Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 2 | So would a real party frock , but do find out whether this should be a full-skirted dance dress or a skimpy lurex shift . |
| 3 | But that would be a plausible prediction only for members of a constant and self-conscious majority of opinion , and if such a majority existed so would a self-conscious minority that would have the opposite opinion . |
| 4 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 5 | And so will a hundred others from hereabouts . |
| 6 | Not only will a significant proportion of information be accessible commercially via the computer but the next generation will also be inputing and retrieving a substantial proportion of its own information via the computer . |
| 7 | So not only can a back bencher shout the odds for the fur trade , the police , the bookies or whoever in exchange for money but worse , the chairman of the Home Affairs Committee can be on the payroll of a private security firm without anyone thinking there might be the tiniest conflict . |
| 8 | Thus can a minuscule particle tip the scales one way or another . |
| 9 | So how far do you actually want God to forgive you up to three times and then no more you know it 's it 's that kind of er question that we 're asking and that we that I feel that is something we should be thinking about that how far should a Christian go in forgiving . |
| 10 | This is not , as Young ( 1981 : 328 ) asserts , because they are ‘ well calculated to be ineffective ’ , but rather because they have not been framed with a crucial issue in mind — how far can a national state regulatory agency effect the operations of a transnational corporation , particularly when its parental state is one of the two world imperialist powers ? |
| 11 | Rarely will a formal dissolution of the firm be a more acceptable method of disassociation from a miscreant partner . |
| 12 | However , if collocations like ’ weak tea ’ and ’ powerful car ’ are so numerous as to evade any method of acquisition other than years of learning , how then should a machine-readable collocation dictionary be compiled ? |
| 13 | Yet would a white child born into the same conditions as the most disadvantaged inner-city black ( to a drug-taking , teenage , single mother , say ) be more likely to succeed than a black ? |
| 14 | A second Tiphys shall then arise , and a second Argo to carry chosen heroes ; a second warfare , too , there shall be , and again shall a great Achilles be sent to Troy . ’ |
| 15 | And although pets are not allowed , guide dogs are , because of course how else would a blind person see the Grand Canyon ? |
| 16 | For where else would a hellish mind go after death , than to a continued experience of its own hellish thoughts and dreams ? |
| 17 | Over 2,000 plants which are being investigated for their anti-cancer properties come from the rainforests — as more rainforests disappear , so too might a possible cure for diseases such as Aids . |
| 18 | Where else therefore could a small scholarship be more usefully bestowed than in a manner which would , as Kinnoull indicated , ‘ much oblige Lady Findlater , & many other friends ’ , while conferring a favour upon a grateful man ? |
| 19 | Never shall a young man |