Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] [coord] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Sommers feels that Regina has nothing to lose and a great deal to gain if she follows his advice re support for her floating kidney ’ ) . |
| 2 | Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track . |
| 3 | Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen . |
| 4 | When Lee turned out of the door and looked down to where the battered bird would have landed there was nothing to see but the same old Z-shaped crack in the hard , grey pavingstone and a streak of blood . |
| 5 | In terms of relieving over-crowding and dealing with the decay of older prisons , new and refurbished buildings clearly have something to offer but the sheer scale and cost of the proposals ( an average capital cost per place of £69,000 and thereafter £13,000 per prisoner per year to run ) has drawn much critical comment . |
| 6 | He is a man with something to say and an immense intellect with which to say it . |
| 7 | But even to themselves they pretended that all was well , for the food was good , they were protected , they had nothing to fear but the one fear ; and that struck here and there , never enough at a time to drive them away . |