Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little or nothing beyond the holding of a market distinguished the smallest towns from mere villages , for no small number contained not more than two or three hundred inhabitants . |
| 2 | In the case of architecture it is the idea that is seminal — little or nothing of the form is taken over ; but in sculpture what was to become the dominant type of Greek statue through the archaic period , the naked young man , kouros , owes a direct debt to Egyptian models . |
| 3 | In the statement by Her Majesty 's Opposition , the Secretary of State heard a continuation of the velvet glove policy , which means , do little or nothing against the terrorist . |
| 4 | it 's erm Steve 's mother 's birthday and Gavin 's , they 've got to get him up about midday , one o'clock or something up the school tomorrow she said I have n't even packed yet . |
| 5 | if erm you know , if we go a bit later , say like about seven o'clock or something to the cinema . |
| 6 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 7 | A highly motivated individual , it is argued , will perform better than one with a low level of motivation . |
| 8 | With his great hands , Jimmy returned the fast serve better than anyone in the history of the game . |
| 9 | Alcock , the man with the astronomical memory , probably knows the sky better than anyone in the world , possibly in history . |
| 10 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 13 | ‘ I love you better than anything in the world . |
| 14 | These have six numbers and they 're designed so that everybody in the press , regardless of trunk access can use the numbers described . |
| 15 | We 've also er recently been talking to erm a lecturer of the University who is doing a project , a research project , and would like to er offer his services to us in in that er in that project , so we at the early stages but nonetheless I think it is er very important that we do er test the market place and find out what both think of us , so that we with a prime and only objective of improving a service |
| 16 | He knew that he was the shortest in the class by about three inches and that Mr Gillis was considerate enough to bark out the height of each boy after measurement so that everyone in the class knew the awful truth . |
| 17 | Each unit is still divided into five Focuses so that everyone in the classroom knows what kind of work to expect on each page . |
| 18 | It must be easy to use , so that everyone in the personnel department can have access to it . |
| 19 | Separate meetings were also held at Douglas Reyburn in Kilmarnock and at Lyles in Cumbernauld so that everyone in the group was given the opportunity of attending . |
| 20 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 21 | Since the individual risks are multiplied together ( so that someone with a double risk on each factor has an overall eight-fold increased risk ) the trial could be done on a much smaller number of volunteers . |
| 22 | You can not imagine him putting up with the committee which apparently advised Elizabeth II in 1960 to buy an all too committee-like selection of modern artists — Nolan , Lowry , Hitchens , Davie — chosen , one suspects , so that none of the great men felt left out . |
| 23 | And when ye would set out for Castille , let all the people know in secret , that they make themselves ready , and take with them all that they have , so that none of the Moors in the suburb may know thereof ; for certes ye can not keep the city , neither abide therein after my death . |
| 24 | The story about the holiday and the car accident were put about , even told to his wife in the beginning , so that none of the others still in Poland should be put in danger . ’ |
| 25 | There was only that one with the bit of enamel chipped off . |
| 26 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 27 | The Venezia also has two bars — one inside and one by the pool , where BBQ 's are held some evenings . |
| 28 | A fairly young man in Italian leisure wear from the waist down and nothing but a tan from the waist up appeared from a cabin , ready to repel boarders . |
| 29 | And I 'm there bouncing up and down and what with the heat of the sun and the smell — I tell you , mate , it feels like days . |
| 30 | ‘ My guess is they came for some of Connie Fraser 's clothes , found the place upside down and me on the floor , then when they reported to Bonanza he told 'em to forget about the clothes . ’ |