Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun sg] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks ended with little more than an agreement to hold a third round in Norway in early 1993 . |
| 2 | Only if a building reaches the next stage commonly regarded as romantically old-world is its survival reasonably assured . |
| 3 | It may follow Aconite if an attack returns the next morning . |
| 4 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
| 5 | Aspects of the work of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) which we discussed in Chapter 6 ( see section 6.5.1 ) strongly suggest that clause interpretation begins as soon as a listener hears the first part of the clause . |
| 6 | A similar example of a type of assimilation that has become fixed is the progressive assimilation of voice with the suffixes and ; when a verb carries a third person singular ‘ -s ’ suffix , or a noun carries an ‘ -s ’ plural suffix or an' — ‘ s ’ possessive suffix , that suffix will be pronounced as if the preceding consonant is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and as if the preceding consonant is lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , thus : |