Example sentences of "[vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club . |
| 2 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 5 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 6 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 7 | Johannsen also claimed one in the latter area at 1150 . |
| 8 | My God , for 15 years I 'd written nothing but a few songs . ’ |
| 9 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 10 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 11 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 12 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 13 | The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it . |
| 14 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 16 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 17 | The tragedy is , we 've done nothing about the exclusive reliance on interest rates , we 've done nothing about the continuing erosion of jobs , and particularly so in the regions , er and this government has er wasted the summer months ; when it could have taken action it has merely compounded the problems that are of it 's own creation in the mismanagement of the economy . |
| 18 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 20 | Although administered by a council , which met three times a year to review policy , it had undergone none of the post-war modernization and investment that had rescued the rest of the farming industry from the crippling effects of war . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
| 22 | His smile was relentless and Miss D'Arcy who , until then , had felt none of the virulent force m. the man , was pushed into embarrassment . |
| 23 | Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes . |
| 24 | Drouot salerooms may have seen none of the spectacular sales which are so good for promotion . |
| 25 | Their doctor had murmured something about a weak heart , but Lord Grafton had dismissed the warning , saying the physician was an old woman . |
| 26 | he has n't missed one since the second world war |
| 27 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 28 | Made one at the same time together . |
| 29 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 30 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |