Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be someone in the group older than 35 . |
| 2 | The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it . |
| 3 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 4 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 5 | The renationalisation of the water industry would cost £3.8 billion — and that is to say absolutely nothing of the £28 billion programme which is currently in place and which will run for the rest of the decade . |
| 6 | In England it has often been disputed whether there is any regional feeling and obviously there is nothing of the quasi-nationalism evident in Scotland and Wales . |
| 7 | In short , unless there is somebody behind the idea willing to take the risk of speaking up for it , the idea will evaporate and disappear . |
| 8 | Perhaps somebody in the EMI top management will rattle a few cages in their American office and get them to take note of Mr Lewis 's efforts for the British market . |
| 9 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 10 | We 've got somebody from the Oxford English er dictionary compilation er arena , with us today and I , I , I 'm almost tempted to ask Clare what wh what , what the definition of the word quality is actually . |
| 11 | So is there somebody on the site all the time |
| 12 | are nothing like the ones that he using ! |
| 13 | Well fortunately at the moment , the traffic on the M forty , well certainly yesterday was nothing like the M twenty five although it was reasonably busy and there 's every expectation it will increase over the coming weeks . |
| 14 | Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together . |
| 15 | The murmur of amusement that ran round the gathering made it obvious that none of the women present saw this as a hardship . |
| 16 | Montagu and Henderson were alone in dissenting , not only from the advice tendered but also from the implied assumption that if Asquith did not serve , none of the others present would either . |
| 17 | None of the ministers responsible for defence issues had spoken or been asked to speak by Pavlov . |
| 18 | AT&T 's hostile bid for NCR turned a lot friendlier when Ma Bell met the computer company 's asking price of $110 a share , though none of the $7.5 billion will be in cash . |
| 19 | When the sections were stained with elastase red and yellow ( a marker of elastic fibres in the smooth muscle of vascular tissue ) none of the EGF positive vessels were stained ( not shown ) . |
| 20 | He said none of the South African bombs had been tested . |
| 21 | It is strongly influenced by Greek and Etruscan artists and happily shows none of the degeneracy evident in some later Roman work ( PLATES 14 and 19 ) . |
| 22 | But although the literature on these questions is very large and continually increasing , it is very clear that none of the specialists concerned know any of the answers . |
| 23 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 24 | She lacked none of the courage typical of her Aries star sign . |
| 25 | One of the hypotheses I was considering was that during REM sleep ( and therefore during REM sleep dreams ) the entire memory system is accessible — none of the inhibitions present during wakeful life are active , and new memories can be fitted in to the appropriate cognitive structures during REM sleep . |
| 26 | When Nick Davies and Mike Brooke placed 10 g-sized model ‘ reed warbler ’ cuckoo 's eggs in reed warbler nests , they found that about half of them were ejected , whereas none of the model 3 g normal-sized ones were . |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the pillared structure that has been negotiated by our right hon. Friends is more likely to provide the sort of flexibility that the institutions will need , bearing in mind that Europe is standing , to some extent , on shifting sands and that none of the situations extant in the 1950s , at the birth of the Community , remains the same today ? |
| 28 | I wish to point out that such a definition applies to none of the people present in this forest today . |
| 29 | Bland argues : " There are two rules which apply — one for the South African sportsman , the other for the South African businessman . |
| 30 | I mainly use the package with my Brother 950i , to which I have a connecting cable , but I ca n't wait for Soft Byte to produce one for the Pfaff 6000 so that I can view the patterns on screen before knitting them . |