Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In some cities a relative plethora of doctors and rapid urbanisation have led to a boom in private medical practice , which now provides a substantial amount of curative care for the inhabitants , including the poor ( p 673 ) .
2 Some times a whole period is spent looking at a ladybird .
3 After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away .
4 After a few minutes a little flame blossomed at the far corner .
5 Every few minutes a fresh fusillade of whirring bombs hurtles downwards to smash into the debris below , compelling the observer to stop walking idly around and take cover .
6 In some cases a pre-existing centre , which already possessed an economic role , will have been incorporated into the new system and perhaps attracted other functions as well .
7 In some cases a Stipendiary Magistrate sits .
8 Second , in many communities where it was treasured at the most sophisticated level it was an exotic , even in some cases a mysterious substance , only to be secured from a distance .
9 There is no future in raising subscriptions to a point where we are faced with a genuine reluctance , and in some cases a real inability , to pay .
10 Therefore one major trend in rural public transport studies has been a move away from ‘ behavioural ’ to ‘ need ’ studies and in some cases a joint approach .
11 They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission .
12 Neighbours who were unwary enough to let the Misses Lovelock look after the chickens in their absence rarely found any eggs awaiting them on their return , and in some cases a plump chicken had died .
13 It is now common for printers , particularly quick print outlets to employ an artist or in some cases a creative team .
14 Partly in response to these feelings , the planners generally showed great interest in , and in some cases a considerable amount of use of , the online information services .
15 In some cases a single aerial serves a block of flats or a valley area where off-air reception is poor .
16 I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes .
17 After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder .
18 And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well .
19 If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs .
20 ‘ Reading Primo Levi ’ is in some respects a strong essay .
21 Yet what had previously been an alternative tendency within the general social order , and in some respects a central tendency within the rising industrial bourgeoisie , was now , in this crisis , shifted into an oppositional tendency .
22 I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside .
23 Under Ordinance 12 of 1840 forest land was declared the property of the Crown , and in some districts a large proportion of it was sold for plantation development .
24 The matter of sexually abusive language in texts is in some senses a separate issue .
25 In some countries a large majority of the electorate do not even exercise the right to vote .
26 In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) .
27 In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch .
28 Under some circumstances a face-to-face interaction is preferred but , in others , for a variety of different reasons , the individual may prefer to conduct his transaction in writing .
29 ( a ) Specializing , as in the cases of sustaining or promoting work in a particular medium or branch of an art , and in some circumstances a particular style ;
30 In some circumstances a hand-held urinal or a commode may make life easier .
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