Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 2 | It was a phrase spontaneously recalled by someone with only a little English . |
| 3 | No-one with even a passing knowledge of tax would doubt that it is now one of the most complex areas of an accountant 's work . |
| 4 | For example , if you feel like cheese on toast for lunch , rather than having a couple of slices of toast piled with cheese , have two slices of toast , one with just a moderate layer of cheese on top , and one with baked beans . |
| 5 | It is crucial not to take everything in either a literal sense or in a humanistic , reinterpretative sense . |
| 6 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 7 | Anything with even a modest smack of hops dries the palate ready for the next one . |