Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was overlooked in our discussion of stylistic competence is that our intuitive " placing " of a text depends not on an undifferentiated capacity to compare a text with the norm of the language , but rather on a responsiveness to a set of norms : a norm for spoken conversation , a norm for news reporting , a norm for writing diaries , a norm for historical novels , etc . |
| 2 | If a member of a board arrives late at a meeting , and is not present during the whole of a hearing on an application , he must not vote with regard to that application : Goodall v. Bilsland , 1909 S.C . |
| 3 | A fight spills out of a saloon . |
| 4 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 5 | As a male sets out along a branch , he leans over sideways , lifts one of his back legs and carefully expels a few drops of urine on to the sole of his foot . |
| 6 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 7 | Between each song , a chant pushes up like a hushed inhale , murmuring from a hesitant corner . |
| 8 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 9 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 10 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's advertising . |
| 11 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 12 | A girl sits down with a man and she says , ‘ I hear you 're very romantic , please take me to dinner ’ — that 's Public Relations ! |
| 13 | If a burglar breaks in through a window , he will want to open the door so that he can carry the television out to his vehicle . |
| 14 | It 's 10 minutes today : less than a cat puts in on a bird . |
| 15 | From a distance , a buzzard sitting on a post looks just like an extension of that post , because its brown plumage mingles very easily with similarly coloured items . |
| 16 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 17 | If a team stops even for a minute Aah can tell — and t'men knows it ! ’ |
| 18 | Yet I loved her so much and not a day goes past without a thought of her . |
| 19 | However , the book , which as a whole survives only in a revised and partially expurgated Latin translation by Rufinus made in 398 , damaged his reputation for pure orthodoxy . |
| 20 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 21 | Hardly a week goes by without a report in the press of some find of archaeological importance . |
| 22 | But when a woman comes along with a superior set of academic qualifications and a superior status and treats you like shit , then that 's a different matter . |
| 23 | Hardly a month goes by without an event having you uncorking the champagne or counting your remaining blessings . |
| 24 | A homestead consists typically of a man and his wife ( or wives ) with their children , and in addition the families of a few other close patrilineal relatives . |
| 25 | If a geneticist speaks loosely of a ‘ gene for behaviour X ’ , he does not mean that there is a gene which would cause behaviour X if inserted into any animal . |
| 26 | And if ever a man sleeps well after a day 's work done well that man is , and I pray God give him rest , Donald Templeton ! ’ |
| 27 | A man wakes up in a beautiful room in a strange house . |
| 28 | My Boss says a man rings in with an upset stomach and you know either he means a hangover or else his brother managed to get him a ticket for Wembley . |
| 29 | ‘ None of the electronic or automatic systems work , so each time you bowl , a man jumps down from a shelf behind the pins at the end of your lane , switches the light off , resets the pins , jumps back onto his shelf and switches the light back on ! ’ she said . |
| 30 | Even such things as the maximum angle of bank in certain configurations are specified , so once a pilot sets out on a particular flight his actions , or at least the manner in which he should fly the aeroplane , are known in precise detail . |