Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 2 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
| 3 | One petitioner wants a grant to repair the leaky roof of his house , another a grant to clear the stream running past his farm , another wants a Council job and a fourth and a fifth want help with social welfare applications . |
| 4 | Conversely , evidence that no more than a modest quantity of water has been lost comes from considering the fate of oxygen liberated . |
| 5 | The essential difference , the author claims , is that ‘ caring work involves a degree of intimacy , of closeness socially ( emotionally and/or physically ) between the carer and the cared-for and a recognition of the individuality of the person receiving the service ’ . |
| 6 | What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state . |
| 7 | Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a |
| 8 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 9 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 10 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 11 | The widely-held fears stem from the reasonable assumption that an independent or a devolved Scotland would be incapable of existing without considerable handouts from Whitehall and would have an administration with more than a left-wing tinge . |
| 12 | Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover . |
| 13 | An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit . |
| 14 | Its casing measures just 107 by 75 by 32mm , with a DB-25 serial port at one end and an RJ-11 and a power inlet at the other . |
| 15 | As soon as a slum kid entered a Ragged School or a Borstal or a Barnardo 's Home , the hair was shorn to prevent infestation ) . |
| 16 | I have already suggested ( p. 93 ) that tone and clicker ( at least when presented simultaneously ) might interact perceptually in a way that an auditory and a visual stimulus do not . |
| 17 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 18 | Two fine 18th century dolls are at the centre of the notable doll collection , and there are also dolls ' houses from the 19th century and the 1920s and a model of a German kitchen . |
| 19 | This deep interest was amply reflected in the fact that no fewer than a dozen Argentine railway companies were British-owned . |