Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Most young children luckily will respond to the authority of a stranger and so the task is not as daunting as it sounds .
2 While some studies indicate a direct or indeed no relation between the serum cholesterol concentration and large bowel cancer , others indicate an inverse relation .
3 Its system of rebates , discounts and exemptions , and the fact that it is partly a personal and partly a property tax certainly guarantee complexity with necessarily guaranteeing collectability .
4 In no manner does the birth of this child put the other out of my mind nor can I accept he is a substitute but rather a reminder as if God wished to show me what I have lost and reprimand me for my carelessness .
5 Denys Zacharopoulos , one of its three curators , says : ‘ The museum is like a voodoo fetish , the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner
6 So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible .
7 RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool .
8 You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism .
9 Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience .
10 The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain .
11 From his earliest experience of Parliament , where he sat , as a commoner and then a peer , from 1689 until his death ( with one short interval in 1698–9 ) , he ‘ always made an agreeable figure ’ without ever establishing a reputation as an orator .
12 So the forward , function is Y equals X squared , which always gives you a positive and then the function comes back , it 's coming back that way ,
13 Species of Inga ( Leguminosae ) with them on their rachis have herbivore damage reduced by a third or even a half .
14 Dario Carella was n't a relative or even a friend .
15 When contracts were exchanged , the conditions of sale would stipulate the time for the delivery of an abstract and thereafter the time for the raising of requisitions upon it .
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