Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 2 | And it does seem to me that erm I ca n't quite understand why it 's possible or it seems to be an argument that you can accommodate a bit more development , squash a bit development into Leeds and Bradford and it does n't matter very much . |
| 3 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 4 | But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions . |
| 5 | In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways . |
| 6 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 7 | But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity . |
| 8 | In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals . |
| 9 | First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy . |
| 10 | Any full study of ‘ unfair competition ’ would have to take account of the legislation protecting intangible business property like trade marks and patents , and of the statutory controls over restrictive trading agreements and monopolies , which have little or nothing to do with anything resembling the law of tort . |
| 11 | Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy . |
| 12 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 13 | Their responsibilities often included areas which had little or nothing to do with foreign policy . |
| 14 | You will find , too , that much of the invented music which is wrapped around the perceived nakedness of those song-melodies uses textures and harmonic colours that have little or nothing to do with real medieval polyphony . |
| 15 | It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama . |
| 16 | Despite its general popularity amongst teachers in schools where the Solihull booklet had been used , the evidence from the survey is that little or nothing changed in consequence . |
| 17 | Now there is little or nothing left of that theology among Church leaders , it being mainly the prerogative of evangelical back benchers . |
| 18 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 19 | Either that or he backs into reverses into a hedge . |
| 20 | Either that or you stood on it . |
| 21 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 22 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be very different where you come from , ’ Lady Grubb said enigmatically to Len , who came from Putney . |
| 24 | Maybe it 's different where you come from . |
| 25 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 26 | That 's damn funny where they went to ! |
| 27 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 28 | So far in this chapter I have tried to spell out how important it is to be clear where one starts from , where present trends are taking one to , and to be ruthlessly honest about the threats from the competition and from the external environment . |
| 29 | Mrs Lemass made it clear where she stood by using a press conference in London at the launch of the sixth BDA week in October 1987 , for announcing that her committee would be calling on the European Parliament , the European Commission and the Council of Ministers to waive all opposition to the use of sign language and to demand official recognition within the EC . |
| 30 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |