Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it .
32 Despite its general popularity amongst teachers in schools where the Solihull booklet had been used , the evidence from the survey is that little or nothing changed in consequence .
33 Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers .
34 But even for those who had little or nothing to hide , their sensitivity to the research led , in a minority of cases , to a reluctance to engage in conversation , the resort to silence being something which Westley noted in his research in the United States ( 1970 , p. viii ) .
35 By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level .
36 Where , unless somebody 's fallen asleep or something has bored somebody to death .
37 Tried projecting negative of Bride from holograph enlarger , he wrote , but image thin and weak where I want it strong ( though indeterminate ) .
38 ‘ In future it will run on Thursdays and it 's designed for people who are a bit shy or who want to protect their anonymity . ’
39 The Vendor is not in relation to the Business a party to any agreement , practice or arrangement which contravenes or is subject to registration under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Resale Prices Act 1976 or the Competition Act 1980 or which contravenes the provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or which would or might either result in a reference to a ‘ consumer trade practice ’ within the meaning of Section 13 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or to the Consumer Protection Advisory Committee under Part II of that Act or contravene any of the provisions of Articles 85 or 86 of the Treaty of Rome or any other anti-trust or consumer protection legislation .
40 you know solid or there 's been an accident it tells you there 's an accident at , at this point
41 Perhaps you 're exhausted where you 've had a gear problem .
42 We 'll put it right where we think it matters , on the training field and we 'll keep playing with the philosophy of working , training and competing . ’
43 Got him right where you want him , have n't you ?
44 When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby .
45 I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating .
46 ‘ Is n't that where we start ? ’
47 ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ?
48 ‘ Is that where he hangs out , then ? ’
49 Is that where it came from ? ’
50 ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’
51 ‘ Is that where you 've been ?
52 ‘ Is n't that where you wanted to go today ? ’
53 Is that where you want to go ? ’
54 That where I live friend , ’ I told him .
55 Was that where she felt ‘ hemmed in ’ ?
56 This was developed very highly in the Hollywood movies of the Thirties where they attempted to put ‘ colour ’ into the pictures in terms of light and shade .
57 ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap .
58 If they just make it totally private where everybody has to pay
59 Either that or they go through to Salzburg and then come off the motorway there .
60 Either that or they 've been proved well
  Previous page   Next page