Example sentences of "a [noun] [modal v] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance in setting a pamphlet or a book , a half-page would count the same as a full page . |
| 2 | In theory a statute could do no more than declare existing law ; and statutes were cast in a declaratory form . |
| 3 | However , it seems that the relation is not quite the same , for there is no comparable way in which a hearer can express the same wonder or wish by assenting to the sentence as uttered by the speaker . |
| 4 | It also excluded the cost of elections , for these were a financial problem for the candidate , not for the local association ; in a large county division an election could cost as much as £2,000 , and even an unopposed return in a borough would cost a few hundred pounds to the lucky winner . |
| 5 | It is hard to see what sense there is in , for example , assuming that individuals without a car ought to have the same utilisation of services wherever they live . |
| 6 | A marriage can do the same , provided the couple are prepared to talk things through and really want to make a go of it . |
| 7 | We do it when we decide that the sibling rule — that a child can attend the same school as a brother or sister — does not apply ( the assumption here must surely be that siblings can belong to different species ) . |
| 8 | Even though the cooperative production approach is dissimilar from orthodox business methods , a cooperative must have the same entrepreneurial freedom as an orthodox business enterprise . |
| 9 | You know , a dog , when it 's confronted with danger it can , it can fight it 's way out a cat will do the same , every other creature will , will do something when it 's confronted with danger a se , a sheep is so intelligent and is so strong and is , has such a er , a self- preservation er er er |
| 10 | At present English procedure only permits representative actions , whereby members of a group must have the same interest in the same proceedings ; the action can not seek damages , but only some other form of relief . |
| 11 | Such a process will require the same form of periodic review mentioned with regard to Principle 5 . |
| 12 | A combine would do the same job in an hour . |
| 13 | At present a person can take a few driving lessons and pass a driving test and he is then free to purchase any type of car they can afford , regardless of how powerful that car is . |
| 14 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 15 | A Giant will have the same effect on your enemy as a big monster . |
| 16 | The transition from glass to crystals in a basalt may cover a few centimetres , but in andesites and rhyolites it is much broader , and large thicknesses of glass may be present . |
| 17 | Given that such an employee would face dismissal if that were proven , a company should face no less than severe curtailment of its operations across the North sea . |
| 18 | Destroying them in a brain might do the same . |
| 19 | A factory might manage a few thousand kinds of parts ; the air force has to cope with over 6m . |
| 20 | Each curtain of a pair should have the same number of pleats . |
| 21 | This is the occasion when a reader can visit the same show and make a personal assessment of how helpful the art critic has been . |
| 22 | It could mean that a claimant would be uncertain as to whether , on a rational basis test , an authority would apply the same meaning to a term that it had used previously , or whether it would adopt a different interpretation . |
| 23 | An observer would follow the same procedure in judging the traveller 's choice right or wrong and in predicting that choice , except that in the former case the question is how the traveller would react in fullest awareness , in the latter how he will react in his actual awareness . |
| 24 | However , critics point to the regressive nature of the community charge — apart from specified categories who will receive exemption or discounts ( for example , students ) everyone in an area will pay the same regardless of income — and the difficulties and expense of administration and collection . |