Example sentences of "[det] [be] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My fears in this are also as a father with a daughter in P6 . ’ |
| 2 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 3 | This is evidently in a way general . |
| 4 | This is generally for a set sum , over an agreed period , during which you sill pay back the capital and the interest : the rate of interest is fixed at the time you take out the loan , so your monthly repayments never change . |
| 5 | This is rather like a radiator working in reverse ( in fact , a radiator could be used as a solar panel ) . |
| 6 | This is rather like an attitude one might take to the philosophical discussions about whether we have free will or not . |
| 7 | I do n't think they do , this is just like a sample , , so we know what we 're talking about and we do n't . |
| 8 | This is just in a courtyard and there 'll be shrubs and things so she 's got |
| 9 | Rawnsley is cheeky about Kinnock , Major and poor Ashdown , while David McKie writes , in a magisterial preface , ‘ This is still in a sense a watershed election . ’ |
| 10 | This is mainly as an alternative to shopping on Friday evening or Saturday , although seven-day opening had brought a ‘ small increment ’ in sales . |
| 11 | However , there is no official going rate for estate agency fees and if individual agents are prepared to cut their fees , this is only for a business reason . |
| 12 | This is so for a variety of reasons . |
| 13 | The most efficient predators may take animals as large as or larger than themselves , but this is usually as a result of communal hunting , for example amongst the mammalian carnivores . |
| 14 | ‘ One occasionally sees a comment regarding cut-rate estate agency prices ; however , this is usually for a reason , either buying business or desperation . |
| 15 | This is usually alongside a lawyer from the children 's panel , rather than one with experience in criminal cases . |
| 16 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 17 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 18 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 19 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 20 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 21 | This was more like a pause in the struggle . |
| 22 | But this was only for a second . |
| 23 | This was so despite a provision in the Articles of the company defining " the board " as including " any committee authorised by the board to act on its behalf " . |
| 24 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 25 | ‘ These are probably worth a bomb , ’ she told Sendei , who had spent the night as sleeplessly as her . |
| 26 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 27 | Businesses such as these are now in a position to move cautiously forward . |
| 28 | Another Florentine nobleman , Jacopo Corsi , who took over the role of patron of the camerata when Bardi left for Rome , composed two numbers for Dafne , a tiny aria for Apollo and a unison coro finale , which have survived , but these are hardly in a nuova maniera . |
| 29 | Yeah , and he was in it , okay that 's fi that 's ten , how many are there in a cricket team ? |
| 30 | And how many are there in a pool table ? |