Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way .
2 There are ( thankfully ) fewer ‘ guitar ’ sounds this time and quite a few spacey ‘ pads ’ .
3 But the National government was locked on course for appeasement and , with the parliamentary majority which it enjoyed , there seems little doubt that even a powerful political campaign by the Labour Party , in league with other anti-fascist groups , could have changed its policies .
4 A similar conception of the role of sociology ( though with a more ‘ radical ’ political orientation ) is held by certain contemporary sociologists who want sociology to be not simply a discipline which analyses and explains social life but rather a vehicle for changing society , a discipline committed to the extensive alteration of existing social structural arrangements .
5 The Act lists basic questions to be asked but permits census-to-census variation and often a census will concentrate on some topic of current interest .
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