Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ .
2 June had asked Hilda Lodge to thank everyone for the lovely flowers sent to her during her recent stay in hospital .
3 On her retiral she commented , ‘ I 've enjoyed many rewarding moments through the years and I 'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful send off and beautiful gifts . ’
4 Our attitude is that we want to see everyone in the six counties , whether Protestant or Catholic , active in the movement to attain civil rights for the people there .
5 Hard though he tried , Floyd could make nothing of the inward half and Couples , having gone to the front with a birdie at the ninth , was never caught again .
6 Below , they revealed nothing but a thin haze .
7 The deadline for lodging the appeal is midnight tonight but UEFA have so far heard nothing from the Georgian club .
8 That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office .
9 He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours .
10 Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) .
11 Sometimes they are perceived only by those in intimate contact , yet sometimes they can make everyone in a large crowd aware of individual feelings .
12 He sat staring before him , seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers , inexhaustible and prolific to the end of time .
13 If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette .
14 ‘ With your good-looking Drew ? ’ asked someone with a friendly laugh .
15 ‘ He had to go to Burford to see someone about a new job . ’
16 Kissing in this form , as a proper way to greet someone in a certain relation to oneself , is a social convention .
17 And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known .
18 Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys .
19 The action begins in the Vatican papal apartments , where all the cardinals use mobile phones , the head of security is a Mafia hood from the Bronx , and Pope John Paul II ( Berwick Kaler , who looks nothing like the real pontiff ) is suffering from acute paranoia .
20 ‘ A visit to the Moon and a space walk-to say nothing of the Big Dipper and the Whiplash — all in one day ?
21 After lots of hard work during the day , Terry invited everyone to a special ‘ Black & White ’ evening which produced some wonderful sights .
22 Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School .
23 Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial .
24 If reliability is defined in terms of the production of truth , it adds nothing to the first condition once we restrict our attention to the particular case .
25 If it is defined in terms of justification , it adds nothing to the third .
26 ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’
27 Inside is a long , uncarpeted prison-like corridor with bedrooms on either side of it , a television lounge which is furnished in the drabbest possible manner and a recreation room which contains nothing but a few wooden chairs and tables .
28 These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives .
29 The Victorians used nothing but the finest timber in their churches and it 's absolutely first class for recycling .
30 Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father .
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