Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | pound fifty or something for like a shampoo and rinse I mean I 'd use it if I go in there . |
| 2 | So the maximum is nine that people can hold on to and the thing about nine of course is it splits up into three threes and that 's why I say some people will group a twelve number into four threes or something like that or three fours because they 're all well within this span of conception . |
| 3 | I would n't of minded , like I said to the bloke er if he , if I 'd been er a hundred pounds overdrawn or fifty quid overdrawn or something like that , I would n't of minded so much because I knew |
| 4 | There is little or nothing on the coloration of other everyday materials , such as leather and paper , nor is there any mention of non-substrate uses , such as in dye lasers or photovoltaic cells . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Chain and Florey were armed with apparatus which means little or nothing to the layman . |
| 6 | Africa , South America and Australia appear to have contributed little or nothing to the pedigree cat world . |
| 7 | In the south of England , Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey were affected to some extent — again much more in some parts than others — but the south-eastern corner of England owes little or nothing to the enclosure commissioners . |
| 8 | The general world outside knew little or nothing of them . |
| 9 | The minster at Beddingham seems to have lasted from 750 to 880 , but we know little or nothing of it , save its Abbot Plegheard named in a charter of 825 . |
| 10 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 11 | ‘ The best mothers , wives and managers of households ’ , he wrote , ‘ know little or nothing of sexual indulgence . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When a woman 's lover says little or nothing between the sheets , she will feel unloved , ’ says Barbara DeAngelis in her book How To Make Love All The Time . |
| 13 | ‘ By that remark , I take it you mean that I know little or nothing about industrial or trade matters ? ’ |
| 14 | Although these techniques developed by Sibbald et al ( 25 ) using a computer programme to determine the optimum allocation of land to agriculture and forestry make it possible to reach a more objective decision about the allocation of land to agriculture or forestry in an integrated scheme we , as yet , know little or nothing about the impact of agriculture or forest development on rural communities . |
| 15 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 16 | In Malta the Navy knew little or nothing about what was happening — probably because of radio silence in the British Fleet . |
| 17 | We are also aware that for the majority of women , a visit to a car showroom or Service Department can be a difficult and sometimes downright unpleasant experience due to indifferent attitudes by some Sales/Service staff who are under the misguided impression that because you are female you know little or nothing about the motor car . |
| 18 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 19 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 20 | Many recognised the ‘ Rameses ’ and ‘ Catherine ’ titles , but had seen neither show , and knew little or nothing about the imminent Turkish and Vatican exhibitions . |
| 21 | Minton 's friends were aware that Edie Lamont was an important figure in Minton 's life , but most knew little or nothing about her . |
| 22 | They come with minds as empty as their notebooks , knowing little or nothing about the subject . |
| 23 | She herself knew little or nothing about the organisation , and Donna wished she could have happened upon someone as knowledgeable on the subject as Mahoney had been . |
| 24 | It occurred to Edward that he knew little or nothing about rook behaviour . |
| 25 | Peru 's Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre , after meeting Trotsky , Chicherin , Lunacharskii and Frunze , testified that they knew ‘ little or nothing about conditions in our America ’ ( Haya de la Torre : 1961 pp. 158–9 ) . |
| 26 | Certainly , given that in the words of one critic , the implementation of Model B , for example , would result in ‘ a massive realignment of powers and institutions , raising profound questions of identity for the universities as well as the polytechnics ’ the Green Paper says little or nothing about a national policy for higher education . |
| 27 | Members frequently make the comment that they know little or nothing about the structure of the IBOA , the decision-making process — in short how the IBOA operates . |
| 28 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | All of his previous protagonists are shaped by conflicting forces with which they , supposedly , have little or nothing in common . |