Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 2 | Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace . |
| 3 | ( a ) Where the judge comes to the conclusion that the prosecution evidence , taken at its highest , is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , it is his duty , upon a submission being made , to stop the case . |
| 4 | If the magistrate concludes , on the evidence before him , that the previous evidence is such that a jury properly directed could not properly convict upon it , then , on the principle stated in Reg. v. Galbraith [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 1039 , he should not commit . |
| 5 | The present rate for the Earth is such that a crater over 10 km diameter is very likely to be produced somewhere on dry land at some time over the next 200 000 years . |
| 6 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |
| 7 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 8 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 9 | There is a phase preceding death — perhaps moments before , perhaps even as much as a year before — when the individual life seems to dissolve and to begin to be absorbed back into the collective life . |
| 10 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 11 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 12 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 13 | Without so much as a glance back to see his reaction to such an abrupt departure , Isabel scurried to the postern , yanked it open , and fled . |
| 14 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 15 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 16 | Their method of working is sympathetic to the environment , but 20th century economic realities have put all but a handful out of business . |
| 17 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 18 | More than a century later the emperor Julian ‘ the Apostate ’ was complaining that the Christians look after ‘ not only their own beggars but ours as well ’ . |
| 19 | No more was heard of the breed , but more than a century later the Devon was very carefully crossed with Indian zebus to contribute to the creation of hot-climate breeds such as the Jamaica Red , the Bravon , the Makaweli and the Santa Gabriela , and it also helped to improve some of the Japanese breeds . |
| 20 | Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City . |
| 21 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 22 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 23 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 25 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 26 | More than a century ago J. S. Mill argued for universal education on moral grounds , holding that it would manifestly increase the general balance of pleasure over pain , happiness over unhappiness . |
| 27 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 28 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 30 | The superior quality of the German workman was being remarked on more than a century ago . |