Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keynes maintained that such a reduction would lead to a more or less equiproportionate reduction in the general level of prices . |
| 2 | His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work , and recommended its immediate implementation . |
| 3 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 4 | Unless the centre or SCOTVEC identifies a need for an earlier date , a contract will operate for a fixed period , after which a further Quality Audit will take place . |
| 5 | Moreover , a parliament will benefit from a thriving political culture and critical scrutiny and debate in the media and , conversely , suffer from public apathy . |
| 6 | A salesman can go to a customer , write in an order and download it to his company 's main computer at the end of the day . |
| 7 | He was appalled that such a story should appear in a newspaper , and the council , he said , would meet to determine what should be done about it . |
| 8 | Certainly the number of offspring that a male may sire as a result of reciprocating coalitions will be greater than if he did not participate , while his lifespan is probably only slightly affected by such activity . |
| 9 | Similarly , a male may crouch like a female and perform pseudo-female behaviour , being mounted by another tom . |
| 10 | It also lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module . |
| 11 | The following lists the various access rights which a user may have to a module : |
| 12 | It is obvious that a horse will run from a stick , spurs or fear of the rider , but it is hard to accept that he will try to pull on the bit if that very action increases the pain . |
| 13 | Sometimes a term can start as a condition , become a warranty and then revert to a condition . |
| 14 | Sexism is a term used to refer to a whole range of justifications which supposedly make acceptable the inequalities in income , in job statuses , in promotion chances and in access to power , for example , from which women suffer . |
| 15 | In the case of passenger transport undertakings such as railways and airlines which allow free travel to employees the test would provide mind-boggling difficulties of calculation and when the undertaking was running at a loss would result in a charge to tax that exceeded the fare charged to the general public ; this would also be the case where school fees were heavily subsidised by endowments . |
| 16 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 17 | Mrs Geary paused , as a musician might pause for a climax , while the water in her saucepan regained its just heat . |
| 18 | CLEARING up after a volcano may sound like a nightmare , but for one man it was a dream come true . |
| 19 | A pun can act in a similar way to metaphor , pointing to a coalescence of concepts normally distinct . |
| 20 | Lebanese drug traffickers visiting the island to close a deal would check into a hotel like the Palm Beach or the Golden Bay on Dekalia Road , and , on going out to dinner , would find Taxi George at the kerb . |
| 21 | We know that a car will come to a grinding halt if we put water in the petrol tank , so no one in their right mind does it ! |
| 22 | Just as a 16-year-old is different from a 50-year-old , so a 50-year-old will differ from a 90-year-old … and each individual will be different from another . |
| 23 | Even a Gladiator can crack at a moment like that . ’ |
| 24 | FAR RIGHT The gift of reading is one of the most important a parent can give to a child . |
| 25 | A child may appear before a hearing for reasons other than offences ; and he will have a disposal tailored to his needs for care rather than to the seriousness of the offence ; and a child may not only be put under a supervision requirement for reasons other than an offence , but he may remain under such a requirement for a period of years for reasons completely unconnected with breaches of the criminal law . |
| 26 | A child may come before a hearing on an offence referral and be made subject to a supervision requirement for a number of reasons , of which the offence may be only one ; the child may on review be kept subject to a supervision requirement , even though he may have committed no further offences , because of , say , inadequate parental care . |
| 27 | Once again Scott felt that she was asking for something unreasonable , something a child might ask of a parent . |
| 28 | At eleven a child might transfer to a grammar or central ( technical trade ) school or remain in a ‘ reorganised secondary school ’ . |
| 29 | So such a child might say to a carer or someone they trust , ‘ Look after my Mummy and Daddy , please , because they are very upset . |
| 30 | Senator Crowninshield had been sympathetic to the problems a child might have with a famous parent . |