Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [adv] [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 2 | If Gedge inadvertently adopts a rockist pose , he instantly recognises the irony and sends himself up . |
| 3 | IF AMERICA ever needs a banking tsar , Bruce Sundlun is your man . |
| 4 | And so English regularly expresses a meaning contrast between house and houses , whereas Eskimo regularly expresses a meaning contrast between iglu , igluk , and iglut ( ‘ one/two/more than two houses ’ ) . |
| 5 | When corrosion really takes a hold , the radiators themselves may start to leak , and the overall effect is to reduce the system 's efficiency . |
| 6 | we find that we put that on in summer and it , it feel , keeps us warm even when weather just goes a bit |