Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only our wearunders recognize the many roles a man plays . |
| 2 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 3 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |
| 4 | In the latter case a company ( whose business was shipping brokerage ) bought a car for the use of its directors . |
| 5 | In the latter case a trespass is committed even if the structure ( a crane ) was at a height which did not affect the plaintiff 's use of the land ( Anchor Brewhouse Developments Ltd v Berkley House ( Docklands Developments ) Ltd ( 1987 ) 38 BLR 82 ) . |
| 6 | The IRA also claimed responsibility for the killing of two civilians on Jan. 14 and 15 ( in the latter case a Catholic who , the IRA later admitted , had been shot " in error " ) . |
| 7 | In the latter case a set of different brochures would be issued by any single firm . |
| 8 | In the latter case a traveller applied for aircraft tickets and received a letter saying ‘ I have pleasure in confirming the following reservations for you … ’ and giving dates , times and numbers of the flights . |
| 9 | In the latter field a paper on legal aspects of sex and disability can be provided by SPOD ( Committee on Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled ) . |
| 10 | By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) . |
| 11 | They follow an initiative by the Prince of Wales , through Business in the Community , which found that the less capital a company needed to raise , the harder it was to do so on commercial terms . |
| 12 | The less education a woman has , the less important are the delayed costs on later rates of pay of current absence from the labour market , but the higher is the ‘ cost of being female ’ relatively speaking . |
| 13 | First , the dealers ' commission means that the more credit a car buyer takes on , the greater the dealer 's profit . |
| 14 | He is right — the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
| 15 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 16 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 17 | The more ranks a unit has the better its combat result bonus . |
| 18 | The more stars a recipe has , the healthier it is . |
| 19 | The more ideas a sentence contains , the more difficult it becomes to read it . |
| 20 | Paradoxically , the more fuel a star starts off with , the sooner it runs out . |
| 21 | The more sales a dealer produces , the more revered he is by the rest . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) Furthermore , the more cigarettes a woman smokes during pregnancy , the greater the probable reduction in birthweight . |
| 23 | The more information a template file contains the more useful it becomes . |
| 24 | The more foliage a plant has , the better it is at removing pollution . |
| 25 | The more people a man could interest in his quarrel , the more serious it was , the greater the pressure on the other side to reach a settlement and to make peace . |
| 26 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
| 27 | So the greater the risk that another male has inseminated the female , the more trouble a male takes to get her to eject the sperm . |
| 28 | The more partners a man has had , the more likely it is that he will entertain fantasies about people with whom he has not yet had a sexual relationship . |
| 29 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 30 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |