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Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	He was too deeply into the part to see anything outside the stage .
2	Immediately beyond the church and school the road has a less steep section , and soon passes a small cheese dairy where , depending on circumstances of the season , there may be an opportunity to see something of the work that is typical of this type of country .
3	It seems a shame to waste the opportunity to see something of the country . ’
4	Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns .
5	The down-side is that the critic 's representation of the text has none of the authority that objectivity would lend to the analysis .
6	This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature .
7	The unitary , all embracing , concept of man which is postulated by such expressions as " Anthropology is the science of man " is really a by-product of the post-Cartesian attempt to objectify everything in the world , to view human relationships as commodities , to see everything as quantifiable and predictable and governed by simple laws of cause and effect .
8	Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government .
9	But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining .
10	But the stroke made none of the impact she was expecting .
11	Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness .
12	One leading UFF figure in the area last week referred to a gun attack on a house in Jamaica Street in the Ardoyne area on St. Patrick 's night and said it was the intention to kill anyone in the house .
13	‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ?
14	They remain different ways , because the institutions of natural science involve the practice of giving causal explanations with the aid of models and statistics , whereas those of religion involve nothing of the sort .
15	According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions .
16	It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way .
17	Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt .
18	British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel .
19	At first glance the lumps of rock reveal nothing of the primitive technology which heralded the dawn of culture .
20	For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours .
21	Eye pigments occurring in the ommatidial cells of some insects may be of special interest since studies of their metabolism reveal something of the mode of action of genes controlling eye colour .
22	Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion .
23	Finally , the rule says nothing about the order in which hypotheses are to be pursued .
24	The cars parked one behind the other in a row on the road that crossed the green from the Hall to the church .
25	It was suggested that , because the third parties received nothing under the transaction , it would be unworkable to make an order requiring them to restore ‘ the parties ’ ( that is the contravener and the investor ) to the status quo ante .
26	These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf.
27	In a nationwide poll conducted in the second week after the massacre , the question was asked : ‘ Some people believe that this tragedy says something about the problem of male violence towards women .
28	Do you think that this tragedy says anything about the problem of male violence towards women ? ’
29	Ashworth 's analysis uses interesting concepts drawn from sociology and psychology but his data cover everything from the official histories of the war , including divisional and battalion histories , right across to the diaries of ordinary soldiers , some of which were based on notes taken during the war but written up years later .
30	fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ;