Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , child psychology is a luxury which only a small section of the world 's parents can afford to consider : mothers need a respite from the most urgent problems of hunger , sickness and exposure before they can give much attention to questions of personal adjustment and maladjustment . |
| 2 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 3 | Football has become a substitute for patriotism amongst the disaffected , half-educated white working-class youth of a nation which only a generation ago was respected and feared throughout the world . |
| 4 | It is a valuable acquisition for the museum as it describes an experience which quite a number of Middlesbrough people must have gone through . ’ |
| 5 | MARK CROSSLEY dropped Nottingham Forest deeper into the relegation mire yesterday with an error which even a Sunday morning park footballer would find embarrassing . |
| 6 | It 's a chance for a bit of fun and the height of the gardening year ; an occasion which even a beleaguered Prime Minister takes time out for . |
| 7 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |