Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [be] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Initially you you 're doing that then saying right , forget that one , get on with something else and that 's there for a week or whatever till that thoroughly hardens and then .
2 An obvious angle , perhaps , on a car whose maker sells itself as ‘ The Aircraft Manufacturer ’ , but Michael Stewart knows his cockpits : ‘ I used to fly a lot , mainly Cessnas , and this is very like a small aircraft dashboard ’ .
3 The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else .
4 But that was only on a Sunday .
5 We also take in a considerable quantity of aluminium in certain foods , but this is normally in a ‘ non-bioavailable ’ form .
6 At the discussions , time is given to cause and effect , but this is mainly at a conscious level .
7 The most efficient predators may take animals as large as or larger than themselves , but this is usually as a result of communal hunting , for example amongst the mammalian carnivores .
8 But this was only for a second .
9 Another Florentine nobleman , Jacopo Corsi , who took over the role of patron of the camerata when Bardi left for Rome , composed two numbers for Dafne , a tiny aria for Apollo and a unison coro finale , which have survived , but these are hardly in a nuova maniera .
10 but I ca n't understand how they can say that asthma is in , really in the same strain because that 's more like a breathing
11 Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin .
12 Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) .
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