Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at that properly in a minute . |
| 2 | Day 8 Received an order for 20 hang gliders at £400 each together with a cheque for £8,000 . |
| 3 | There is also an organisation chart and you fill in the data form for this rather like a bullet chart in order to create a tree diagrams . |
| 4 | I offer this merely as a piece of information . |
| 5 | I mention this merely in an effort to chase any preconceptions , which may have been created by the opening paragraphs , firmly away . |
| 6 | Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility . |
| 7 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 8 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 9 | He appeared to recognize Stephen as quickly as Stephen recognized him , but the dark wedge face registered this only in a tightening of the mouth and a jerk of the chin . |
| 10 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 11 | This especially at a time when they were earning significant incomes from Blackwomen writers such as Alice Walker and Maya Angelou . |
| 12 | I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ? |
| 13 | The boatman inspected this critically for a moment , but then , unlike Owen , seemed satisfied . |
| 14 | Move right to a corner and climb this steeply to a ledge — belay here . |
| 15 | The cottages vary ( some are cooled by air-conditioning , some just by a fan ) so if you do n't like your first one , ask to see the others . |
| 16 | Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces . |
| 17 | Reports at the Second Annual Congress for Hybridoma Research in Philadelphia suggested ways to ‘ sanitise ’ the antibodies ' manufacture , making this more like a bench process with a reduced need to involve live animals — or even live humans . |
| 18 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 19 | Woodland has , therefore , been managed for a very long time and we shall examine this further in a moment . |
| 20 | The following account will suggest that many such pairs are etymological doublets , and we shall consider this further in an appendix to the chapter . |
| 21 | Although it is not possible to translate this directly into a success rate for the pupils in this project , an estimate of 40 per cent would be reasonable — about the same as that obtained for the written test items . |
| 22 | Suddenly he shoved this aside with a groan , snatched up a clean sheet of paper , he wrote : |
| 23 | In his early days with Norwich he took ‘ stick ’ from fellow players and the opposition , but reflected on this favourably in a way which says much of himself and of other successful black sportsmen . |
| 24 | However , after several years of poor livestock production , a record 24,500,000 head were reported in 1989 ; the government attributed this partly to a contract and leasing system introduced in 1988 [ see also p. 36704 ] , by which rural workers contracted to supply specified products for wages , with their collective or the state farm supplying cattle , implements , machinery and land . |
| 25 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 26 | Townsmen in Cornwall , Carew supposed , ‘ conceive themselves an estranged society from the upland dwellers and carry an emulation against them , as if one member of a body could continue this well without a beholdingness to the rest ’ . |
| 27 | To think about this even for a moment is to see that something is amiss . |
| 28 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 29 | where did you see this then in a magazine or something ? |
| 30 | I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance . |