Example sentences of "[det] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 2 | To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module 's approval . |
| 3 | Under this a corporation could be required to , say , build a new hospital , or pay for a motorway , school , nursery , or library . |
| 4 | Now equations ( 9.92 ) and ( 9.93 ) show that an open or short-circuited line of length less than half a wavelength can provide any desired reactance or susceptance . |
| 5 | ‘ I often advise women that an extra half a stone will benefit their hair , ’ says Glenn . |
| 6 | spotting a narrow isthmus on the map near Northton we opted for a large portage ; half a kilometre would be a long way but , following our Griminish Point experience , the safer option seemed favourable . |
| 7 | I often wonder about this er a demijohn would imply that 's half a john would n't it ? |
| 8 | Without some clear thinking about what Europeans and Americans still need from one another , the transatlantic partnership that has kept Europe safe for half a century will break apart . |
| 9 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , half a bitter would be fine . ’ |
| 11 | Any judge with even half a brain would surely concede that however inappropriately the Duchess of York might have behaved in the past year , even she has yet to acquire such a proven track record on rearing maladjusted children as Her Majesty the Queen . |
| 12 | ‘ But you make me so angry , ’ she said on a short laugh , ‘ when anyone with half a brain can see what is going on ! ’ |
| 13 | At the end of a short service of prayer , she wanted to know why half a lady should want to materialise in her kitchen . |
| 14 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 15 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 16 | Er , half a pound will do , no give me a pound , I 'll put them in the freezer and |
| 17 | Half a sale would pay |
| 18 | you ca n't sink half a ship can you ? |
| 19 | Oh you 'll want half a tin wo n't you ? |
| 20 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 21 | If some components have to be physically larger than the space provided or require other " upstream " or " downstream " components to be modified as well , then the consequences of pursuing such a concept must be similarly recognized at an early stage . |
| 22 | Such a trial would be unethical , however , given the unfavourable risk/benefit ratio of cyclosporin treatment in this setting . |
| 23 | There are virtually no placebo controlled trials of acute relapse of extensive ulcerative colitis with which to compare these results , and such a trial would be unethical . |
| 24 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 25 | 1.43 It was said in Coenen v Payne [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 984 ( which was a defendant 's application for a split trial ) that such a trial will be ordered whenever it is just and convenient , and not only in difficult and unusual cases , and in Ashworth v Berkeley Walbrood ( 1984 ) The Times , 13 July that the court can be asked to try a preliminary issue whenever there is a real probability that the effect will be to save time and expense and simplify the issues , which need not be limited to questions of law . |
| 26 | But there are several billion people in the world to whom such a coincidence could happen , so the apparent coincidence is actually not as great as it seems . |
| 27 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 28 | Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about . |
| 29 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
| 30 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |