Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the first leg little or nothing separates the two teams . |
| 2 | All this activity did little or nothing to reduce the level of local taxation . |
| 3 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 6 | Does it conceal a kind of romantic fascism , where everyone has a proper state and none should aspire to alter or change this state ? |
| 7 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 8 | He adds : ‘ I do n't like living like a big star — where everyone has the potential to hurt you or want something from you . |
| 9 | All of my local contacts for people who are willing to travel up to Leeds etc , came as a result of either me , or them wearing a Leeds shirt . |
| 10 | ‘ And I could n't see , so we could n't do any more the things we used to — just little things , like watching the sunset , or laughing at a holopic when we turned out the lights in bed , or me reading a poem to her . |
| 11 | But it was quite impossible for the TCPA or me to bless the Plan unreservedly . |
| 12 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It draws all the Gentlemen to it whenever they are within , especially after Dinner , so that my Br Fanny & I have the Library to ourselves in delightful quiet . ’ |
| 14 | Valdo , Alemao and others often showed a remarkable lightness of touch in the soggy conditions but several times promising movements failed for want of a penetrative final pass or someone reading the right space at the crucial moment . |
| 15 | ‘ Everything you want to do someone has just done or someone has the rights . |
| 16 | In order to reassure the House and the public , perhaps the Minister can explain what is the procedure when a police officer uses the powers given in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to stop someone in the street or someone driving a car . |
| 17 | Like an overgrown Bisto kid I sniffed and aaahed my way to the source of the oaky-smokey smell , where I met a man whom I am very pleased to know . |
| 18 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 19 | After the reception in the Great Hall , where I met the Hon. |
| 20 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 21 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I rushed him back to our nearby hotel , where I cleaned the wounds and fixed three or four large Band-Aids on them . |
| 23 | ‘ Is this where I make the noble suggestion of keeping away at weekends to leave you free to sail as much as you want ? ’ he demanded . |
| 24 | The weeping girl , Vicky , threw herself out of danger into the recesses of the cave , where I stored the fruits of the autumn . |
| 25 | This prompted me to look through my own collection , where I discovered a copy dated August 1931 , priced 2/ |
| 26 | It ended up where I felt the whole world was on my shoulders . |
| 27 | " Two weeks later I was ready to go to a place I did n't know , and where I knew no one . |
| 28 | In the end I retreated to the sofa , where I spent a cold , uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night . |
| 29 | I went by the Galerie de Diane and then down the stairs leading to the basement in the Pavillon de Flore where I followed the underground passage , badly lit — but where were the kitchens ? |
| 30 | In the lunch interval of the Test I made my way to the bar , where I saw the editor of the Herald , Mac Pollock , father of Springboks Peter and Graeme , and decided to discuss Vorster 's threat with him . |