Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to this and partially as a result of it , there is little in the way of national planning ’ . |
| 2 | The Faculty Office or the Schools Liaison Office will be pleased to advise on this and also upon an appropriate choice of sixth year subjects , particularly where students have marginally failed to meet the entry requirements at the first sitting of Highers . |
| 3 | He was rewarded for this and more with a Bulgarian sentence of death and a British MBE . |
| 4 | Cases may be transferred from one family proceedings court to another and also to a county court care centre and ultimately the High Court in certain circumstances . |
| 5 | However , while we all have our national stereotypes , and they are invariably supported by research ( see Hofstede ) , the underlying differences from one country to another and also within a country are much more subtle . |
| 6 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 7 | Radishes : best sown little and often as a catch crop among other vegetables . |
| 8 | Let me just give you a little illustration that might help , you know in thinking of the erm the fusion of the divinity , the divine nature and the human nature , erm is it Clarke Kent , is that the guys name on television , you know the character , you know the guy that walks around you know he 's the boy next door type figure with glasses and all the rest of it , he 's no macho figure that and then in a transformation take place and woof goes flying through the air does n't he , what is he , he 's Batman is n't he |
| 9 | That because I 've used those before not for golfing or anything like that but just as a general map of reference or |
| 10 | And would they still get the income support after that but still at a reduced rate or not ? |
| 11 | And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation . |
| 12 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 13 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 14 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 15 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 16 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 17 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 18 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 19 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 20 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 21 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 22 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 23 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 24 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 25 | At the same time , at the level of practical pedagogy , there is a counter-tendency in the study of the national canon to concentrate more and more on a small and diminishing number of texts . |
| 26 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 27 | John Smith sounds more and more like a left-of-centre Conservative minister . |
| 28 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 29 | I had told her that Ivy had had luncheon with Olivia Manning , and had written : ‘ She is always the same and always in a circle of the lettered . |
| 30 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |