Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means that a plaintiff with no more than an arguable case for suppressing a story on breach of confidence grounds can obtain , at a secret High Court hearing , an injunction against one defendant ( perhaps a journal whose financial position does not permit a legal contest ) and thereafter enforce it against every media outlet in the country . |
| 2 | Again he saw the thing divide and grow and change , like the ever-evolving pattern in a kaleidoscope , but this thing was real , alive as alive as only a thing whose sole purpose was to kill could be . |
| 3 | For most students , physics was no longer a subject which required thought and understanding : |
| 4 | I thought that there must be something wrong with me , and I had to do something to prove that I was not just a thing which other people used , of value only because you , Papa , are so enormously rich . |
| 5 | Not a Hammond you stupid fool ! |
| 6 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 7 | This was not a problem which American headhunters — working in a vast country with few national newspapers read throughout the land — had had to face . |
| 8 | It is not a calculation which any member of the public should attempt by himself or herself and it should certainly not tend to discourage people from seeking legal advice on problems when they need it . |
| 9 | More a ‘ chip off the old block ’ than a fully-fledged offspring , it is nonetheless a piece which all admirers of VW should certainly hear . |
| 10 | Once a week my entire office went somewhere special for lunch together . |
| 11 | Hang on a minute your Bavarian band . |
| 12 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 13 | As indicated in the recent guidelines of the Department of Health and Social Security ( 1984 ) , a sensible approach towards establishing comprehensive services would be for clinicians in each area to set up a service which most suits local conditions and needs . |
| 14 | I remember only too well a student whose little girl died at six months of age . |
| 15 | The Cocktail Party presents again a world whose moral base has been eroded , though surface conventions remain . |