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 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 4 | Because you say someone with a large family and they need a lot of money , you see someone with a large family |
| 5 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
| 6 | I know but , but you want , you want , really want one with a closed hole , you 've got it |
| 7 | You will also need to decide if you want one with a reclining facility . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 10 | Although most customers want something like a conventional ferry , but faster , manufacturers have generally used materials and construction techniques from the aircraft industry . |
| 11 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Fool one from a Belgian port |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | These facts , however , in their turn pose something of a theoretical paradox . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 20 | At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture . |
| 21 | The Americans came to London and invested large amounts of money in local film production , but put nothing into the creative infrastructure . |
| 22 | As yet , though , the best measurements of the microwave background show none of the tell-tale marks that such flaws would leave . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Leave blisters alone , just loosely cover everything with a clean dry cloth and call the doctor . |
| 25 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 26 | Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later . |
| 27 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 28 | It was n't a story that put anyone in a good light . |
| 29 | Also Bach 's Magnificat is clearly the work of a genius at white-heat , whilst Kuhnau 's score(s) , if lacking nothing in sheer inspiration , exhibit nothing like the extraordinary level of Bach 's individuality and imagination . |
| 30 | This means that the facts unc we are assuming are in principle decidable , an so add nothing to the real power of our system . |