Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I knew from nothing about affairs of the heart or the mortgage , I played a short season at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 2 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 3 | So it went on for two long hours during which the thousands present learned nothing about Fascism except the bravery and pertinacity of its young adherents in dealing with this very perilous situation . " |
| 4 | I recently moved into a house of my own , knowing nothing about d-i-y at the time . |
| 5 | In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor . |
| 6 | The content validity of individual items may be determined by inspection by someone with expertise in the area of language assessment . |
| 7 | ‘ Tuberculosis is contracted through prolonged contact with someone with symptoms of the disease . |
| 8 | However , lines of inquiry would include , he said , someone with grievance against the oil industry and people at the ‘ nutty ’ end of the independence movement . |
| 9 | They could be either recorded from the big screen by a cinema goer or illegally reproduced by someone with access to the film.Intv . |
| 10 | He thought about that : perhaps not actually a householder , just someone with access to the two houses in Mouncy Street , his own house and the one next door . |
| 11 | Agrippa , Angus , his hired assassins , or someone under orders from the arch murderer at Royston . ’ |
| 12 | Someone in possession with the consent of them both can be said to be in possession ‘ with consent of the owner . ’ |
| 13 | You 're gon na want to support someone in groups with the changes coming on board , know what I mean ? |
| 14 | If they had left someone in charge of the horses nothing could be done , but he counted on their having kept together . |
| 15 | Someone in charge of the scheme will need to establish contact with both parties to assess how things are working out . |
| 16 | Institutions which do produce more complex programmes as a regular feature of their work need to have someone in charge of the operation to ensure that proper planning is done . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a bit noisy , ’ said someone from Lotus as the booming voices from Microsoft and Borland reverberated around the hall . |
| 18 | Although his interest is welcomed , it does seem somewhat inappropriate for someone on holiday from the other side of the world , without any apparent local knowledge , making brief comments in what is a major debate within the Board 's area , the outcome of which could seriously affect many patients and their families for many years . |
| 19 | If on the other hand you are someone at home in the complex plane then you may be able to recognise that the argument of a complex number will provide the sort of phase relationships that we hinted at when we mentioned circularly polarised light . |
| 20 | I only hope that if my operation leaves me suffering as they did , there will be someone at hand with the strength of character and compassion of Dr Cox to help me. — |
| 21 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 22 | It was odd that there should be nothing of Reni in the features of either child . |
| 23 | The room was tidy enough , after a fashion , but there was nothing of value on the mantelpiece and not one stick of furniture that would n't have been better employed on a bonfire . |
| 24 | I know that many of you feel you 've had almost nothing of value from the current tutorials and er erm which is rather unfortunate . |
| 25 | " There 's nothing of value in the Chinese room — it 's only junk my great-uncle brought back on his travels — tourist stuff . |
| 26 | Lastly , there seems to be growing general acceptance that improvements in the quality of service to clients , to say nothing of reductions in the cost of indemnity insurance , require the Law Society to lay down standards of practice , practice management and client service for the profession . |
| 27 | There is a myth that Ramsay painted nothing of consequence after the 1760s , that his output was limited to replicas . |
| 28 | It contains nothing of interest to the binocular observer . |
| 29 | Sextans contains nothing of interest to the binocular observer . |
| 30 | There was plenty of land around the site which would allow easy expansion when that became necessary ; , |