Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only may a campaign raise public awareness of the issues involved and win you new supporters , but the sheer relentlessness of pressure and eventual embarrassment at being seen to do nothing may also prompt parliament or Government to introduce new policies . |
| 2 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 3 | So must a butterfly feel as it rose towards the sun , so must a bumble bee feel as it slipped from nectar.filled flower to flower , so must Matthew 's foal as it gambolled beside its mother . |
| 4 | So should a school like this one equip for the realities of unforgiveness of the world outside , or should it be much more generous in the way it shows forgiveness and can a school be organised so that it does actually reflect Christ 's teaching on forgiveness . |
| 5 | How long should a patient use a pump ? |
| 6 | Not only might a town look much like any big village , but in some essentials its economy was inseparable from that of its rural hinterland . |
| 7 | Well — if a little squirt of a bower-bird could do it — so could a cassowary ! |
| 8 | Right er from Swanage to Ventnor is thirty two miles so how long would a motor boat take ? |
| 9 | And then how long would a apprenticeship take then ? |
| 10 | Not only would a list of varieties make a book like this out of date in a short time , it would not help you either . |
| 11 | So would a generator . |
| 12 | So would a lot of people to be truthful |
| 13 | It was also pointed out in Committee that , if single pensioners received such a premium , so would a millionaire . |
| 14 | How long shall a group be observed ? |
| 15 | I think it will affect working women , or in fact anybody working , both directly and indirectly , and in fact the whole public indirectly , in that that sort of facility , to be able to shop , as it were , at home , will be extremely convenient and so will a facility that reminds you when things are due — a sort of , you know , household secretary really that can keep a check . |
| 16 | And so will a number of other measures , including new designs and construction for all kinds of incinerators . |
| 17 | That that 'll be enough will a pound bus fare wo n't it ? |
| 18 | How long can a person live without a brain ? |
| 19 | How long can a person go on mint-flavoured sugar ? |
| 20 | Then again , how long can a crisis last while remaining a crisis rather than business as usual ? |
| 21 | It can become academic but so can a lot of our work . |
| 22 | The idea of boredom is not very distressing to us because if we are bored we can usually do something about it , and so can a horse in the wild . |
| 23 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 24 | No longer would a viewer pay for what he/she did not watch or for a service which he/she did not use . |
| 25 | Thus can a man , in three five-minutes sessions , attain a multilateral tan . |
| 26 | No longer can a company survive simply in terms of immediate market pressures but only in terms of an international market place and the general and well distributed creation of wealth . |
| 27 | Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) . |
| 28 | But think of it , emotional charity from a couple of eight-year-olds — how low could a person possibly get ? |
| 29 | Faint-hearted , they took his essays back for remarking and upgraded them , as an airline always will a seat for a vociferous passenger . |
| 30 | What more can a member wish for ? |