Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is more likely that in many situations there is a conflict of interest between capital and labour over this issue and thus a need to negotiate the outcome .
2 Alina smiled , with some confidence but also a lot of apprehension still , and she moved around the table toward the door .
3 Remarkably , exactly the same pattern was seen with chimpanzee DNA , indicating not only a duplication of ZNF11 genes in this ape but also a conservation of sequence at all four EcoRI sites defined in man .
4 But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women .
5 I understand that a bridge over a stream on this footpath and also a gate are in a very poor state of repair .
6 They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion …
7 Though all three sides of the new diplomatic ‘ triangle ’ are interconnected , all too often , states find less connectivity and more a sense of contradictory pulls among the imperatives of choices that can not be avoided , as figure 2.1 illustrates .
8 More coffee and perhaps a spot of brandy ?
9 He thought briefly about Surere again , and wondered with something akin to panic whether he would reappear ; then , angered with himself at this disloyalty to a former colleague and certainly a fellow-sufferer under the new regime , he dismissed the matter and concentrated instead on what he would say to Taheb .
10 Do a range protect on that same range and then a range erase of that same range .
11 Drama is not simply a subject , but also — more importantly — a method ; it is both a creative art form in its own right and also a learning tool .
12 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 .
13 WORLD recession is blamed for the problems in our own economy but only a minority of people in the country accept that .
14 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 .
15 Imitation or role modelling by children describes the way that they copy the actions or behaviour of someone they admire , usually of their own sex and possibly a parent or even a tv character .
16 You will need a good honours degree in any discipline or alternatively a degree , HND or equivalent combined with experience at management level .
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