Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 2 | Men like Pugin , Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 4 | " He has asked to do at least two details at night and if anyone falls sick he will ask to do a third and even a fourth . |
| 5 | Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation . |
| 6 | We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis . |
| 7 | And this is a novel which is I suppose an early but certainly a very embryonic attempt to write À la Recherche . |
| 8 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 9 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 10 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 11 | The graft , like the long spade , has a slightly rounded cutting edge , which again needs to have a good but not a sharp edge to it . |
| 12 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 13 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 14 | It is claimed , for example , that Russia 's ability to produce an atomic and later a nuclear bomb was entirely a result of information given by British spies . |