Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 2 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 3 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 4 | I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’ |
| 5 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 6 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 7 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 8 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 9 | AUGUSTA may indeed be august , though less snooty than might be imagined , but somebody there has a sense of humour and mischief at least . |
| 10 | Nobody else lifts a finger . |
| 11 | He may be right , but nobody else has a chance to provide any input into the decisions which affect everybody in F1 . ’ |
| 12 | Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn . |
| 13 | We have the club slides in our house so that you know really whoever takes over organizing the meeting should really have those and they 're all sorted out in order so it 's just a case of diving in the bag and looking for whatever you want , ever the I always try to bring some fish to look at , to the the scr to the screen erm some of the fish that were on show on the table for that particular sh er in erm table show because I think it shows interest and to learn more about the fish and it 's always nice when somebody else knows a lot more about the particular species than you do , and i is able to tell you quirks and fancies that they have . |
| 14 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 15 | However , one rarely sees a completion of those overs in the allotted time . |
| 16 | He has said that one only needs a dispensation from the mines inspectorate . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , one naturally expects a cattery to be more austere , ’ said Mark . |
| 18 | One thus gets a sequence of periods : 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 16 , … , ∞ . |
| 19 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 20 | Higher degrees are of two basic kinds — taught degrees ( for which one normally sits an examination ) and research degrees ( for which one normally submits a thesis ) — and of three basic levels . |
| 21 | No one ever reminds a member of Famlio of this coincidence . |
| 22 | When features are as obvious as this , one hardly needs a computer to detect them . |
| 23 | One also gets a selection of more unusual descriptions such as : ‘ stretched square ’ , ‘ an endless shape with corners ’ , ‘ it looks like this … ’ . |
| 24 | Of course all new recordings ‘ make a difference ’ in some degree ; this one really makes a difference . |
| 25 | One now has a print which is a reversed image of the drawing . |
| 26 | In writing a program , one often has a lot of freedom in the use of bound variables : not only in where they are declared , but also in whether to declare a new variable or re-use an old one . |
| 27 | one often finds a simplification , even elimination of social structure in the British sense , and an amplification of structure in Lévi-Strauss ' sense . |
| 28 | Even where there are two signs in use for the same verb , as with he bade and he bidded , one immediately recognizes a unity of meaning ( " past " ) . |
| 29 | If one simply uses a dictionary to determine the grammatical category of a word then there is little indication of which are the more likely syntactic categories . |
| 30 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |