Example sentences of "[adj] an [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour will be enough to start with . |
| 2 | He says that somebody who experiences the fire of love will find that he is affected physically : he may find that he develops a stammer and is unable to speak quickly or clearly any more and that his whole body has slowed down : a job that once took half an hour will now take a whole morning . |
| 3 | Norfolk goes on to point out that people who go jogging in the city for half an hour can absorb the , equivalent of 10 to 20 cigarettes ' worth of carbon monoxide ( ‘ Jogging is completely unnecessary , ’ according to cardiologist George Sheenan , who wrote one of the early jogging handbooks , Running And Being . |
| 4 | It was resolved also that half an hour should be occupied each Sunday at the close of the School to teach the children the hymns of the Lancashire Sunday School Hymnbook . |
| 5 | ‘ Anybody with half an eye could tell that . ’ |
| 6 | Ms Wilikins might speak in favour of female emancipation , but as the majority of the representatives were women , too strident an approach would be dangerous . |
| 7 | On 26 September 1985 an investor could have purchased BP shares for 526p ( end of trading mid-price ) and some 6 weeks later on 11 November sold that same share for 560p . |
| 8 | The CIA also added a cautionary reminder that the policies of even so reliable an ally could change unless it was adequately supported and encouraged . |
| 9 | A batch of sheep is loaded , dipped and discharged in about 2 minutes 15–30 seconds , which means up to 300 an hour can be handled . |
| 10 | Independent analysts have estimated that a minimum wage set at three pound forty an hour would add one point eight percent to the total labour costs in Britain . |
| 11 | The introduction of a national mo minimum wage set at three pound forty an hour would directly benefit four point five million workers . |
| 12 | To fall within Article 85 an agreement must have as its effect or object the restriction of competition in the EC or a substantial part of it and there must be effect on trade between Member States . |
| 13 | Defences are provided by s.1(3) ( a ) ( b ) ( c ) and ( d ) , but should they prove unsuccessful an emission will amount to an offence punishable by a fine not exceeding £400 in the case of a private chimney and £2000 in the case of any other chimney . |
| 14 | However , such an orogen may also form a continental-margin island arc if the continental crust behind the arc is below sea level . |
| 15 | There are two ways in which such an adjustment might be achieved . |
| 16 | Sperber and Wilson suggest that the effect achieved by such an utterance can be termed a poetic effect . |
| 17 | Such an individual could choose to ignore conventional time-cues and so cocoon himself in an artificial world in which meals and artificial lighting are adjusted to accord with the dictates of his body clock — like the subject in a cave ( in chapter 2 ) and the opposite of what happens normally , when our life-style adjusts our body clock . |
| 18 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 19 | Such an individual should embody knowledge of cataloguing and indexing rules , at least in the context of a particular research library 's collection , its process of catalogue conversion ; knowledge of data structures , telecommunications and network gateways ; search protocols ; and relevant electronic sources . |
| 20 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 21 | Such an alliance would bring together Congress , the breakaway Socialist Janata Dal run by Chandra Shekhar , and the Janata Dal of V.P. Singh . |
| 22 | All he could see was the shame and disgrace such an alliance would bring on a good Irish family . |
| 23 | Montini agreed with the students that such an alliance could only prove disastrous for the Church , and Rossi resigned as a protest . |
| 24 | Because it may be triggered by the vigorous smaller-scale fluctuations , such an instability will normally occur intermittently . |
| 25 | The problem is to decide what such an influence might be . |
| 26 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 27 | Each orbital has a distinct wave-function , which describes the distribution of an electron occupying the orbital , and an energy which such an electron must possess . |
| 28 | Such an inventory should be compiled by the end of 1992 , to include location , responsible officer , machine specifications ( including add-ons ) , date of purchase , cost , network card address , repair costs and other features . |
| 29 | It was common ground before me that such an assignment can not be a statutory assignment but is equitable only , even when written notice has been given to the debtor bank . |
| 30 | Note that such an attachment may suffice to allow a learner to drive a motor cycle in excess of 250cc . |