by the fact that almost everyone on the island had the most enormous jug-handle ears .
19 It soon became clear that almost everyone in the Curia was in favour of making a distinction between investiture and homage , forbidding that which no one strongly supported , and gradually abandoning that to which almost no one strongly objected .
20 The paradox of counselling is that almost everyone in the caring professions believes that he or she is a " natural " counsellor when in fact very few have that natural skill .
21 Maybe the Food Safety Bill will be useful damage-limitation : pre-empting public terror that almost nothing in the supermarket is safe to eat .
22 A review of the notes of our cancer patients suggests that virtually none of the cancer patients were taking disease suppressant drugs , such as salazopyrin , regularly or at all .
23 The dealers say that barely anyone on the ISE 's ruling council has experience in the derivatives markets .
24 What seems more difficult to find nowadays is genuine passion and thankfully no-one with the will to survive could ever describe Bitumen as wishy-washy .
25 And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ?
26 ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’
27 Cost reductions there are many , many actions we 've taken and so lots of the cost reduction is the accumulation of er of rather smaller ones , but the main ones are redundancy , sadly , more redundancy and we 'll give you the numbers in a second er we 've asked our suppliers for greater discounts or better discounts and been successful here .
28 He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority .
29 What I have in mind then is a description of the route from a cyclist 's point of view ; distances , gradients , junctions ; alternative routes , eg longer loops for the more adventurous ; cafes , pubs , tearooms , and public places with benches ( because cyclists often like to ‘ eat their piece ’ out in the open ) ; some illustrations of landscapes ( these could either be line drawings based on sketches , or photographs ) ; and perhaps something on the history of the place-names , which is of interest to many cyclists ( eg where did Biggar get its name ? ) .
30 ‘ Renascia and as much as I can remember of Earth legends and perhaps something about the Dark Lodestar as well . ’
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