Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 A staple gun is often quicker and safer to use than a hammer and nails .
2 While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles .
3 I was relaxed and much recovered when a nomad appeared from behind a crag fifty yards away and looked down on me .
4 In their introduction Sugden and John indicated in 1976 ( p. 1 ) that the study of glacial processes and forms had been left out in the cold and poorly understood because a gulf had arisen between those who study glaciology and those who study glacial landscape and deposits , and further that :
5 This serves to support some of the statements made in Section 12.5 and again emphasizes that a good index is one which permits effective retrieval .
6 A score of ten or less suggests that a revision of all Goal I material is needed .
7 He is tart , relentlessly superficial and completely lost if a caller has a serious problem .
8 This reflected in part a widespread criticism of psychiatry as paternalistic and socially controlling and a growing interest in the civil tights of under-privileged groups .
9 Hong Kong : Strong institutional and overseas buying after a morning decline drove the Hang Seng index up 17.83 to 2,844.04 .
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