Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage there will be a decision to do nothing or pursue the issue . |
| 2 | If they turn all their power on Forteviot , we either have to do nothing or cross the river ourselves and give battle . |
| 3 | The most obvious initiatives are to seek an idea from someone or to put an idea yourself ( see Seeking ideas on page 152 and Idea-having on page 86 ) . |
| 4 | Someone that means the world out there is not such a cold place after all . |
| 5 | Certainly nothing that proves a conspiracy . |
| 6 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 7 | Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life . |
| 8 | There is nothing that tells the truth about us , as Christian people , so much as our prayer life . |
| 9 | When labour has finished , the world celebrates with gifts of knitted pastels and flowers in ceramic baby booties , nothing that acknowledges the momentous nature of this event : the forging and re-forging or three people . |
| 10 | I remember ‘ laying down a fleece ’ that I would not proceed towards the ordained ministry unless the Lord enabled me to lead another to Christ before a certain date : there is nothing that concentrates the mind as such an agreement with God ! |
| 11 | Nothing that rang a bell . |
| 12 | The fretwork is well up to Valley Arts standard , with nothing that offends the eye or fingers in any way . |
| 13 | Given the very real threat of political vetting , many in the community think it is better to say nothing than risk the wrath of government . |
| 14 | The occupation did nothing except to fuel the sense of outrage the Italians felt about their treatment at the hands of the older powers . |
| 15 | The Turks cautiously did nothing except invite the powers to maintain the Berlin settlement . |
| 16 | But so far Sergeant Juron had done nothing except walk the Emperor along , swaying , in their wake . |
| 17 | He said the RSSPCC would unconditionally oppose the programme ‘ on the simple principle that this can do nothing except prolong the distress and damage of the children , ’ regardless of the rights or wrongs of the authorities ' handling of the case . |
| 18 | When you reply to somebody or send an acceptance or |
| 19 | Cos I mean , I remember saying that , they , he knew somebody that had a catheter for two years ! |
| 20 | What you do , you have your group together , and you have a facilitator , somebody that presents the problem , and you also have somebody that 's going to be the scribe . |
| 21 | We wo n't have a class on that 's just somebody that republishes the book . |
| 22 | I knew nobody and had no idea of what to expect when I presented myself to the new teacher in my new black overall and white collar . |
| 23 | It was ill fact a log hook that he had bought from somebody and changed the name . |
| 24 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 25 | Nedim boasts that he is afraid of nothing and says the Serb fighters who call themselves |
| 26 | Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ? |
| 27 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 28 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 29 | Particularly when good applicants are in short supply advertisements placed in Teachers ' Centres and nearby colleges , faculties and institutes of education cost nothing and improve the trawl . |
| 30 | Afterwards she repented it bitterly , but she was hopeless at apologizing : instead of retracting her feelings , what she always did was to say that she was sorry for expressing them , a kind of amends that costs nothing and carries the built-in rebuke that the other person is unable to bear the truth . |