Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [conj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The difficulty here is that simple lack of stress may also alleviate the symptoms — so an improvement while on holiday may be a slightly ambiguous result .
2 Quite often however the question of whether materials are merely an annoyance or in fact a danger to health is a quantitative one .
3 As you 've conceded , Florian 's marriage is no longer a fact except on paper , and Nicky is n't his wife . ’
4 But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research .
5 Nevertheless it is still a loan that of course has to be repaid .
6 A piano bar is open once a week and in front of the hotel is a pool and sun terrace .
7 Hence a preference as to dividend will not imply a preference as to capital ( or vice versa ) .
8 The strength of their conviction both in the inevitability of elites and in the certainty of their own demonstration is both a limitation and on occasion a source of penetrating insights .
9 If you are equally worried about giving birth in both a hospital and at home you might prefer something in the middle : Some hospitals allow women to use water pools in the labour ward and you can arrange for your GP to help with the birth rather than hospital doctors .
10 As Lord Wilberforce said in Suisse Atlantique : One may safely say that the parties can not in a contract have contemplated that the clause should have so wide an ambit as in effect to deprive one party 's stipulations of all contractual force : to do so would be to reduce the contract to a mere declaration of intent .
11 That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population .
12 They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies .
13 The second major issue which I believe had been used against the new settlement as a an appropriate Greater York area , is that it 's inconsistent with erm current recent central government planning advice , and basically the argument is that the proposals for the new settlement are contrary to er planning policy guidance notes three and twelve , and draft er P P G thirteen , if I can deal with P P G thirteen first of all , and the observation of Mr Curtis that the new settlement is a last resort , erm now I could find no reference to that at all erm in P P G three , or even a sentiment that at planning policy er that a new settlement should be regarded erm as a policy of last resort .
14 Pat is assisted in her work by students from the nearby Bishop Burton Agricultural College , who happily help out twice a week while on work experience .
15 In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now .
16 Obviously , tables can be a visible part of a storage wall , acting as either a desk or for dining , and some of them have an extendable top so that they can be pulled right out when you have company .
17 A comparison with the total income tax due will disclose either an over or under payment of income tax .
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