Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Muzak played ‘ Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head ’ and they talked about Italy and then about nothing very much . |
| 2 | His international career was killed off by Andy Roxburgh after one too many fall-outs with the Scotland chief and his Ibrox spell was tarnished when a pre-season trip was cut short after a clash with former manager Graeme Souness . |
| 3 | In contrast to a few years ago when one would rarely hear any teaching on the Holy Spirit , it seems that some people can speak of nothing else these days . |
| 4 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 5 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 6 | Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ . |
| 7 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 8 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |
| 9 | He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security . |
| 10 | We apologise for having used old fashioned terminology in misnaming Enterococcus faecalis as Streptococcus faecalis , but the apparent redesignation of the organism as Gram negative was not intentional and arose because of the eradication of one too many ‘ organisms ’ from the text , which should read : ‘ Important indications for this category include infections due to Gram negative organisms ; organisms , such as Enterococcus faecalis , causing infective endocarditis ; osteomyelitis ; and infections of vascular grafts . ’ |
| 11 | So it 's H C L and C L's got a valency of one so that 's nicely balanced one C L with one H plus . |
| 12 | The language-related courses consisted of one full-time each in Universities and Polytechnics , and three in Colleges : four part-time in Universities , two in Colleges and one in a Polytechnic . |
| 13 | They could hardly have been more different from the swaggering louts of the Hotel Olympik who would chatter among themselves for ten minutes and then saunter towards one as much out of boredom as anything else . |
| 14 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 15 | The vocabulary of the debates reflects this , for the contrast is drawn between aggression and non-aggression , violence and non-violence ; it is the absence of conflict , not the presence of something else that is noted . |
| 16 | Good girl think of something else that 's to go in this side . |
| 17 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 18 | I ca n't think of anything else that would have killed the Oscar , unless he suffered damage during the transfer and dies of internal injuries — it can happen . |
| 19 | According to the behaviourists , psychologists have no need to postulate the existence of the mind or of anything else that is not observable . |
| 20 | Erm , yeah , sh I know you 'll be thinking about sending her to prison today but if you could think of anything else that erm , I do n't know , a suspended sentence or something like that , then obviously she 'd , she 'd be really grateful for that , would n't you , Mrs , yeah erm , er , Mrs White is there anything else you want me to say ? |
| 21 | The reason why trade has risen , one reason is because , erm , transport costs have declined in real terms and secondly w , why can you think of anything else that may have increased trade in manufac manufactured goods ? |
| 22 | Swimming , aerobics , ice- skating , but very little of anything else these days . |
| 23 | Sadly ‘ Stargazer ’ does n't remind me of anything very much at all . |
| 24 | Quite why she did n't like it , she was n't sure , but then , she was n't sure of anything very much where Leo was concerned . |
| 25 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 26 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 27 | The entire organisation , with its membership of eccentric senior officers and local groups of para-military ladies on the look-out for the Red Menace , seems like nothing so much as raw material for a comic novel of post-war manners . |
| 28 | It was for this reason that the halls were never radical or seditious and that the songs , like everything else that was on offer , were , as Colin MacInnes suggested , ‘ too inhibited emotionally , too limited intellectually , too commercial in their intentions ’ . |
| 29 | If it had n't been for the war , they 'd have retired him , but it was like everything else these days , all hands to the pumps . |
| 30 | I was hoping for something even more er |