Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again . |
| 2 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know anything of the Old Ones , or the carvings that are in the museum ? ’ |
| 4 | This is not necessarily a central problem , but the Kingman Report does recommend that pupils should understand something of the systematic nature of languages other than English . |
| 5 | Only if he really craned his neck sideways could he see anything of the front bedroom windows and then not enough to make the effort worthwhile . |
| 6 | They would possess none of the inherent tactile and balancing powers of hers , or that creature outside . |
| 7 | Secondly , is this the earliest pattern in this area and , if not , can we detect anything of the previous arrangement ? |
| 8 | Locke replied that he could not do it ; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton . |
| 9 | Mr McLean will have none of the stirring signs of contrition on the part of the SMG . |
| 10 | Of course , such enlargements would have none of the glossy prettiness of the snaps in the guidebook . |
| 11 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 12 | We still have our two traditional enemies , but now a third looms an enemy in the Labour Party an enemy supporting the now ancient cry of the Tories and the Tory national press , for one man one vote replacing the vote in the trade unions a distancing of the Labour Party from the unions if we let them get away with this , it would mean none of the established political parties represent the interests of ordinary working people the people who I 've always represented , that 's what I think about , just them ! |
| 13 | Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are , from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees . |
| 14 | Stephanie had hopes that the familial Christmas dinner might in some way restore something of the frail threadwork of decency and courteous behaviour broken by the earlier violence of her father and brother . |
| 15 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 16 | I said to mum she need n't , mum did n't get none of the bleeding details . |
| 17 | But Packer 's difficulties are worth recognising because not only do they reveal something of the cultural context within which Auerbach 's work signifies , they also typify — albeit unconsciously — the burden of historiography and the demands of convention in writing about anything that purports to be a portrait . |
| 18 | About thirty in each suite to differ and a master key and as I say there was five suites and they had to make a key that 'd open everyone of the fifty-five . |
| 19 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think I need remind anyone of the tragic blow which the Miletti family , and indeed the whole of Perugia , has suffered today . |
| 21 | As all Sainsbury 's wines , Vintage Selection or otherwise , are carefully described both on the bottle and on the shelf or rack ( and you can immediately spot the Vintage Selection area in your store because the wine is stored in special racks ) , you can find something of the right character and desired sweetness with complete confidence . |