Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 2 | Inside is a long , uncarpeted prison-like corridor with bedrooms on either side of it , a television lounge which is furnished in the drabbest possible manner and a recreation room which contains nothing but a few wooden chairs and tables . |
| 3 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 4 | Again , there will be cases in which an event occurs which affects everyone in a given vacancy — recruitment is held , or the position is filled . |
| 5 | He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks . |
| 6 | I want to be a part of the sport , one sport which encompasses everyone from a small kid who wants to have a go at throwing the javelin because he has seen Steve Backley on television , through to the 60-year-old recreational runner . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Television is fast-moving and relies on much non-verbal communication , such as a quick glance between the characters , which means nothing to a young child , ’ says Dr Sheppard . |
| 8 | The LEA scheme concerned is an unusual one in that it combines school self-evaluation with an inspection which provides something of an external evaluation of the exercise . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody knows anything about the Old Ones , not even the Time Lords . |
| 10 | Its weakest point is the character of Pat — while the two men are realistically observed , Pat ( who has none of the shrewd toughness of her profession ) , is a fluff-headed mechanical doll who inexplicably switches from initial dislike of Sonny to a lovestruck Shirley Valentine . |
| 11 | The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia . |
| 12 | She has plenty of the proper sort . ’ |
| 13 | Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always . |
| 14 | My mum says he can kip on her sofa because she likes anyone with a Manc accent . |
| 15 | If Eleanor Darcy can manage a private room in a prison , perhaps she manages one in the local pub as well ? |
| 16 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 17 | The Economist described the situation vividly : ‘ Whenever one hears somebody on the French radio vituperating against ‘ adventurers ’ one can be sure that M. Cohn-Bendit or some other leftist student is the target . |
| 18 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |
| 19 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 20 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 21 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 22 | The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside . |
| 23 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 24 | New Zealand has the playing infrastructure but it has nothing like a big enough commercial base . |
| 25 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 26 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 27 | If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case . |
| 28 | If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third . |
| 29 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 30 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |