Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nor does it impress Freud to be told that religious propositions are ‘ as if ’ types of proposition , and that one should live ‘ as if ’ it were true that there were gods , or God , for there is nothing to lose this way .
2 Studies carried out in Hull , did nothing to confirm this prediction .
3 No , not everyone goes that way .
4 Everyone agreed that investiture by lay rulers conferred no spiritual power : it did no more than put a prelate in possession of the rights , lands , and secular dignities of his new office .
5 Everyone agreed that tinnitus was worse when they were tired , particularly when they were mentally tired rather than physically tired .
6 Everyone agrees that confidence is the magic ingredient needed to spark recovery .
7 EVERYONE agrees that computing in the 1990s will be dominated by client-server networks , but there is no agreement about the form these will take .
8 No-one made any block-bookings at all , ’ she said .
9 Nothing made any sense . ’
10 What was there to be so glad about when nothing made any difference ?
11 nothing got some tissues
12 At first neither Ceauşescu 's guards and officials nor the older professional participants in the display wanted to let the young woman take part , but she did nothing to banish any assumption that her surname indicated a relationship with the First Lady .
13 Nearly everyone made some kind of a contribution .
14 ‘ Yes , well , everyone thinks that way , ’ said Constance .
15 ‘ Will nothing make that water cold ? ’
16 Nothing illustrates this point so clearly as the fate of a paper published in 1874 by C. Nägeli entitled Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber .
17 You are not failing — everyone has these crises , whatever age they are .
18 Everyone has some way of coming into a cognitive and very deeply associational relationship with clothing — perhaps we should bring that to painting and sculpture ’ , says Richard Martin , the newly appointed curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( that 's the way he tends to talk ) .
19 Everyone has some kind of world view .
20 ‘ In our CIT everyone has some responsibility for solving problems . ’
21 Everyone has some quality they like , even if it is just that you are kind to animals .
22 Everyone has some reason to be afraid of the police , and fear , like money , can be spent on something quite unrelated to what has created it .
23 Mrs Murchie , 48 , who has been a member for nine years , believes everyone needs some kind of first aid training .
24 You 'll save a lot of wear and tear on your hands if you buy a stainless steel trowel , because nothing causes more blisters than using a rusty trowel .
25 But until the inventor has done both things [ product and gestalt ] nothing has any meaning .
26 I have tried endless products which claim to remedy this , but nothing has any effect .
27 Handsome , talented , and wealthy he might be , but he was also rude and abrasive , and she had done nothing to deserve such treatment .
28 But not everyone accepts these arguments .
29 There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al.
30 ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’
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