Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are millions of people who admit to being members of the two Christian churches and their various sects , but who do little or nothing to give substance to that admission . |
| 2 | ‘ . 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 : |
| 3 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But does this apparent wide-scale support for examinations disguise another motive , that has little or nothing to do with either the practicality or desirability of examining children 's work in these subjects ? |
| 8 | Such a dating , however , runs contrary to the other accounts of Molla Fenari 's trip to Egypt and has little or nothing to support it . |
| 9 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 10 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 11 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Some day , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ You 'll find yourself somewhere where someone does understand Flemish , and they 'll cut your ears off , and then all your red hair , wherever you grow it . |
| 14 | The Revenue will not impose interest or penalties on anyone who has simply misunderstood the position , but will consider doing so where someone has knowingly made false or fraudulent declarations on the registration form , or deliberately failed to inform their bank or building society that they had become liable to tax . |
| 15 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 16 | Inside where nothing shows , I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins , and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past . |
| 17 | All except one had good mobility ; none was incontinent ; none wandered from home . |
| 18 | Of those who shared , all except one made some attempt to clean the syringe and 83% always cleaned shared equipment . |
| 19 | It was virtually impossible to say aloud that one welcomed the death of a fellow human being , but she believed that was how Ayling had felt . |
| 20 | Chesarynth booted in the program , making her own little file with an octopus of dark hollow symbols : a worm that would eat up any trace of her prying , provided she did the whole thing quickly enough that no-one noticed while she was in . |
| 21 | A rat tested about 24 hours after being taught does as well as one tested just after being taught , and much better than one tested 12 hours after being taught . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Apparently they 're holding their own — and , in fact , doing slightly better than anyone expected . ’ |
| 24 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 25 | His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection . |
| 26 | ’ . Again Douglas ( 1966 : 138 ) has suggested there is a liaison which exists between the physical body and its use as an expression of the social , so that one becomes a paradigm for the other : ‘ the [ human ] body is a model which can stand for any bounded system … |
| 27 | If an adze was used , smaller trees might have been more practical so that one finished square might be one round long . |
| 28 | so that one goes to the right and this one goes to the left |
| 29 | With climbers , I 've always believed in the more the merrier , but it 's important to team up your plants so that one does not swamp and ruin another . |
| 30 | To use criminal statistics wisely necessitates some prior work in getting to know the difference between indictable and non-indictable offences and also some legal history so that one does not suddenly discover an enormous decrease in a crime such as stealing cars when the new offence of ‘ take and drive away ’ is introduced . |