Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In this strange , go-ahead land , where the British accent is appreciated as much as enthusiasm for a sales career quite mediocre dealers have landed choice jobs . |
2 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
3 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
4 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
5 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
6 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
7 | Acceptance by the official receiver of a proof of debt for voting purposes is not the same as acceptance of a proof by the trustee to rank for dividend . |