Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
| 2 | The tale that tickled me most concerns a trip to England — a country which Rollins caricatures as a pissing-with-rain hell hole populated entirely by spotty Morrissey-worshipping wimps who eat nothing but fish and potatoes smeared with grease . |
| 3 | Nothing so unfits a woman for producing good work , or for living usefully . |
| 4 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 5 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 6 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 7 | I 'll remember her wise words if someone ever has a heart attack while I 'm around — there 's no particular hurry . ’ |
| 8 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 9 | And then someone has a conversation with someone else and then someone else has a conversation with someone else and if a man was to walk right the way through the police station he has about five or six conversations , and by the time he gets to the other end of the police station he 's forgotten the first conversation . |
| 10 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 11 | That is a demonstration of several aspects of being a servant ; your time is not your own , someone else has a call on you , you have to obey the master , you have jobs to do for him or her . |
| 12 | Secondly , criminal law involves complex institutional arrangements , for example , magistrates , Crown Courts , juries , the Court of Appeal , Criminal Division ( which remarkably retains a power to overrule its own decisions , see R v. |
| 13 | All elite theorists define the state organizationally as a compulsory institution which successfully maintains a monopoly of legitimate force within a given territory . |
| 14 | Unlike the European Patent Convention , which effectively gives a bundle of national rights , the CPC will introduce a unitary system applying throughout the EC . |
| 15 | There should therefore be a significant and fluctuating gravitational red shift of the pulsar period P : which numerically has an amplitude of order . |
| 16 | Which rather proves a point that in fact it was a low period , and therefore if you take a low period historically , which is er includes a a boom in inverted commas , within that , then overall you 're going to end up with a very low figure er in total . |
| 17 | It is important to do justice to the situation , which necessarily involves a description of a very remarkable woman for whom I have considerable respect . |
| 18 | There must also have been a great number of ferns , lycopods and horsetails existing as understorey plants but also isolated in dense swards , There was not the wide-scale domination of conifers hinted by Benton which somewhat invokes a picture of foodless dark plantation-style forests . |
| 19 | A natural action which only becomes a problem in excess and the foot continues to roll inwards . |
| 20 | We also provide details of a simple AM tuner which can be added to an audio system which only has an FM reception capability . |
| 21 | The first of these is the lack of interest shown by the general public for the game , which only appears a week or so before Wimbledon and disappears a week or so afterwards . |
| 22 | The doctors have a word for that misery ; they call it anhedonia , which only means an inability to feel enjoyment , and that 's what it is , but it feels like hell , like true hell , and it 's a hell you ca n't even escape from in sleep because overdosing on cocaine gives you chronic insomnia . ’ |
| 23 | The prod is not to be confused with the caress which gently brushes a surface . |
| 24 | Beyond the Seventies pastiche which swamped last season 's collections , there is a strong appetite for simplicity and something which perhaps evokes an emphasis on inner beauty . |
| 25 | Yet in this case I think that the block , which perhaps represents a bed on the level of reality , is in the ( statue ) metaphor reclaiming the man . |
| 26 | A bundle of light fibres , which together forms a cable smaller in diameter than a coaxial wire , can carry several hundred TV channels — more than even the most hardened television addict will ever require . |
| 27 | Over the past couple of years Marine Mining has spent £1.3 million surveying the sea bed to discover the most concentrated deposits of the waste , which generally forms a layer about 1 metre thick . |
| 28 | Here is spring and summertime the quiet is broken only by the soothing sound of wood pigeons , which somehow creates an aura of timelessness . |
| 29 | Even SCO insiders are speculating on the possibility that Novell could pick up where USL left off or that Microsoft Corp , which already owns a minority piece of SCO , could come back for more . |
| 30 | Le fair-play ( which already takes a hyphen in French ) becomes le fairplay , and le blue-jean ( which has already lost its s ) becomes le bluejean . |