Example sentences of "a [adj] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A modern commentator ( West 1967 ) writes , concerning a few hesitantly sketched lines of his own , " This is one man 's Horace and so delicate in the Latin that it protests at being made explicit . " |
| 2 | The first was a mistake which , all politicians will tell you , is easily made and relatively simple to correct with a few carefully worded statements and some abuse of the media . |
| 3 | As for the Danuese battalion , the Sons of Death , as they called themselves , a few still had revenge on their minds . |
| 4 | Classically these crimes have been seen as a result of a few mentally deranged men . |
| 5 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 6 | This father of a three-year-old also said parents should control what their children watched — as he did . |
| 7 | A neutral moon returned that night to shine on a thousand freshly dug graves , and Charlie swore to whatever God cared to listen that he would not forget his father or Tommy , or , for that matter , Captain Trentham . |
| 8 | These results demonstrate that a single productively rearranged TCR -β gene provides a sufficient signal for the transition of αβ lineage cells from a DN stage ( at least the stage reached in the RAG-1 mutant mice ) to a DP stage , and for the expansion of these DP cells to the normal level . |