Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 2 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 3 | There 's only one in the bloody phone book ! |
| 4 | There 's only one in the top ten at the moment |
| 5 | ‘ Renascia and as much as I can remember of Earth legends and perhaps something about the Dark Lodestar as well . ’ |
| 6 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 7 | This arrangement obliges anyone sitting there to turn his head around sharply towards the left if he wants to see A … — especially anyone in the fourth chair , which is the farthest away . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 9 | Thus none of the proposed candidates has the properties expected of a rapid retrograde messenger . |
| 10 | It is thus something like the universal yellow which pervades a yellow object without requiring any particular arrangement of individual parts . |
| 11 | If you can get it back that 's why I say do the graph if you can get it back to erm but it 's not just something to the fifth , it 's really It 's something to the tenth . |
| 12 | There 's generally one in the main parents ' bedroom , perhaps there 's one in one in er one of the youngsters ' bedrooms , there could even be one in the kitchen these days . |
| 13 | Presumably none of the former volunteered for the project ! |
| 14 | Recording a verdict of suicide , coroner David Morris said : ‘ It is easy enough to criticise the bank as a body — there is always someone at the sharp end . |
| 15 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 16 | Still nobody in the chemical industry put two and two together . |
| 17 | Hardly anybody in the big wide world has heard of us , let alone been influenced by our lives . |
| 18 | Hardly anyone in the packed congregations of about 1,500 people seemed to know either the hymns or the prayers . |
| 19 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 20 | Another problem , unexpected , was that practically everyone amongst the Scots leadership wanted to be involved . |
| 21 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 22 | Now she knew that there was probably nothing on the other side . |
| 23 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 24 | A week later someone from the social services came to see us . |
| 25 | Clearly none of the religious traditions we have examined asserts the latter . |
| 26 | There was practically none of the systematic planning and oversight which so characterised Bath and many other spas : that could only come from the implementation of a single plan by a great landowner and architect , and Brighton had a few of these . |
| 27 | Though not as obsessive as Bacon , Hobbes shares not only an interest in the classifications of areas of study , but also something of the actual divisions . |
| 28 | Vermeer sprang to mind as there is also something about the intense luminosity of the effect of the light-boxes that reminded me of that unique concentration of light in paintings executed with the aid of camera obscuras ( ancestor of the camera ) . |
| 29 | Chair , where , where erm , agreements er , leave things open wherever possible , the courts will interpret them as the parties intended to act reasonably one to the other , and er , if there were a formal agreement and that was then tested it would be a matter for the courts to decide what was reasonable , obviously asking for , what was it you 're suggesting , ten million ? |
| 30 | But now nothing on the political-economic front is as clear-cut as it used to be . |