Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One is that the further from a Type 1 structure a school is , the greater the need for communication and coordination in decision-making .
2 It deserves to succeed , and hints more than a little at a film soundtrack .
3 She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation .
4 Miles groaned inwardly , knowing instinctively that the how and the why of a thing were almost irrelevant when placed against the fact .
5 ‘ Yeah , and that E chord should really be on the bridge pickup , but I could never get it and every once in a while I 'd be thinking , ‘ I 'm gon na try it …
6 We saw a great many sheep , of course , grazing on the peat-grass and the bog-myrtle ; and every once in a while , some miles back from the road , an estancia — a collection of farm buildings like white dolls ' houses , tiny on the immense plain .
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