Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [adv] [vb base] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , consider a firm which has a machine which originally cost £10,000 but has recently been surplus to requirements . |
| 2 | On the other hand we do quite frequently mutter to ourselves as we try to deduce something logically — or even if we do n't make a sound we often use words in our head when trying to work out a complex problem . |
| 3 | So in a way we never stop training . |
| 4 | You have here twenty six tabbed alpha dividers , er , unless it 's going to create a problem they usually go A to Z. Erm , some people use this an alphabetical filing system . |
| 5 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |