Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [modal v] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Any busy person will recall that he has a particular engagement but will have only a sparse internal record of when this commitment will arise , hence the importance of a diary . |
| 2 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 3 | Now at the moment that might seem quite a good idea , we have a very right-wing Tory government and Europe seems very reasonable . |
| 4 | The penalty is that you have to decide what sizes you want and prepare them in advance , a process that can take quite a time and uses up a considerable amount of disk space . |
| 5 | Such machines have an incidental use on carpeting and may find therefore a role beyond the kitchen door . |
| 6 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Fishing was rather like farming in that a river fishery was a limited resource that could support only a restricted number of people . |
| 8 | you you , absolutely , we 'd go on forever and ever and ever and er , therefore , I I , I withdraw all of that stuff but , in a way I feel that it would be helpful for parents , probably who have n't seen this information and might like maybe a sample |
| 9 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has bowed to pressure and will impose only a small rise on drinkers and smokers . |
| 10 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |