Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal held that the expression " transfer of assets " in TA 1988 , s670 covered such a case and thus the income derived from the assets so transferred was taxed upon the settlor . |
| 3 | Most remarkable was the way in which cat and dog , owl and rat , fox and ferret , pets of all sorts calmly ignored each other throughout , with never a bark and hardly a whine |
| 4 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 5 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 6 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 7 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 8 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 9 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 10 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 11 | Much of what he wrote was , essentially , a defence and even a celebration of ‘ war communism ’ . |
| 12 | And I always look on a writer as only a beginner . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 14 | I 'm going to send it away and y for twenty five points on the back twenty five points you get a silver badge for a beginner and then a gold |
| 15 | Combination techniques comprise a host of different moves , a kick and follow-up punch , for example , or a double-kick and then a punch . |
| 16 | They first had found a foot and then the body of a man , but he was dead . |
| 17 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 18 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 19 | To be late would earn a reprimand and possibly a warning from those who stood above them . |
| 20 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 21 | In fact , he holds a bronze medal , although it could have been a silver or even a gold if a ref in Los Angeles had n't acted too hastily . |
| 22 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 23 | So that 's another situation and as we 'll talk about and I hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this Aldershot method is a way of helping you to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 25 | By totalization , therefore , Sartre does not here mean anything like a predetermined end or final closure of a totality but rather a process of mediation among the parts , where each is determined by the other . |
| 26 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 27 | It may have had to be a lavatory or else the bus on the way home . |
| 28 | It is extraordinary that only last week the Leader of the Opposition confirmed that the Labour party is still wedded to bodies such as the national enterprise board , despite the fact that , of the 102 companies in which that body invested , about 35 went bust , 38 were sold at a loss and only the remainder managed even to return taxpayers ' money . |
| 29 | er if you stick to just just two as a maximum er ah an overhead and a flipchart or maybe a video and an overhead then it actually does n't it really helps not to confuse the audience . |
| 30 | These lies also alter the loft of the club ; a downhill lie will make a 5-iron into a 4-iron or even a 3-iron , whereas an uphill lie makes the club more lofted . |