Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 4 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 5 | There was disappointment , however , as it became clear that none of the 10 water companies are likely to get into the FTSE index of the hundred biggest companies . |
| 6 | From our results , it is clear that none of the mutations introduced in the different tRNA Asp variants considerably affected the synthesis of m 2 G at positions in the aminoacyl-stem and D-stem ( Table 1 ) . |
| 7 | But although the literature on these questions is very large and continually increasing , it is very clear that none of the specialists concerned know any of the answers . |
| 8 | Yet it is one of the most distinctive brachiopods in the whole record and it has internal structures which make it clear that none of the abundant brachiopods in the strata above or below could possibly be classified as even distant relations . |
| 9 | We have made it explicitly clear that none of the changes that we propose , either in tax or in national insurance contributions , will make a penny difference to any individual earning less than £21,000 a year . |
| 10 | A fine Italianate palazzo was built in Edwardian times , and by then , as in so many other places , it was in fact two stations that were required , one suburban and one for the main line . |
| 11 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 12 | I was an articulate , busy girl , brave as anything on the platform , but timid about love . |
| 13 | It is possible that none of the top three will take the honours , for Edinburgh Civil Service are once again coming with a tremendous run , reminiscent of last season , when they fell at the final hurdle . |
| 14 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 15 | She slipped quietly out of the hotel , grateful that none of the other cast members were around to witness her departure , and made her way to the car park . |
| 16 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 17 | Eventually Ubaldo became convinced that someone in the family circle was supplying the gang with information on a day-to-day basis . |
| 18 | The storyline was too far-fetched and none of the actors was particularly good . ’ |
| 19 | They were simple creatures , made of two layers of cells , one on the outside and one on the inside , with every part of the body within reach of the outside for the efficient transport of nutrients and wastes . |
| 20 | All this is generally freely given , which is fortunate since none of the clearinghouses has a budget with which to buy published material . |
| 21 | Boll would be in the Directors ' dining room , Basil would have gone to see his cronies in A area , Wayne would have gone out with those as young and limited as himself to the Hind 's Head in the village , Carol would be in the canteen wittering with the other Clerical Assistants and her husband . |
| 22 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 23 | But the states for which the nineteenth century had been a success story , Germany and still more Great Britain , showed little or nothing of the desire for officially-backed dissemination of their culture and advertisement of their intellectual achievements which was so noticeable in France . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | My early assumptions as a reader were that black people signified little or nothing in the imagination of white American writers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 30 | Indeed , there is now little or none of the traditional progression or interweaving of rock climbing and other mountain activities . |