Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ? |
| 3 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 4 | ‘ We want nothing but the best , as befits our new status as full partners in Europe . ’ |
| 5 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 6 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 7 | But I want somebody in every one of those companies . |
| 8 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
| 9 | I know but , but you want , you want , really want one with a closed hole , you 've got it |
| 10 | You really want one with a three |
| 11 | You will also need to decide if you want one with a reclining facility . |
| 12 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |
| 13 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 14 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 15 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 16 | Suppose that our best guess of the SGP is some very very small number , say one in a billion . |
| 17 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 18 | Fool one from a Belgian port |
| 19 | The consistency in the build quality and feel of these two instruments is such that the only real difference lies in their pickup configurations ; swap one to the other and the EG-1 would become the EG-2 and vice-versa . |
| 20 | For a start , they 're a doddle to attach — plug one into the parallel port , connect the cable , find a 13A socket ( the Pocket Ethernet Adaptor needs a mains converter ) , load the drivers provided on the accompanying disk , and that 's it . |
| 21 | All the rotaries , as with any noise gate , take a little time to get into using and effective gating comes about through practice , although it can at times appear something of a black art . |
| 22 | Now , we you have neutrons and protons , they interact one with the other , but the particle that carries the interaction is not the photon , it 's the new particle called the meson , and you have got smaller particles , much less massive particles than neutrons and protons , and these are called mesons or pye mesons , and the pye meson has erm a mass which is typically a tenth of that of a proton . |
| 23 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 24 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 25 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 26 | The Americans came to London and invested large amounts of money in local film production , but put nothing into the creative infrastructure . |
| 27 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 28 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 29 | Similarly , andesite flows show none of the obvious surface features of ‘ liquid ’ lavas : pahoehoe flows never occur and all andesite flows have a rough bouldery surface . |
| 30 | If the water is available , a licence is issued , which gives the conditions under which the water can be taken , but , if there is insufficient water , the authority can refuse a licence or issue one for a smaller quantity . |