Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workwise , the day was already a write-off and in any case she was eager to know what the girl had to say . |
| 2 | But there are erm others who , for whom teaching is the major aspect and the major important role that they perceive for themselves erm but there is always a balance and on balance , taken over the whole system , I should think that most people spend fifty or sixty per cent of their time on research . |
| 3 | It was purely accidental , but still a penalty and worth three points as Thomson popped it over . |
| 4 | Though rejected by the army in 1914 on grounds of defective eyesight , Gurney enlisted on 9 February 1915 while still a student and from 25 May 1916 served in France as a private with the 2nd/5th Gloucesters . |
| 5 | Most of us defecate once a day and at a convenient time . |
| 6 | A piano bar is open once a week and in front of the hotel is a pool and sun terrace . |
| 7 | The strength of their conviction both in the inevitability of elites and in the certainty of their own demonstration is both a limitation and on occasion a source of penetrating insights . |
| 8 | If you are equally worried about giving birth in both a hospital and at home you might prefer something in the middle : Some hospitals allow women to use water pools in the labour ward and you can arrange for your GP to help with the birth rather than hospital doctors . |
| 9 | But in between these new feelings there was a gap of nearly a year and in that time something so terrible had happened . |
| 10 | That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population . |
| 11 | It was a very ordinary , rather pleasant , Highland country house ; originally a shooting-lodge and of no great size or importance for the day when it was built . |
| 12 | What , if any , additional accounts need to be opened in the second year to cope with the fact that the business is now a partnership and for what reason are they needed ? |
| 13 | Thirdly , direct royal taxes were levied more frequently than ever before , often overlapping with papal dues , and sometimes occurring twice a year and at unprecedented rates , not just a fifth instead of a tenth , but in 1294 a half ! |
| 14 | In the whole garden , and not just , and plus a river running through to , to the , to the north side , and it is difficult , and it is quite a problem and to , to , to say that this is not necessary , is undoubtedly ridiculous . |
| 15 | To offer such intercession is considered at least a presumption and at worst occultist , using the magic of candles . |
| 16 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 17 | Actor and acted-upon were either human ( e.g. , a girl , a milkman ) , animal ( e.g. a cow , a horse ) or inanimate ( e.g. a bicycle , a ball ) and the depicted action involved either an actor and acted-upon of the same class ( e.g. two humans ) or a different class ( e.g. a human and an animal ) . |