Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [noun sg] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 2 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 3 | The children were the first to greet me , their brown eyes looking up , asking silently and then audibly for presents , knowing that my cases must hold something for each of them , if only a ribbon or a sweet . |
| 4 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 5 | Energy is released when either a neutron or a proton is shaken loose , the reactions being written ( n referring to neutron and p proton ) : The combined mass of the final products is smaller than the combined mass of the initial nuclei . |
| 6 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 7 | The first step towards such a combination would be for universities and polytechnics to demonstrate their interest in using graded test results as either a part or the whole of entry qualifications . |
| 8 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 9 | The same sentence may be expressed as either a question or a statement simply by varying it 's pitch ( e.g. ‘ They 're here ! ’ and ‘ They 're here ? ’ ) . |
| 10 | You may not consider yourself as either a salesperson or a negotiator but you are a persuader nonetheless . |
| 11 | This qualification can be taken as either a post-graduate or a post-experience course and is equally relevant to a young graduate starting a career in management or to an older man with some experience of management , who wishes to bring himself up to date with the latest practice . |
| 12 | Only decimal arithmetic may be provided , or separate instruction sets might treat each computer word as either a binary or a decimal value . |