Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be technically possible , for instance , to hold in less than 1 terabyte detailed information for every individual in the world , akin to that collected about everyone in the UK through the Census of Population . |
| 2 | The bit about everyone in the in a dinner queue . |
| 3 | The missed cues , the botching of business , the somewhat lumpy prancings of the Tiger Lily troupe counted for nothing beside the chilling authority of Hook and the strutting Peter , unearthly yet real of Mary Deare . |
| 4 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 5 | We asked for nothing but a few gestures — |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , surely you do not expect Dinah to spend all her days as a spinster , living for nothing but the stage ? |
| 7 | Most doubters either think they have grace or care for nothing but the day itself . |
| 8 | I wished for nothing but the absence of pain , and Lili seemed beyond harm : as secure and unassailable as the morning-star . |
| 9 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 10 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 11 | In the highly oxygenated water below a weir swim the little fish not known for nothing as the ‘ miller 's thumb ’ : the flattened head of the fish was often compared with the thumb of the miller , worn it was said from testing the flour . |
| 12 | No one can be quite I happy in an ill-planned house any more than in ill-fitting clothes , and although the ‘ cut' ’ and ‘ ‘ style , ’ are much , they count for nothing in a garment which pinches and annoys the wearer in a hundred ways … |
| 13 | A fortnight ago , the Norwich Union East Champions lost to Redbridge and Ilford , who Chelmsford have beaten this season , but form would count for nothing in a derby game , he insisted . |
| 14 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |
| 15 | All this counts for nothing in the world of rugby and it will be his ability to scrum and compete with the best that will make or break this South African legend . |
| 16 | That is in itself a problem , for nothing in the arguments to explain the decline suggests why the fall in fertility should stop at about a two-child family , rather than ‘ overshoot ’ and decline still further ( Chapter 4 ) . |
| 17 | This weekend 's results , of course , will count for nothing in the Olympics . |
| 18 | ‘ Scroungers ’ expect something for nothing from the Welfare State , rather than offering a fair day 's work for a fair day 's pay . |
| 19 | The Communist Party could apparently hope for little from the Socialist League and for nothing from the Labour Party . |
| 20 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 21 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 22 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 23 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 24 | At their most basic this might be a name and address book that can dial the number selected , but the target is for more sophisticated uses , such as the shared white board approach , where workers can doodle their ideas on the computer screens linked by one 64kbps B channel , while chatting about them on a phone connected over the second channel . |
| 25 | It was impossible to be afraid ; but impossible not to be alert , alive , crisp in every sensation , glad in the headlong abundance of reviving life that washed about them on every side . |
| 26 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 27 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 28 | So long as the documents have been sent to all those entitled to attend a general meeting in accordance with section 238 , it is a pointless farce to require a formal general meeting to be held in order that they may be ‘ laid ’ unless a member wants to raise questions about them at a meeting , or the auditors want to have an opportunity of talking to the members about them . |
| 29 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 30 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |