Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] a [noun sg] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 2 | In such cases , support and counselling for the parents and child will help in managing the situation or minimising its effect ; it may take hard work and not a little courage to help a resisting parent to recognise his or her element of incestuous involvement , but such a course can pay dividends in terms of family stability . |
| 3 | It is customary to divide the Council into a ‘ conservative ’ minority and a ‘ progressive ’ majority , but such a description can be profoundly misleading . |
| 4 | But such a phenomenon can not be explained by recourse to general principles of ‘ bureaucratization ’ or administrative expansion . |
| 5 | Sometimes an intentionally condensed presentation ( e.g. Section 17.5 ) may ‘ make the reader think ’ , but such a tactic can be dangerously optimistic . |
| 6 | Only about 40 per cent of the electorate vote in local elections ( the turnout in the 1985 English shire county elections , for example , was 41 per cent ) but such a figure can be highly misleading . |
| 7 | But such a statement can be easily misunderstood if taken out of context . |
| 8 | But such a form can also be anticipated from the pattern of deposition of tephra as an ash cloud spreads out from the summit crater during an eruption over a wedge-shaped sector of the cone , the rate of ash fall-out being the reciprocal of the distance from the vent . |
| 9 | But such a status can hardly work ’ ( 1983 : 52 ) . |