Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course these benefits did nothing for the increasing number of lone mothers who were not widows but who were unmarried or , more commonly , divorced or separated . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 3 | When the adjective is one which qualifies sense , one would expect the altered phrase to have become quite useless — perhaps even to be designated as ungrammatical — precisely because such adjectives require exhibition of the properties involved in the noun in order to have their own effect , by combining with those properties ; so , if the noun or pronoun head of the phrase merely indicates entity-hood without mentioning any properties , there is nothing for the sense-qualifying adjective to work on . |
| 4 | The Labour party has learnt nothing about the deep-seated wish of the British people for local government structures that reflect what they feel about their local communities , and units of government that mean something to them and are not imposed on them . |
| 5 | Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East . |
| 6 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 7 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 8 | Moreover , an explicit claim to multiple points of view tells us nothing about the actual practice of using them . |
| 9 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 10 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 11 | Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK . |
| 12 | He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports . |
| 13 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 14 | And Clara , who could see no elegant way of enlarging this tantalizing scrap of information , had to make do with it — she dared not ask any further , for she knew nothing about the Labour Party , nor about the elder Ash 's political views , nor about A. J. Warbley himself , beyond the fact that his name was written up in black Gothic letters over his son 's shop door . |
| 15 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 16 | This may be true at the population genetic level , but it tells us absolutely nothing about the developmental complexity of the process itself . |
| 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 | The landowner , who now lives in Wales , knew nothing about the planned event . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 21 | She knew nothing about the particular thing . |
| 22 | She saw Naylor 's sharp glance go over her , but , while she quickly lowered her glance , she could do nothing about the unexpected riot of colour that flooded her face . |
| 23 | If that dreadful mid-Atlantic ‘ celebrity ’ who rummages through other people 's houses in the appalling ‘ Through the Keyhole ’ TV programme delved through the house of Australia rugby , he would find any amount of shimmering silverware — the World Cup itself , the Bledisloe Cup , and so on — but the contents would tell you nothing about the true greatness of the inhabitants . |
| 24 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 25 | ‘ I know nothing about the domestic side of life — and I do n't intend to start getting involved with it now . ’ |
| 26 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 27 | ‘ Nothing about the local connection yet but I 've had a word with the boys at Penzance . |
| 28 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 29 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 30 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |