Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was too deeply into the part to see anything outside the stage . |
| 2 | This decision represents something of a final throw . |
| 3 | Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country . |
| 4 | It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’ |
| 5 | But ideologically , nationalisation became something of an irrelevance since both major political parties accepted that some form of state control and assistance was essential for coal , rail transport , electricity , gas , civil aviation , cable and wireless , and the Bank of England . |
| 6 | The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis . |
| 7 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 8 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 9 | I may not for instance sue somebody in a court of law . |
| 10 | The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect . |
| 11 | So including them here on a stock instrument represents something of a treat for the would-be vintage guitar purchaser who has been otherwise stopped in his tracks by the silly money habitually demanded for early '60s Strats . |
| 12 | But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting . |
| 13 | The fashion for opera , its current potency to promote anything from a fast car to a pension scheme , does not venture beyond Puccini . |
| 14 | One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house . |
| 15 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 16 | They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort . |
| 17 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 18 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 19 | The British Medical Association says one in a hundred schoolgirls under sixteen is becoming pregnant . |
| 20 | ‘ If the agent says something about a house it must be verified . |
| 21 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 22 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 23 | Eye pigments occurring in the ommatidial cells of some insects may be of special interest since studies of their metabolism reveal something of the mode of action of genes controlling eye colour . |
| 24 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 25 | Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued . |
| 26 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 27 | In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women . |
| 28 | Do you think that this tragedy says anything about the problem of male violence towards women ? ’ |
| 29 | It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I do n't like knitting . |
| 30 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |