Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , it 's looking a little dated now ; the steering wheel is absurdly large , even by Mercedes ' standards , and someone else makes a smoother , quieter V8 . |
| 2 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
| 3 | Moreover , almost everyone already has a firm mental picture of the American police that has been acquired from a lifetime 's film- and television-viewing . |
| 4 | No-one ever does a steamy love scene with Danny De Vito . ’ |
| 5 | One rarely sees a black swan in classical ballet . |
| 6 | To demonstrate that something necessarily has a certain property , so the theory runs , is to show , by means of a syllogistic argument from certain axioms or first principles , that it has it . |
| 7 | Normally , one only meets a non-cumulative several liability where it is annexed to joint liability . |
| 8 | And to do this at all one obviously needs a general account of the relation between them . |
| 9 | Er , this one already costs a hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 10 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The last one up becomes a new caller . |
| 12 | At the same time , it is from Luke that one also learns a great deal about the Nazarean Party . |
| 13 | single compartment main body with drawstring top ; lid pocket with rear zip and pleated top which expands for extra capacity ; 12in deep side pockets with semi-circular zips — one also has a small zipped external pouch for keys and bits and bobs ; large pocket at front of sack with wrap-around zip . |
| 14 | A good round followed by a poor one often means a missed cut , and it is very difficult to put two rounds together on consecutive days if you have not been used to doing so . |
| 15 | Here one immediately has a sociological concept to work on — but to what purpose ? |
| 16 | That one there has a good appearance but to my mind it 's not deep enough . |
| 17 | In a typical lizard , every tail vertebra from the sixth one onwards has a special ‘ plane of weakness ’ where a thin layer of cartilage replaces the stronger , bony tissue . |
| 18 | One half expects a ruffled , doubleted figure to emerge from its grand doorway . |
| 19 | In these cases one never finds a whole tree fossilized , and it is necessary to piece together the whole plant by making intelligent guesses about whether a frond of one kind is persistently found with a particular fossil trunk . |
| 20 | One definitely has a grey suit underneath , and the other is probably the same . |
| 21 | So I do n't think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem . |
| 22 | Everyone else has a standard period of notice . |