Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 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 .
7 Jack Nicholson copes well with the challenge of playing down a down and out with a drink problem as well as a guilt complex .
8 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 .
9 Constitutionally disinclined to surrender preferment , being , as he once observed , ‘ of a modest if not of a retiring disposition ’ , he remained librarian until 1952 .
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