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

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 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 .
35 There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots .
36 Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all .
37 Neither of these patterns of politics was really pulled into view by pluralism , because that perspective could not cope with too much raucous political activity — still less with too little or none at all .
38 Say we could do ten each or something like that .
39 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you .
40 Er outstanding achievement award er dreamt up title say er and then runner up to that or something like that or something like that , yeah ?
41 Er outstanding achievement award er dreamt up title say er and then runner up to that or something like that or something like that , yeah ?
42 No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that .
43 Anyway , she 's got the hots for this feller down there that she used to go out with he 's about forty eight or something like that but She pref , preferred
44 Quite tall about five foot eight or something like that .
45 That is , people writing in the eighteenth century that th you know um it was appropriate for kids to be introduced to sex when they were around y'know sort of seven or eight or something in some cases .
46 We did have lines , hundred lines , I must do not do this or something like that which was very negative really .
47 There is no sign at all of this or anything like it happening .
48 And , without being narrow-minded or anything like that , I must say that lipstick does n't suit you . ’
49 Did , did , did your hours of work get shorter or anything like that ?
50 The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy .
51 So I had to work with him till I was about twenty or twenty-one or something like that , you know .
52 int he village you know , except maybe at at the Social or something like that , said , Come on up and sing and then I forget my words and that 's me .
53 Oxidised LDL may also be procoagulant since it has been described as stimulating endothelial tissue factor activity and inhibiting activation of protein C. Despite these tremendous advances , the authors wisely remind us that many patients with coronary disease have few or none of the known risk factors .
54 The activity involved may be heavy or light or something with a specialised technique .
55 In the simplest case an instruction tests for all , some or none of the bits being set to one .
56 An eighteen year old or something like that eighteen seventeen eighteen nineteen year old something like that who would like you know a fiver or tenner .
57 Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now .
58 I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp .
59 ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that .
60 ‘ It is almost axiomatic in businesses like this that nothing of value is ever kept in the safe . ’
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