Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus someone taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision . |
| 2 | If in Orpheus everyone sound just a fraction less involved in the proceedings , this is partly because the music itself elicits a certain degree of emotional detachment . |
| 3 | And that that one holds quite a lot |
| 4 | [ … ] When one looks merely at the situation after the resource has been monopolized by the entrepreneurial skill of the producer , one sees only a monopolist producer — exempt from competition to the extent his resource monopoly permits . |
| 5 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 6 | 4 ) Is the Mercury poster , for which the small print invites one to send away a fiver , washable ? |
| 7 | This one meant either a crawl on my belly beneath a boulder , hoping to be able to escape out of the hole on the other side , or a wide sloping ledge on the right . |
| 8 | When I suggested this feature for the programme in the clubhouse , I was amazed no one put forward a match from my period as manager . |
| 9 | The correct item was the one following either a photo frame , a vase or a window . |
| 10 | The Great Unclean One vomited forth a stream of corruption . |
| 11 | Can anybody shed even a glimmer of light on the selection strategy ? |
| 12 | As Simon Frith puts it ( 1978 : 195 ) , ‘ Adorno 's is the most systematic and the most searing analysis of mass culture and the most challenging for anyone claiming even a scrap of value for the products that come churning out of the music industry ’ . |