Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fairly easy to make the switch from he to something like s/he or him/her in English because the change affects these items only . |
| 2 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 3 | For that reason , high-tech firms often pay little or nothing in dividends , in America and Britain as well as Japan . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 6 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway . |
| 12 | Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning . |
| 13 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots . |
| 16 | must insure such person , persons or classes of persons as may be specified in the policy in respect of any liability which may be incurred by him or them in respect of the death of or bodily injury to any person caused by , or arising out of , the use of the vehicle on a road in Great Britain ; and |
| 17 | must insure him or them in respect of any liability which may be incurred by him or them m respect of the use of the vehicle and of any trailer , whether or not coupled , in the territory other than Great Britain and Gibraltar of each of the member states of the Communities according to the law on compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of vehicles of the state where the liability may be incurred ; and |
| 18 | must also insure him or them in respect of any liability which may be incurred by him or them under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to payment for emergency treatment . |
| 19 | If you do n't fancy knitting the entire motifs in lurex , then try knitting it or them in a plain colour and combine a fine lurex thread with the background colour . |
| 20 | Or me in this unusual situation . |
| 21 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's something or someone in that damn barn . |
| 23 | This booklet is written for secondary school children and young people who want to understand something about AIDS or who know someone with AIDS — possibly a friend at school or someone in their close family . |
| 24 | She becomes one with her instrument , lifting her head occasionally to smile at one or all of the band , or someone in the audience , but there 's a flow to the music that in my experience , is almost without parallel . |
| 25 | The ‘ female ’ could be a female impersonator , or someone in disguise , or an actor on the way to a theatre ; the ‘ angry ’ or ‘ excited ’ person could be deaf , or someone calling out to a friend some distance away . |
| 26 | So how do you cope if you , or someone in your family , suddenly becomes part of that grim total ? |
| 27 | If you 're visiting the hospital or someone in hospital |
| 28 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
| 29 | Around 4.5 million people have a problem with their own drinking or someone in their family . |
| 30 | Or somebody in the yard he was paying . |