Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 2 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 3 | Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ . |
| 4 | For its weight , there is really nothing wrong with the mechanical properties of wood and the weight of wooden structures is generally at least comparable to that of metal ones . |
| 5 | If you can find nothing wrong with the external pickup wiring and associated circuitry , the chances are that a wire has broken inside one of the coils and will require rewinding . |
| 6 | I only hope there 's nothing wrong with the poor fellow . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the definitive Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , added : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 8 | Mr Green , 55 , author of the Grand National chronicle , A Race Apart , said : ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the present starting system so long as it is operated properly . |
| 9 | It is being suggested , is it , that God saw nothing wrong with the past situation in which only men could be ordained ? |
| 10 | ‘ We need to get player representation involved when such changes are in the air because , frankly , I saw nothing wrong with the old laws — just the way some countries played them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's nothing wrong with the old ways . ’ |
| 12 | The phrases are fine-sounding , and there is certainly nothing wrong with the three Rs . |
| 13 | The kairos approach makes God both immoral ( if God saw nothing wrong with the previous sexism of the church 's stance ) and fickle . |
| 14 | There was nothing wrong with the heavy net curtains of Healy 's Hotel . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there was absolutely nothing wrong with the older woman 's hearing . |
| 16 | There was nothing wrong with the noble creed they were taught-it was just that it played no part in the actual operation of the military dictatorship . |
| 17 | In Berlin , Bismarck let it be known that he saw nothing wrong with the proposed solution , though he backed away from too openly supporting it in the face of a general outcry from the other European courts . |
| 18 | I find the remark significant for the assumption which is made that there was nothing harmful about the previous view of the relation between men and women ; indeed the previous view may have accorded with the divine will and our present outlook not . |
| 19 | It needs a new person to take it into the future , someone free of the old , deeply ingrained prejudices and affiliations . |
| 20 | Foreign bodies have already appeared on the Saatchi share register and despite its problems the group would clearly be a juicy prize for someone such as the fast-expanding French . |
| 21 | Again , if there is to be a specific charge on shares in subsidiary companies ( which may be a necessary precaution ) trustees are needed in order that someone independent of the holding company shall be able to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares . |
| 22 | … an experienced teacher , someone aware of the educational possibilities and problems offered by the use of multi-media materials … a person enthusiastic to extend the range of learning methods employed in schools and keenly interested in educational technology . |
| 23 | He argued , of course — said that there was nothing serious between the two of you and you knew that . |
| 24 | But there was nothing quaint about the masculine form that adorned it . |
| 25 | Gas hotplates on ordinary cookers have hardly changed in decades but there is nothing ordinary about the new Discovery . |
| 26 | One of the odd features when you first arrive in the area is that there is no advance warning of what 's to come — nothing visible of the Grand Canyon until you are right on the edge . |
| 27 | In this way nothing visible in the archaeological record constitutes the other half of the exchange ; such consumables as animals and crops fall into the same category . |
| 28 | Nothing much of the original French strategy survived , including much that was useful . |
| 29 | Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet … |
| 30 | On form there 's nothing much between the two . |