Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all or nothing on this one ! |
| 2 | If you have chosen bread to make up sandwiches , use only the thinnest scrape of fat ( preferably a polyunsaturated margarine or nothing at all ) . |
| 3 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 4 | The best time to do this is first thing in the morning , after going to the bathroom , wearing your night clothes or nothing at all , but keep it the same every day . |
| 5 | ‘ Now it 's a Brahmin , or nothing at all — which would be simpler . ’ |
| 6 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 7 | Did it mean something , or nothing at all ? |
| 8 | Or nothing at all ? |
| 9 | It 's either all or nothing at all down there . |
| 10 | From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length . |
| 11 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
| 12 | They saw little or nothing of each other . |
| 13 | ‘ The best mothers , wives and managers of households ’ , he wrote , ‘ know little or nothing of sexual indulgence . ’ |
| 14 | The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force . |
| 15 | ‘ By that remark , I take it you mean that I know little or nothing about industrial or trade matters ? ’ |
| 16 | Instead of maintaining the general domain of a text topic and preserving partial results to form hypotheses about new words and meanings , most natural language programs preserve little or nothing from one sentence to the next . |
| 17 | There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots . |
| 18 | He compares the suggested scenario with a group of people who have boxes ; in each box there is something ( or nothing in some , perhaps ) and each calls what is in his box his ‘ beetle ’ . |
| 19 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 20 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |
| 21 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 22 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 23 | This , however , is not helpful , for ‘ chose in action ’ is a notoriously vague term used to describe a mass of interests which have little or nothing in common except that they confer no right to possession of a physical thing , and which range from purely personal rights under a contract to patents , copyrights and trade marks . |
| 24 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 25 | They ai n't got no lights on or nothing like that , but they 're real nice all the same . |
| 26 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 27 | But you would n't have er you would n't have easy chairs or nothing like that . |
| 28 | Can you not stick a band on pretty soon or nothing like that ? |
| 29 | There was no dole or nothing like this they had . |
| 30 | Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case . |