Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] 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 | He is right — the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 6 | The more ranks a unit has the better its combat result bonus . |
| 7 | The more stars a recipe has , the healthier it is . |
| 8 | The more ideas a sentence contains , the more difficult it becomes to read it . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Furthermore , the more cigarettes a woman smokes during pregnancy , the greater the probable reduction in birthweight . |
| 10 | The more animals a household is obliged to sacrifice , the greater has been its misfortune . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive . |
| 14 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 15 | My answer again is practical and comes from a further eight 30 min lessons given to the same children a year later . |
| 16 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 17 | And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses . |
| 18 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 19 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 20 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 21 | Thus , if the goal is for your dog to eat in the car rather than the kitchen , in preparation for a long journey , move its dish a few inches a day towards the car , and then into the car . |
| 22 | Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims . |
| 23 | So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time . |
| 24 | There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month . |
| 25 | A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens . |
| 26 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 27 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
| 28 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 29 | AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day . |
| 30 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |