Example sentences of "[det] [noun] or [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 2 | Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question . |
| 3 | There has been little previous research into the origins of this group , nor into whether farm management is a career in its own right or just a stepping stone to becoming a tenant or owner-occupier . |
| 4 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 5 | Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price , instead of the inside , sit on the top of the coach , without any seats or even a rail . |
| 6 | She had been rapt at his every phrase , pen ready to score out any word or even a comma in her essays to please him . |
| 7 | You will need a good honours degree in any discipline or alternatively a degree , HND or equivalent combined with experience at management level . |