Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move up to verse can be made for the exit of a person from a lower but also for the entrance of one from a higher rank . |
| 2 | Oh there was quite a few and then on the other side there was er , the old reading room where the erm er , building society is it now , what 's there ? |
| 3 | When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency . |
| 4 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
| 5 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 6 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 7 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 8 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 9 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 10 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 11 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 12 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
| 13 | But in the gravel , the eggs remain , a thousand or so from every female . |
| 14 | and what that means that if an organization which has not sponsored something in the arts before decides to do so the government will give a similar amount of money er at a lower ceiling of a thousand and up to a maximum of forty thousand was it ? |
| 15 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 16 | Jack Nicholson copes well with the challenge of playing down a down and out with a drink problem as well as a guilt complex . |
| 17 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
| 18 | Constitutionally disinclined to surrender preferment , being , as he once observed , ‘ of a modest if not of a retiring disposition ’ , he remained librarian until 1952 . |
| 19 | Presumably a twelfth or so of the population are Leos , and they are n't all self-opinionated , domineering , power-mad — ’ |