Example sentences of "[indef pn] [coord] 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 | see if it 's a vent or summat or a piece of plastic . |
| 5 | Want to let somebody and a body wo n't let |
| 6 | Stop , start somebody and a body wo n't let you |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 9 | She said nothing and a moment or two of silence fell on them like one of the Moor 's deadly mists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | YOU AI N'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG ! |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | There are roughly three kinds all of which can use one or a mixture of dance styles . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There are two sides to any remedy , whether it be a homoeopathic one or a Bach flower one — the positive and the negative aspects . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | See which come along first , a red one or a blue ? |
| 23 | But size is n't everything and a quality performance from Henry Cecil 's colt — or any other runner — would go a long way towards salvaging the historic event 's ailing reputation . |
| 24 | Transgressive reinscription : a turning back upon something and a perverting of it typically it not exclusively through inversion and displacement . |
| 25 | Yeah , a couple for each and a , and a , and a chocolate biscuit or something and a drink of milk . |
| 26 | ‘ On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism , I 'd say that I occupy a midway position ’ , explains Roth in The Facts — in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books , the novelist Nathan Zuckerman , who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative . |
| 27 | There was scaffolding up outside this particular one and a pair of rugged , manly types were bolting a large sign into place . |
| 28 | If you are wondering , for instance , why The Instant Calorie and Fibre Chart lists only three quarters of an ounce of shredded wheat and then an ounce or more of other cereals , ask yourself whether you have ever seen anyone eat one and a quarter , or perhaps one and one third , shredded wheats … |
| 29 | All around there is a buzz of nervous tension as everyone present prepares for the next one and a quarter hour 's worth of pure adrenalin flow . |
| 30 | During the nineteenth century , another thirteen hundred acts and awards brought , or attempted to bring , another one and a quarter million acres of heath and moor and commons under cultivation . |