Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was made clear that the CIS was not considered a state or even a supranational grouping , and would therefore have no citizenship . |
| 2 | In his New Year address Iliescu announced that collective and state farms were to be largely privatized , and that a five-day working week would be introduced in March ( most Romanians had been required under Ceausescu to work a six- or even a seven-day week ) . |
| 3 | There was all the difference in the world between meeting a retired sporting hero behind the bar and meeting a shareholder or even a director . |
| 4 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 5 | Had letters published in a newspaper , or written an article or even a book . |
| 6 | If he sees a worm or even a woodlouse , everything stops for the rescue . |
| 7 | The village does n't have a pub or even a shop . |
| 8 | They inherited a suspicion or even a fear of drama often combined with the unspoken conviction shared by David Hargreaves that drama is a communal , performing art . |
| 9 | I was beat , but I could n't risk a motel or even a flophouse . |
| 10 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 11 | Its vast volume of water pours into a huge cleft in the earth that is thirty-three , metres deep and in some places only thirty-three metres wide ; a long , parallel-sided cleft that becomes a gorge or even a canyon . |