Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not simply a resurrection in people 's minds — I might well grant that but a resurrection as an objective fact of history , so that it could be said that the causal nexus of history and that of nature were broken ( for there are not resurrections ) . |
| 2 | It was run then by Henry Thomas , who owned this and a number of other local mills . |
| 3 | Few had considered this and a number who had previously chosen evenings changed their answers after reflecting on this follow-up question . |
| 4 | I reckon that high interest rates , falling stock and asset values together with mounting unemployment makes the kill all but a certainty . |
| 5 | A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in loan notes of the bidder . |
| 6 | A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in shares of the bidder . |
| 7 | He failed to do this and a thief ( third party ) entered the house and stole property belonging to the plaintiff . |
| 8 | Erm recognized those and a couple of other things . |
| 9 | Until recently , the ascribed status of blacks in the USA blocked all but a handful from political office and highly rewarded occupations . |
| 10 | And while the recession has deterred all but a handful of non-Italian dealers from participating this year , the organisers are hoping that by aiming high in all senses , the event will rapidly establish itself as a rival to the Florence fair . |
| 11 | Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ? |
| 12 | The bedroom contained little but a bed , a trunk and an old photograph of Celia . |
| 13 | So what does that 's when you start thinking about half of a quarter it gets very confusing what do you mean do you mean half or a quarter ? |
| 14 | With Oliver Cromwell 's approval he took his seat on 7 February , bringing his legal and administrative experience to the task , and he attended all but a handful of recorded meetings between 7 February and 5 December . |
| 15 | Well if , if you remember we , we agreed with Keith he would have a think that and a talk |
| 16 | The silly thing is there is no divide on here and the only thing I can suggest really , there is a divide symbol in the computer that we can drag out but to drag it out every time it 's too boring really so I 'll think we use this I do n't like using this , but you see this symbol here , that 's what they really use for divide , so if you do that and a couple spaces , people will learn that that means divide , it 's all we can do really |
| 17 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 18 | Apart from the time Gould would have spent stalking , shooting , skinning , and preparing these and a host of other birds , there would have been no possibility of him visiting all these different localities and reaching the west bend of the Murray . |
| 19 | So if your car has depreciated in value since you bought it … the loss could be yours and , unless you have a no claims protection policy , you may find that you could lose all or a part of your no claims bonus — check with your insurance company . |
| 20 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 21 | Mountain rescue and medical treatment arrangements vary from country to country and walkers may be liable to pay all or a portion of costs . |
| 22 | If anything , his face was even more horrific , lacking as it did all but a travesty of humanity ; despite his animation , it still most resembled a helmet , a metal helmet with visor down , roughly shaped to conform to the outlines of a human face . |
| 23 | Their method of working is sympathetic to the environment , but 20th century economic realities have put all but a handful out of business . |
| 24 | If you are working , then how about looking for a job that pays more or a job that pays the same but reduces your travelling costs ? |
| 25 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 26 | The mechanisms to achieve this and an assessment of the errors involved are documented , together with an explanation of new and promising possibilities to relate polling districts and enumeration districts that can exploit the increased use of postcodes by the 1991 census . |
| 27 | A dose of 20 per cent less than the LD 50 will kill few and a dose of 20 per cent more will kill over 90 per cent ’ . |
| 28 | But Dr Kitzinger believes all but a handful are true . |
| 29 | Then , to build upon that simple , flat definition of the hedge 's shape , pastel No. 199 , black , was scribbled across the same area , covering all but a strip at the top with an irregular criss-crossing scrawl . |