Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he owed it to Lefevre ; better a friend should do it than a semi-stranger like Davout , or even his commanding officer . |
| 2 | When you do your first beat , you 're walking with the sergeant and suddenly a voice will call out , ‘ Where are you going , son ? ’ and you 're about ten yards ahead . |
| 3 | Suddenly a man will see himself as a sexual failure rather than as someone who simply had not been able to achieve an erection on one single occasion . |
| 4 | The aim here is to find out how much a system can do without the benefit of other forms of input . |
| 5 | IT 'S AMAZING how much a government can get away with during an election . |
| 6 | However much a politician might desire to avoid involvement in the collectorship contests , it was virtually impossible to escape being drawn in if the friends were involved . |
| 7 | By studying the enclosed repayment table you can see at a glance how much a loan will cost . |
| 8 | He was still wearing summer clothes and , once back in his room again , the only heat was regulated by how much a tenant could afford to put into the meter — and Freddie was abysmally short of cash . |
| 9 | A cyclist knows , to within 2 or 3 minutes , how long a journey will take . |
| 10 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 11 | No-one can predict how long a person will live . |
| 12 | Too short a list means that the input words will quite often be missed , and too long a list can mean that the list of allowable candidate strings is vast , and will often contain words that most people would not recognise as English words . |
| 13 | They do not know how long a season will last ( in the holidays industry the weather plays an important part ) , how long a permanent member of staff on long-term sick leave will be away , or how long an exceptional surge in demand will last . |
| 14 | In the absence of some specification which states how long a product should last under normal use without manifesting defects ( whether or not due to normal wear and tear ) , the parties have to resort to the express or implied warranties of merchantable quality , or the express or implied rights of rejection . |
| 15 | Now if that is correct perhaps a minister could say so and clear in explicit terms er because it is very , very important because increasingly er a number of firms act in er in er in in both capacities and indeed for the large firms I think many of us are aware of the difficulty that 's now arising and there are only half a dozen very large accountancy firms that are capable of providing accounting and auditing services in this country and indeed most of them are beneficiaries of this government 's largesse in awarding public service contracts er to a surprising degree and so the government will be well aware of the problem . |
| 16 | If ordinary people are to have justice , perhaps a jury should find whether somebody is guilty of libel , but these £250,000 and £500,000 judgments are not justice but folly . |
| 17 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 18 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 19 | Well do you know sometimes I 'd taken it through and perhaps a train would come in , a London train would come in and people were crowding through . |
| 20 | Fixed-dose syringes can be very useful , and perhaps a relative can draw up the insulin and the patient administer it . |
| 21 | Perhaps a colleague will convey my remarks to him . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything 's very strange down here , so perhaps a mouse can talk . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps a dog could save his master . |
| 24 | Forest , who knocked Spurs out of the Coca-Cola Cup , have not lost at White Hart Lane for seven years and perhaps a draw would have been a fair result . |
| 25 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 26 | The analogy is clear : just as a referee is necessary to interpret the rules , so a Chairman must guide a meeting . |
| 27 | Just as individuals need to take stock at this stage , in order to lay the ghosts of the past , grapple with the present and set new goals for the future , so a couple may need to reappraise their marriage in those same areas . |
| 28 | In fact , a four day stay at that hotel costs only £240 , so a couple would save £132 by booking with Clydesdale — nothing like the saving they claim . |
| 29 | So a Court would consist of three Magistrates , one of whom sits in the centre and acts as Chairman |
| 30 | I 'll have a salad , I 'm not bothered , I 'm saying I 'm not that hungry so a salad would go down nicely . |