Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 2 | There was nothing vulgar about these hands , not like his wife 's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel . |
| 3 | But there was nothing strange about that . |
| 4 | And there was nothing strange about that , because he had always waved . |
| 5 | Nothing strange about that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There 's nothing strange about that , ’ Rory shot back . |
| 7 | In principle , there is nothing strange in this . |
| 8 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 9 | There is nothing covert about this operation . |
| 10 | For example , the Department of Health and Social Services is putting a lot of money into funding health visitors to visit first-time mothers , but some would argue that there is nothing innovative about this . |
| 11 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 12 | There is nothing odd about that . |
| 13 | I here is nothing odd in that , for the two activities call for separate sets of accomplishments . |
| 14 | There is nothing odd in this ; the academic freedoms that the academic community enjoys generate their own academic ethic which members of the academic community should fulfil if they are to warrant those privileges ( Shils 1984 ) . |
| 15 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 16 | But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes . |
| 17 | It seems to me that for those , like myself , who want to include divine revelation with science in their total picture about the origin of life , the thought that it could have originated in one that supports their belief that God had a hand in these matters . |
| 18 | Well I work as a psychotherapist and it seems to me that for some people change is impossible and when that is the case then its my job to help them to come to terms with who they are and what they are and how there going to remain , but the other side of it is helping people to change and I have to say usually its to loose weight , that 's the biggest reason people want to change . |
| 19 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 20 | On two occasions he , repeated me that like that . |
| 21 | But she yes , she told me that in all , in the shop . |
| 22 | He looked like a child wearing his father 's clothes , but there was nothing childlike about this man . |
| 23 | There was nothing political in this , and , when the Young Liberals branch had closed down , they all started coming to the YCs . |
| 24 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 25 | There is nothing shameful about that . |
| 26 | There is nothing shameful in this situation and we will be better able to deal with it if we recognise it . |
| 27 | And erm you know er sometimes I 'm sorry that it 's come to this because like this family er they made a bomb out of it we 're not saying that we 're not denying them that at all . |
| 28 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 29 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 30 | But I find nothing improper in this threat . |