Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It left open the question of whose money had paid for the House of Fraser but made clear that nothing in the career of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed could account for such new-found wealth . |
| 2 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 3 | Eventually Ubaldo became convinced that someone in the family circle was supplying the gang with information on a day-to-day basis . |
| 4 | In a properly balanced meal , only one dish should be really hot although chilli/cayenne may be present in others — much as we in the West indiscriminately use black pepper . |
| 5 | Cos if you ever squared up to one of these or anybody in the flats , people 'd just come out of the out of the woodwork . |
| 6 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 7 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 8 | The sort of windows that need little or nothing in the way of treatment are usually narrow slits of glass , small ovals , round , arched , stained and etched glass windows that only show a glimpse of the outside and are often unopenable anyway . |
| 9 | Critics pointed out that at the time of the White Paper and in the process of polytechnic designation there had been little or nothing in the shape of academic planning . |
| 10 | The CDP had welcomed the broad direction in which the CNAA 's discussions had been going in 1975 , but liked little or nothing in the Partnership in Validation document . |
| 11 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 12 | One rejoinder to this would be to cite cases like : ( 35 ) our new neighbours said they had had their old house painted mauve where it is perfectly possible that the house is much younger than anybody in the family . |
| 13 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 14 | This is an altogether more simple reading of the section , and would apply where the policeman comes across a person who is using abusive language , and comes to the conclusion that it is likely that somebody in the audience will intervene to put a stop to it , using unlawful violence ( citizens may have the power to prevent a breach of the peace , but not to preserve the public quiet ) . |
| 15 | It 's another indication that Francis means to continue the Hillsborough revolution started by Ron Atkinson — he changed the thinking in the boardroom , and now Wednesday are as ambitious as anyone in the Premier League . |
| 16 | What , what happened if you were ill at all or anything in the early days , did , did were you allowed time off for illness ? |
| 17 | ‘ The IRA are sure that somebody in the organisation is talking and it 's really put the wind up some people . |
| 18 | And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes . |
| 19 | If we could be sure that everyone in the community was equally generous , it might be possible to finance social services by announcing how much it would cost to run the Health Service per head in the coming year and then leave it to individuals to post an appropriate sum to their local health authority . |
| 20 | Our God is a communicator ; we see that in a supreme way in His gift of Jesus — but in this passage it is clear that God wanted to make sure that everyone in the land could understand the seriousness of the problem . |
| 21 | In view of what my hon. Friend has said — with which I am sure that everyone in the House agrees — I hope that the Bill will have a speedy passage through the House . |
| 22 | In the story , I was the nicer one and would go on to be better than him in the end . |
| 23 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 24 | After two years I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was better than anything in the university . |
| 25 | However , USL has recently claimed that it will configure Destiny to run applications of all persuasions — including Solaris — ( UX No 380 ) , Zander says ‘ if they can do that they 're better than anyone in the world . ’ |
| 26 | She had known Connor O'Dell for nearly ten years now — she knew him better than anyone in the world — and tonight , she knew without any shadow of doubt that he was lying to her . |
| 27 | There were 87 flotations on the USM in 1988 , 67 in 1989 , 47 in 1990 , ten in 1991 , six in 1992 and none in the first quarter of this year . |
| 28 | ‘ They were married and everything in the Catholic Church . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I longed to be as good as him in the schoolroom , ’ she says . |
| 30 | WITH three Australians , the greatest number since the 70s , and the club 's first American rider , Middlesbrough Bears are set to start a new season confident they can be as good as anyone in the Sunbrite League 's second division . |