Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fruitful though this has been in promoting and giving direction to research , its uncritical pursuit only serves to advance a reductionist and therefore an inadequate view of man . |
| 2 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that the expression " transfer of assets " in TA 1988 , s670 covered such a case and thus the income derived from the assets so transferred was taxed upon the settlor . |
| 4 | After a while they were left alone for a bit and then a Black Maria turned up . |
| 5 | Tropical species often use open sites , under a branch or even a large leaf . |
| 6 | Most remarkable was the way in which cat and dog , owl and rat , fox and ferret , pets of all sorts calmly ignored each other throughout , with never a bark and hardly a whine |
| 7 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 8 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 9 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 10 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 11 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 12 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 13 | Much of what he wrote was , essentially , a defence and even a celebration of ‘ war communism ’ . |
| 14 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 16 | I 'm going to send it away and y for twenty five points on the back twenty five points you get a silver badge for a beginner and then a gold |
| 17 | Combination techniques comprise a host of different moves , a kick and follow-up punch , for example , or a double-kick and then a punch . |
| 18 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 19 | Object oriented graphics : are the other type that can be created on a computer and here the packages have names like MacDraw , Windows Draw , GEM Draw and AutoCAD . |
| 20 | And there clearly are situations in which the collective opinion of a majority or even a dominant minority puts an unacceptable and sometimes intolerable pressure on the dissenting or deviant minority or individual . |
| 21 | They first had found a foot and then the body of a man , but he was dead . |
| 22 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 23 | On the far bank , where a tributary of the Swale forms the waterfall of East Gill Force , a short climb arrives at a lane and here the two routes part company , never again to meet : Pennine Wayfarers turn left for Tan Hill , and Coast to Coasters turn right across a bridge to follow the lane eastwards high above the gorge of the Swale to reach Crackpot Hall . |
| 24 | And it 's got a ship and erm there 's people on there and it shows you this thing round the ship erm they have a storm and suddenly the sh the erm what do you call it ? |
| 25 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 26 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 27 | ‘ I did have help from my cousin who 's a midwife and also a good friend . |
| 28 | ‘ Her boyfriend is a photographer and apparently the old toothpaste on the nipples routine is a trick of the trade to keep them hard . |
| 29 | To be late would earn a reprimand and possibly a warning from those who stood above them . |
| 30 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |