Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had nothing to lose by ostentatious atonement for past sins ; and St Eadwold , whose relics Cerne claimed to possess , was the brother of Edmund of East Anglia . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've got nothing to hide from each other . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You say you are not lost , yet it seems unusual for someone to come across this spot . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm looking for someone to look after nine month old for about two/three days per week . |
| 5 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 6 | I had plenty to do between normal routine work at Felixstowe and preparation connected with taking over Searcher . |
| 7 | Er , as you can imagine if you try and tell somebody to park in one place that somebody else has parked already , you could end up with some some misunderstanding , so there is erm a generous amount of parking to bring the total parking to the whole area up to the level that was erm put forward in the first master plan . |
| 8 | So all in all there 's plenty to read in this month 's Outdoor Action , with plenty of walking routes , a test on dome tents , our comprehensive rucksack gear guide and plenty of other outdoor pursuits . |
| 9 | I certainly have plenty to learn on that subject . |
| 10 | Mrs Hughes always had plenty to say about modern life and one pet grumble was the way grammar standards had declined since she stopped teaching the subject more than 50 years ago . |
| 11 | A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar ; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars ; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine . |
| 12 | The reason why I continue to believe that Heseltine 's best chance of getting the Tory leadership lies in the aftermath of an election defeat has nothing to do with inside knowledge . |
| 13 | Nothing to do with official embassy business . ’ |
| 14 | Given that , whatever the justification for giving him such power may be , it has nothing to do with encouraging blackmail , such action frustrates the purpose of validating the consent and is to be discouraged because of its undesirable consequences . |
| 15 | These factors , while nothing to do with technical tax rules , must nevertheless figure clearly in any individual 's or company 's considerations when weighing up whether or not haven-based tax planning is really appropriate . |
| 16 | But they had nothing to do with cheap mullet . |
| 17 | [ T ] his government 's challenge to freedom has nothing to do with totalitarian despotism . |
| 18 | When Svidrigailov and Porfiry , who never meet — bold again — and who have nothing to do with each other , both tell Raskolnikov that a man needs air , my business is to try and suggest how it is that Dostoevsky 's reader finds himself in immediate dual touch with a Petersburg july day and a universal truth . |
| 19 | Humour and sex have nothing to do with each other |
| 20 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 21 | They 've had nothing to do with each other for damn near twenty years . |
| 22 | It 's really sexist , lumping us together with bands who really have nothing to do with each other , and nothing to do with us . |
| 23 | Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel — make like a tree and leave it . |
| 24 | However , their most alarming quantitative forecast , of 4.5 million unemployed in Britain by 1990 , came from forecasts made by the Cambridge Economic Policy Group and was based on economic factors which had nothing to do with new technology . |
| 25 | A majority of economists would , therefore , argue that the present high level of unemployment has nothing to do with new technology . |
| 26 | When Chamberlain returned from his post-war African tour to a hero 's welcome in March 1903 , he found to his hand a request from the Dominions themselves which , though it had nothing to do with Imperial unity , and indeed was rather symptomatic of growing independence , he seized upon and elevated into the first step towards ‘ consolidation of the Empire ’ . |
| 27 | Sombro was presenting a common behaviour problem for male dogs , and it was nothing to do with high-strung pedigree breeding , failure to live up to expectations of unreasonable or over-demanding owners , or lack of freedom or space . |
| 28 | Its placement has , of course , nothing to do with increasing barge loads as has been claimed , the aqueduct load remaining constant while carrying water regardless of boats passing over , but the new aqueduct is wider , reducing the potential for collision damage . |
| 29 | Good poetry has nothing to do with political correctness . |
| 30 | Indeed , his insistence that punishments should only reflect the harm done to society and have nothing to do with subjective intent would seem to imply that the accident-prone should be treated the same as those who cause harm by design ! |