Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [indef pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want one rule for everyone and no favouritism . ’ |
| 2 | And he was the only lecturer who would admit that he 'd changed his mind about something since the last lecture , and that made a great impression on me . |
| 3 | These poor people have done no harm to anybody and a lot of them will have fought wars for a lot of these same people who are now deciding to put them out of their homes in the twilight of their lives . |
| 4 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |
| 5 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 6 | Playing golf or walking the dog is ideal exercise for anyone and the fresh air will be beneficial too . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) Information which was confidential , such as details of a secret process ; this type was so confidential that it could not be used by the employee at any time for the benefit of anyone but the employer . |
| 8 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 9 | The common feature of all these interpretations is , however , that , the gentry apart , they define rank and degree in none but the most general terms . |
| 10 | This was an act of the most palpable commonsense , for John Reith , the Manager , was willing to give the cloak of independence to everything that the Government wanted . |
| 11 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While some regard these changes with optimism and others with foreboding , there is a growing consensus that they are changes of a very different magnitude and nature to anything since the Industrial Revolution — and even that comparison may underestimate the process as far as time-scale is concerned . |
| 14 | The presence of the two bishops , not to mention the priests and nuns , gave confidence to everybody as the plane rose into the air . |
| 15 | Horse drawn buggy rides : Great fun for everyone and a good way to see the village ! |
| 16 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 17 | The only significant critic — I use the word ’ significant ’ with meaning — is the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) who , in spite of everything that the Whips can say to him , apparently still intends to vote against the Government tomorrow . |
| 18 | In a consumer society , where wealth is synonymous with money and thus both the currency and final desideratum in a process of endless consumption , people are in danger of knowing the " price of everything and the value of nothing " . |
| 19 | We had , we had to conservative speakers so far , erm , and Councillor Brock seem to me , in a sense to be summing up that phrase about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing , because there was the the the es essential arithmetical calculation about percentages , and savings . |
| 20 | If you find yourself yearning for a relationship with someone where the feelings are not mutual , or the other person 's love has died , ask yourself what aspect of you that person represents . |
| 21 | If the court wishes to regulate the child 's contact with anyone while a supervision order is in force it must make a contact order under s8 . |
| 22 | It was a credit to everybody and the people of Merseyside who put the finishing touches to everything with their overwhelming support . |
| 23 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 24 | A victory for anyone but the Conservatives on Thursday would result in a strengthened grip of the Brussels bureaucracy , a direct threat to the Act of Union , and a swift slide towards an alien voting system . |
| 25 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 26 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 27 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 28 | It is the purpose of premises to make sense of something and the purpose of evidences to make solid sense of it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was a large walled-in structure containing several graves and a plaque stating that underneath were deposited the remains of Mary , who had been the daughter of somebody and the wife of someone else . |