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

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1 Climbing up to the right and beyond Cow Dub , I followed the beck , dry where it had drained away through the limestone but flowing where the bands of sandstone outcropped , until on the open fell the limestone gave way to glacial moraine and the beck gurgled noisily back down towards Cow Dub .
2 ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment .
3 And you think that 's not just a sort of relatively recent phenomenon in the sense of you know , the sort of mid nineteen thirties or you think it 's always been there ?
4 I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone .
5 And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much .
6 I do rather resent it when there are other council committees , there 's Town Hall Strategy Working Party in the afternoon , now if we 're going to be sure that we can all get to this without conflict with other committees , erm I had to be there on behalf of the Lord Mayor because she had duties , erm and I was very sorry not to be able to come , because I have dealt , visited many occupational , I wanted to visit the officers , and you know , it is n't always possible where you have a conflict of interests .
7 Dey hav fe get it right or dey get verbal reaction .
8 The director wants you to do it a certain way , and either you do n't feel that he 's right or you feel that he 's right but he 's forcing you to be a square peg in a round hole .
9 And you know what I wanted , some Fairly liquid or they 've got ta go up and get it .
10 Well , perhaps I wo n't light the fire until half past eleven or something to try and make it go that bit further .
11 It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was .
12 A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ .
13 The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it .
14 But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions .
15 In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways .
16 It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life .
17 But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity .
18 In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals .
19 First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy .
20 Any full study of ‘ unfair competition ’ would have to take account of the legislation protecting intangible business property like trade marks and patents , and of the statutory controls over restrictive trading agreements and monopolies , which have little or nothing to do with anything resembling the law of tort .
21 Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy .
22 More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay .
23 A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do .
24 Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy .
25 You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony .
26 A rather closer look at the diary of military events easily conveys the impression of times of intense activity , followed by periods when little or nothing seemed to occur .
27 It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama .
28 It did little or nothing to remove de facto segregation in certain institutions , and apparently made no impact on imbalances in the distribution of wealth in South Africa .
29 Much school education has done little or nothing to try to correct these misunderstandings .
30 All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation .
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