Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone understands the common language of money .
2 Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court .
3 Nothing illustrates the blatant inequalities in society better than the fact that Durham County Council is having to close several old people 's homes .
4 Is it to be given to ensure that everyone has the correct drawing or to save time ?
5 Although everyone has the innate capacity to love and to enjoy another 's happiness as well as their own , and to get themselves loved and their happiness enjoyed by others , not everyone can risk the experience in adult life .
6 EVERYONE LOVES THE FRIENDLY FAX — DESPITE HAVING COMPLEX INNARDS IT 'S EASY TO USE .
7 No-one has the complete freedom to do anything in our modern , regimented society .
8 It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place .
9 Someone has the missing papers .
10 If someone holds the common belief that we only grow through pain and suffering , for example , then they are likely to create traumatic experiences at a fairly steady pace .
11 When someone uses the conventional cues and triggers of emotion in this way , all they end up communicating is the desire to cue an acquired reflex .
12 When someone hears the national team news , could they e-mail me or mail the list , as r.s.s is increasingly poor at giving information like this .
13 Someone opens the front door .
14 They then mime it to the group until someone guesses the right answer , and then the next person comes up until one team reaches the end of the list .
15 If someone puts the Black Spot on Zeneca , nothing is going to make the price perk up in the short term .
16 I think everyone says the three-day week produced some remarkable results and I think that side of things continues to be run very well indeed .
17 Nobody doubts the honest endeavour on the field , but will that be undermined by off-field shenanigans ?
18 Nobody wants the other sort .
19 Nobody remembers the old people here . ’
20 successful in doing these schemes and because resources on we are hard pressed , resources on the ground are thin then when people ring up with these schemes that we get it off the ground they meet this negative sort of answer when they ring in , that 's the only sort of er liaison with themselves and the police and they 're met with that , and their reaction then is down the pub tell their mates do n't ring in cos its a reaction , and that 's the trouble with us being , as it were too successful before , better to be less successful , but we 'd have more staff at the centre like Lincolnshire etc to actually get the difference from when somebody does the odd person does ring in they get a response to it
21 ( Nobody knows the exact date , which is probably just as well : to categorize a house like this can take away some of its romance . )
22 Nobody knows the true measure of that inflation , but in the cities it is something in the region of 15–20% a year , and rising .
23 Nothing darkens the directional pate better than John being told by production what he can not have .
24 Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from .
25 VISITORS to the Disney theme parks near Orlando , Florida , have a wealth of new-build state-of-the-art hotels to choose from , but none reaches the gaudy heights of the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel .
26 None concedes the massive change of principle that such an extension would require .
27 But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota , none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership .
28 Just to make sure no-one gets the wrong idea , the loco carries an ‘ L ’ plate headboard to distinguish it from other trains !
29 Nothing gets the old testosterone surging like a head-to-head contest .
30 One receives the strong impression that Tolkien would have continued to write his gnominsh grammars , his elvish etymologies , his histories of mythological lost ages , his wanted to read them or not .
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