Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because here energy levels are often depleted — either she does n't eat properly or she diets in order to keep slim . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 3 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 4 | One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner . |
| 5 | He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors . |
| 6 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 7 | But does this apparent wide-scale support for examinations disguise another motive , that has little or nothing to do with either the practicality or desirability of examining children 's work in these subjects ? |
| 8 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 9 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 10 | Is it switched on or you listening to something ? |
| 11 | Among shrubs or in mixed borders , variegated plants help to add interest to the rest of the display , especially where they contrast with bronze or purple foliage , or harmonise with a golden colour group . |
| 12 | You 're aware that at some stage they 'll need a wash , but you just leave them until they 've calmed down or you talk to them about it . |
| 13 | So where she go to ? |
| 14 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 15 | So it 's normally brought to us either by , the neighbours ringing in or somebody passing by saying they can hear screaming . |
| 16 | Allowing his legs to relax , he worked at unlatching the twin bolts and eased the door open , clambering inside where he dropped to his knees , exhausted , his chest heaving as he sucked in mouthfuls of air . |
| 17 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 18 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 19 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 20 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 21 | She laughed more naturally than she had in his presence before . |
| 22 | As I I love being a candidate , I love talking to voters , I like being active and doing things and that 's the reason basically that I want to be your Euro candidate , I 'm ready to be a candidate again . |
| 23 | Alberta , who had played so well on the Saturday , were beaten 14–6 by Ontario in the third-place game the next day and , while the winners looked a lot more together than they had against Newfoundland , they definitely suffered throughout from the absence of their outstanding flanker , Al Charron , ruled out by a World Cup rib injury . |
| 24 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 25 | He works for a development agency and two of his brothers were killed by Marcos so although he claims to be the least revolutionary of the family , he is fairly well into the issues . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got a home in the country , nothing flash just two farmer 's cottages knocked into one , an extraordinary wife , four amusing , insolent children , a couple of cats and dogs , a football team which regularly wins the league title and a job I like doing more than anything else , so although it sounds like terrible sentimental bullshit , I have got everything I ever wanted . |
| 28 | So although it looks like , Ooh this is horrible , four equations four unknowns , I 'll be here all night |
| 29 | So once they resort to firearms , that is it , ’ a senior government official said . |
| 30 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |