Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 2 | He looked young , a little boy , as he said this and like a little boy who has been thrashed by playground bullies and can not do anything in return but hate them . |
| 3 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 4 | I wonder whether , if Labour Members present were Members not of this but of a similar Parliament in an eastern European country or in Russia , they would be taking this attitude . |
| 5 | A word spelt like another but with a different meaning , eg bow in a bow and arrow and tie one 's hair with a bow . |
| 6 | They are able to do this because with a large number of depositors it is highly unlikely that they would all want to withdraw their deposits at the same time . |
| 7 | Thirty one patients withdrew during the trial : four because of adverse events ( one receiving fluticasone propionate , three receiving prednisolone ) , 24 because of lack of improvement ( 12 in each group ) , one receiving fluticasone propionate because of poor compliance , one who did not complete the trial , and another because of a positive pregnancy test ( both receiving prednisolone ) . |
| 8 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 9 | Mr Morton and his colleagues will have to answer some awkward questions , not least from small investors , many of whom bought into the company attracted by the perks and the sense of excitement as much as by a detailed understanding of the economics of the enterprise . |
| 10 | You can enjoy the water in a small dinghy as much as in a luxury yacht . |
| 11 | And frequently , at the end of his life as much as in A Free Man 's Worship , you find him talking about nature in these highly personalized terms . |
| 12 | In addition , even though a fifth of total income is derived from occupational pensions , the vast majority of pensioners rely on social security either for all or for a significant proportion of their income : two-thirds of them receive 80 per cent or more of their income from this source . |
| 13 | There had been bad and costly muddles in the early days of the war ; agriculture had been disrupted by the number of peasants called to the colours , and eventually some had had to be returned to the fields ; the great Renault motor works was closed down , all but for a small shop making stretchers — motor vehicles evidently being considered a luxury with little application to the war effort . |
| 14 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 15 | Is that because of a heightened awareness of the dangers of tube travel , or do statistics bear out the intuition that death by subterranean dismemberment is one of the current favourites ? |
| 16 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |
| 17 | It may also express other varieties of emphasis — for instance , contrast — but this is in no way required of it any more nor less than of a prenominal adjective . |
| 18 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 19 | If Midland Life is required to make any payment under the Policyholders ' Protection Act 1975 ( or any enactment amending or replacing the same or of a similar nature ) or if there is any change in the law or Inland Revenue practice affecting a Guaranteed Capital Bond the benefits provided by such a Bond may be varied by Midland Life in such manner as the Midland Life Actuary considers appropriate . |
| 20 | 1.3 A student may undertake a variety of Music Making modules at the same or at a different level for a combination of music categories . |
| 21 | However , whether the expression of P3A - and P3A + variants of α subunit in humans is transcriptionally regulated by the same or by a different promoter/enhancer element is not known . |
| 22 | There are many ways in which you can help yourself without incurring extra costs , either on your own or with a small group of friends . |
| 23 | Another variety — the low-voltage miniature halogen lamp — is designed for use in a special fitting complete with a transformer and is excellent used on its own or with a miniature track for lighting objects and paintings , as is the new low-voltage halogen reflector lamp . |
| 24 | It can be photographed on its own or in a likely setting . |
| 25 | You must obviously decide in your own parish what can best be done , whether for your own or from a neighbouring parish . |
| 26 | But this too has problems , some of which are the same as with a statutory cash ratio : |