Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 2 | Where perhaps a defendant has been a passenger and is not accused of reckless driving . |
| 3 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 4 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 5 | It should never be taken hastily or immediately a crisis arises in the life of an elderly person , such as bereavement or a sudden illness or depression , for grief usually passes to some extent after a period of supported mourning . |
| 6 | Thus , if a trustee of a family trust or a nominee or bare trustee or even an agent receives rent there can be a liability to income tax on him ( normally just at the basic rate but sometimes at the additional rate ) . |
| 7 | To the extent that people are prepared to accept that there is a crisis of capitalism there is a great tendency to see the problem as comparable to a machine breaking down ; either there is not enough oil , or else a part needs to be replaced or else some bolt needs to be tightened . |
| 8 | Or likewise an introvert does n't necessarily mean it 's a person who does n't talk to anybody who keeps themselves to themselves and is a miserable , it 's not like that at all . |
| 9 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 10 | Having been involved in a substantial amount of this sort of work for 15 years , I believe it is correct to aver that once a person reaches 60 there is an unwritten rule or convention which determines that he or she shall not receive a first appointment . |
| 11 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |
| 12 | What this entails is that once a charge becomes enforceable , the chargee may thereupon take whatever steps are available to enforce the charge since English law places no significant impediments in the way of the right of enforcement of a charge . |
| 13 | That 's why I 'm glad that WISE thing , I mean it 's about time they bloody realized — I 'm convinced that once a woman gets into science she 's just as good as if not better than , any man . |
| 14 | She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for . |
| 15 | Finally , there is the danger that once an organisation disbands its own workforce it may be exploited by monopolistic outside suppliers . |
| 16 | When this process becomes revolutionary upheaval is not always easy to identify and the decision as to whether it was a radical reinterpretation rather than simply an adjustment depends on the observer 's standpoint . |
| 17 | So erm , it it 's important to remember that Freud 's theory explains both of these tendencies and both the tendency for the group to make people better than they might normally be , but also that the tendency for the group perhaps to make them worse and of course either can happen and presumably a lot depends on the , on the leader , the leader or whoever is playing the , the leadership function presumably has erm some responsibility for this . |
| 18 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 19 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 20 | Very few writers , in Cusick 's experience , do much in the way of scene setting , and so a lot has to come from reading the dialogue and forming impressions in the mind . |
| 21 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 22 | [ Liverpool 's ] great stations — Lime Street , the Central and the Exchange — are centres of bustling life , of passengers coming and going ; and scarcely a day passes without the reminder that the city by the Mersey is not only English but the Continental portal to the New World . |
| 23 | Only one shower for the whole crew today , and just a curtain divides us from Pearl Jam . |
| 24 | The examination is a collection of questions and individually a question goes some way to satisfying the requirements of the examination . |
| 25 | His heart beats faster and once a trembling goes through his slender body like unbearable expectation . |
| 26 | The purchaser hopes that if ever a court considers any one level of protection to be unreasonable , it may sever this from the agreement and leave the other covenants untouched or impose a more reasonable amended form . |
| 27 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 28 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 29 | If ever a man deserves an honour from his country , it 's this man . ’ |
| 30 | And , if ever a subject needs intelligibility , it is race . |