Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World Peace is a most important , er item affecting everyone in the world ; Gorbachov has been one of the foremost politicians , international politicians to , to make a change in , in , er in the world climate , so far as peace is concerned , and therefore that will certainly help him solve his bread and butter problems in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | The yanks are castigated for their heartless reaction to the deaths of civilians in Baghdad ( ‘ the manner of the American military 's response betrays something about its values , ’ opined Britain 's Independent on Sunday ) and mocked for the fear of terrorism that has kept them away from Europe — thus cruelly hurting Europe 's tourist business . |
| 3 | Tuesday 's afternoon show one till five with Jenny . |
| 4 | Emerson 's story sent everybody into a tailspin [ he says ] , including Mary-Claude 's family in Lebanon . |
| 5 | ‘ Ted 's camp left nothing to chance , ’ he recalls . |
| 6 | But she could do nothing , while Sylvie 's presence drew everyone like a charm . |
| 7 | Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence . |
| 8 | The two machines , one for Britain and one for France , were handed over and it was to be Bertrand 's responsibility to transport one to Paris and so on to London in the French diplomatic bag . |
| 9 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 10 | Scotland 's determination to take something from the night was shown in the 64th minute , too , when a defender , Wright , was replaced by a forward , his Aberdeen team-mate , Scott Booth . |
| 11 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | But Braque 's work contains none of the expressionistic violence of Picasso 's . |
| 13 | Tonson 's title-page said nothing of the sort ; only that the word-book offered for sale in 1693 was a new improved version . |
| 14 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |
| 15 | Blame it on the government 's refusal to do anything about global warming . |
| 16 | He asked if the woman 's name meant anything to her . |
| 17 | But why did n't Elaine 's name mean anything to her ? |
| 18 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 19 | The professor 's wife said something about how difficult and expensive it was to get a good cleaning woman , and the professor responded uneasily , insensitively , aware that he was not getting the respect he was used to in his Senior Common Room . |
| 20 | The average over-weight person tends to imagine the slim person 's day to go something like this . |
| 21 | Even , however , if it was rightly decided , it is remote from the present issue , since it proceeded on the basis that the giving of surety for a defendant 's bail created something in the nature of a civil debt . |
| 22 | Wycliffe 's manner betrayed nothing of his sharpened interest . |
| 23 | But that last half-mile is the one that counts and of the front half-dozen , only Party Politics , Romany King and the Irish-trained Laura 's Beau had anything in reserve . |
| 24 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative Government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick , ’ said Coun Williams . |
| 25 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And it 's a bit rich after the failure of the Conservative government and this town 's MP to do anything for the economy in this town it looks like an election gimmick . ’ |
| 27 | Whites need to recognise that blacks can not hope to prosper in any numbers while they are confined to ghettos of crime , poverty and lousy schools , and that it is society 's duty to do something about it . |
| 28 | The children 's version says nothing about Joseph 's views on his wife 's mysterious pregnancy . |
| 29 | Even though things do not go according to plan , Elmer 's idea offers lots of amusing possibilities . |
| 30 | Paneth and Peters knew about palladium 's ability to absorb lots of hydrogen and they wondered whether packing so much of it in between the palladium atoms might increase the chance of the hydrogen atoms bumping into one another , thereby fusing and producing helium . |