Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I needed some valerian tea ; either that or a monster Manhattan . |
| 2 | Either that or a swimming party or |
| 3 | Pulling on a pair of ‘ Afro-American tribal dance boots ’ ( ie Nikes ) to complement his khaki tie-dye T-shirt and army trousers : ‘ It was a toss-up between this and a shell suit . |
| 4 | All this and a war hero to boot . |
| 5 | What is this but a textbook account of the absent father 's alarming return to the household — the return from the war , from business , from abroad , from philandering , from danger ? |
| 6 | If LIFESPAN does not find the QAO log file it will create another when a QAO log is actioned for the module . |
| 7 | In yet other cases a high-quality plotter-drawn product may not be required , either because the nature of the task is such that a draft product is sufficient or because the cost of producing the required number of plotter-drawn maps would be prohibitive . |
| 8 | Some Australian languages even have " triangular " kin terms , such that a term X denoting an individual x is only usable if x is ( say ) the speaker 's father and the addressee 's grandfather , Such suppletive sets of terms therefore encode person-deictic features in what are essentially terms for reference , not address ( see Heath et al. , 1982 ) . |
| 9 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , in their rush they were disinclined to hump mounds of electrical equipment into the west with them , and would now find themselves without so much as a guitar string to their name , were it not for the warm-hearted generosity of the British thrash metal community . |
| 11 | If television washes over innocence without leaving so much as a water mark , why bother ‘ exercising control ’ ? |
| 12 | For large areas there is not so much as a pebble bed to make one stumble in the climb up the column . |
| 13 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 14 | I use my own life history very much as a case study — not to privilege my chronic disability or my particular set of life events . |
| 15 | To disappear without so much as a phone call or a postcard for three years and then breeze back down the path from the town and across the bridge-rubber handlebars just clearing the sides and no more — carrying somebody else 's baby or babies and expecting to be housed , fed , nursed and delivered by my father was a little presumptuous . |
| 16 | Grouping children was an organizational device as much as a teaching approach , a way of maximizing the opportunities for productive teacher-child interaction as well as a means of encouraging cooperation among the children and flexibility in curriculum . |
| 17 | Yields on well-let properties , even in the glutted City of London office market , have fallen by as much as a percentage point over the past six months . |
| 18 | Now the Brentnall Street premises the club 's fourth headquarters do n't have so much as a bike stand . |
| 19 | Not bad for a car which weighs as much as a Range Rover . |
| 20 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 21 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 22 | And he will require , in order to do that , to be a time traveller into the past as much as a science fiction writer would have to be a time traveller into the future . |
| 23 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 24 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 25 | I would not rest easy knowing Araminta would see you off without so much as a penny piece the moment I breathe my last . ’ |
| 26 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 27 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 28 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 29 | Not so much as a sociology essay , or an urban character sketch in London 's Evening Standard . |
| 30 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |