Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] [det] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of such a rule of recognition may take any of a huge variety of forms , simple or complex . |
| 2 | They , na , nan and granddad may have that as a sitting room to start with . |
| 3 | When these shops close down for the night , the sound of heavy breathing from their stock must rival that of a porn cinema . |
| 4 | I do n't imagine the dictionary would draw much of a distinction between the two trades . ’ |
| 5 | On scenting an alarm pheromone , an ant may do any of a variety of things : it may run away from the source of the scent ; it may freeze and ‘ play dead ’ , or it may run towards the source of the scent and attack any nearby enemies . |
| 6 | What may be laughed off by one child may send another into a panic of embarrassment , leaving a legacy of permanent caution in later years . |
| 7 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 8 | Some in the profession believe that with unemployment or underemployment among Scottish architects , overseas work could become more of a necessity than an option as time goes on . |
| 9 | But physical victory was a poor thing to a woman and little to preen herself on : any fool could disable another with a judicious cast of fist or foot , a neatly wielded weapon , a dirty trick . |
| 10 | Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate . |
| 11 | ‘ I am not sure that the extra hours will bring in significant extra business , but staff will have to be paid for longer hours and security will become more of a problem . |
| 12 | Properly processed and buried nuclear waste will provide less of a pollution risk than the radiation-filled environment which we inhabit at present . |
| 13 | And I 've no power of attorney — so any banker can take that as a good and valid reason for waiting until you return . ’ |
| 14 | Now the defenders of participatory democracy would consider this as a very weak objection . |
| 15 | That 's that 's the present case , but I think er impact would say that with a fifty-fifty split , then those trustees should elect their own chairman and should be free to bring in independent trustees , so if you had a board of say four company members and four elected by the members er of the pension fund , they might decide to have two outside independents , one of which they would choose as the Chairman . |
| 16 | Different clothes would be the end of things as they were , the baby would become more of a reality . |
| 17 | One debate focuses on the power and influence of elites within Japanese society , and obviously any book on the Japanese state must have this as a major element , and indeed it does . |
| 18 | But the long term aim is to make it all dual carriageway … hopes are high the government will announce this in a couple of years . |
| 19 | In certain cases , the Government will guarantee most of a loan , which makes it possible for us to lend in circumstances where we would ordinarily not do so . |
| 20 | Improved performance will overcome these in a short time . |
| 21 | Improved performance will overcome these in a short time . |
| 22 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
| 23 | A man can teach another man that a red light means " stop " ; a man can teach this to a chimpanzee ; a chimpanzee can not teach this to a man , and one chimpanzee can not teach this to another.4 |
| 24 | In such instances the Church can become more of a barrier than a channel in the communication of the gospel . |
| 25 | Likewise , those leisure companies with operations outside the South East may experience less of a slow down . |
| 26 | The Department of Health must accept that without a substantial increase in the consultant body and rationalisation of acute services the new deal will undoubtedly fail . |
| 27 | Componential analysis would handle these as a single feature , say [ + old ] or [ -old ] , but this would be somewhat unsatisfactory because although old and young are dictionary antonyms , age is a continuum rather than an opposition . |
| 28 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 29 | The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style . |
| 30 | Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer . |