Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 What was important was a shared antagonism towards democracy and the left and a common commitment to some sort of authoritarian , corporate state .
5 Will it be a multiple choice or a written or a
6 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 .
7 That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus .
8 it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants .
9 Behind her in the hallway was a grey Rotweiler no bigger than a pony and no fiercer than a cobra with a hangover .
10 An impending thirtieth birthday and a two and a half year-old daughter called Sophie have n't turned her fashion tastes one whit .
11 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 .
12 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 ) .
13 It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility .
14 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 .
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