Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer patients were referred from peripheral hospitals in the region , even though one would expect the many peripheral hospitals jointly to have seen as many patients with similar problems as the fewer large central district general hospitals . |
| 2 | So many people were dying that no one would notice a few more . |
| 3 | But if one walks inland across the salt marsh or sabkha and digs a hole , one can find the same algal mat buried beneath wind-blown sand with layers of anhydrite and gypsum . |
| 4 | So if , at some stages of a life , the individual is poorer than at others , this may not matter because everybody will experience the same relative shifts in affluence as they move through stages of life . |
| 5 | At the other extreme , a poll tax that takes the same amount from everyone will keep the same absolute difference between the rewards in one job and the next . |
| 6 | It surely could not be that McNab was confounded , utterly at a loss , for surely almost anyone could string a few medical terms together ( enough to convince the survivors of Krishnapur if not the Royal College of Physicians ) and save face . |