Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Process is the word used to describe how someone or a group is tackling a task . |
| 2 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 3 | It may be that we have upset someone and a rift exists . |
| 4 | erm and there was nothing that a Member of Parliament could do , this is the trouble I mean it , it with everybody was saying you should of contacted us before it went |
| 5 | Yes , there is nothing wrong with you , nothing that a rest can not cure . |
| 6 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 7 | It 's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline would n't cure . |
| 8 | It may be argued that such distinctions between what machines can do and what only humans can do are of merely temporary interest , since in principle there is nothing that a human can do that a machine might not be devised , some day , to do . |
| 9 | see if it 's a vent or summat or a piece of plastic . |
| 10 | It helps nobody if a law is seen to create myths — Contract Journal . |
| 11 | Want to let somebody and a body wo n't let |
| 12 | Stop , start somebody and a body wo n't let you |
| 13 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 14 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 15 | She said nothing and a moment or two of silence fell on them like one of the Moor 's deadly mists . |
| 16 | Expertise and experience count for nothing if a fighter is n't mentally prepared before he enters the ring . |
| 17 | Why have the Government learnt nothing from the experience , and why are they proposing to do nothing if a crisis emerges shortly , as it could ? |
| 18 | They were advised in 1743 : You can not expect to marry in such a manner as neither of you shall have occasion to work , and none but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing towards it herself . |
| 19 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 20 | The girl in the chapter was under-age , but the sex was so ambiguous and romantic that none but a prude could find it objectionable . |
| 21 | YOU AI N'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG ! |
| 22 | when its like that it tries and pulls you down , and this is why there was an accident with a Wessex or something or a Sea King a while ago , where three or four people died , cos it just did n't get enough height and as , as it got to the top it just pulled it straight down to the ground , it could n't , it did n't have enough height to clear the circle |
| 23 | Well you know where Penny 's old desk were , where she sat looking up towards the , and Jenny sat there and Joan sat there , this Janet was sitting there and on that Friday morning when the phone had rung , well I got up and I went to go upstairs to take something or a fax coming for me or something , and as I went past Lynnette hit me on my shoulder and she said it 's me Pat , Pat she said it 's me , oh Pat I said what 's , what 's going on ? |
| 24 | There are roughly three kinds all of which can use one or a mixture of dance styles . |
| 25 | There are a number of strategies at your disposal and you can use one or a mixture of them to help you over an unexpected hurdle . |
| 26 | Normally intended for Honours graduates in an appropriate subject who wish to study one or a combination of two of the following subjects in a Scottish context : traditional tales and songs ; ethnomusicology ; social life and history ; custom and belief ; material culture ; place-names . |
| 27 | After sending in a tape , with a biography , contact address and a photo , a useful approach can be to update the A&R department every time your band does one or a series of gigs. send in a sheet of paper personally addressed to your target A&R person . |
| 28 | There are two sides to any remedy , whether it be a homoeopathic one or a Bach flower one — the positive and the negative aspects . |
| 29 | For a corporation like Unilever , which has a number of companies in its overall control , the boundary may be defined to include one or a number of these companies . |
| 30 | See which come along first , a red one or a blue ? |