Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises :
2 One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner .
3 However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases .
4 A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning .
5 The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot .
6 So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them .
7 For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state .
8 He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority .
9 Chivers , providing dynamic leadership as Derry get ready for their most important match since last year 's Ulster decider , is adamant that the side can play much , much better than they did in the McKenna climax .
10 He was now part of a coalition with people who had held cabinet office in Stormont and , more than that , his party had polled better than one led by an ex-Minister .
11 It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on .
12 It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on .
13 For that flicker of uncertainty , I begin to like her again , better than I have since the days of the Great Succubus Strike .
14 Better than I have in a long time . ’
15 But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’
16 He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist .
17 Better than you did for the entire evening . ’
18 People did n't move much once they got to a road like this one .
19 Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove .
20 so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left
21 Why is n't it shouted from the start so that everybody knows from the start who you are ?
22 To make sure that we 're able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people do n't have any er doubts as to what you actually mean .
23 Later decades have seen other organizations use the term so that we speak in the twentieth century about the trade union ‘ movement ’ or the ‘ peace movement ’ ; we seldom think to describe the Conservative Party , the Confederation of British Industry or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as ‘ movements ’ .
24 This introduces a factor 2 – so that which reduces to the previous result for the random array .
25 Hostel staff , poorly paid and untrained , were under pressure from the subcommittee , the school and the local community , so that they erred on the side of caution in everything , thus frustrating the pupils .
26 But she stuck her feet out sideways so that they came against the wall of the hearth .
27 I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall .
28 The land is prepared in spring and early summer , and vines are planted in October so that they benefit from the winter rainfall and are well established by the spring .
29 ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem .
30 The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning .
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