Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Gary Mabbutt , who hopes to make his first appearance of the season after injury , said : ‘ The game may be only a friendly but there is a lot of prestige involved . |
| 2 | The General Assembly is the er assembly of the unit the part of the United Nations in which each state has a representative whether you 're Swaziland or whether you 're Russia , whether you 're Ukraine or whether you 're Singapore , you have a representative in the General Assembly of the United Nations . |
| 3 | It is impolite to say ‘ No ’ to a Peruvian and they have various social technique of doing so without actually saying it . |
| 4 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 5 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 6 | Erm , now we , we can explain to you in more detail , but the finan I think Mr 's already said to you that the financial savings er , from such moves are not as productive as they were , so in sense we 're driven by strategy here , we 're driven by the fact that there is a private and there is an independent sector that is there , there is alternative methods of supply . |
| 7 | This emphasizes the vital point that in geology a solid is only a solid if you think of it on a short enough time-scale . |
| 8 | It is always a possible that something like this will happen . |
| 9 | there was this picture of this , I do n't know if it was a man or a woman naked in a cubical and it filled , well he or she filled the cubical and you could n't see where the , the bottom began |
| 10 | I mean is that man a spastic or what ? |
| 11 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 12 | It 's almost impossible to tail a bike in London unless you 're on a bike yourself , and that 's a definite if it 's rush-hour . |
| 13 | If this was sort of a cubic or something then you 'd have all sorts of terms and you could chance of making a mistake . |
| 14 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 15 | Not a bloody cos I did n't hear him ! |
| 16 | The relationship between overall unemployment and crime is inconsistent … on balance the weight of existing research supports there being a weak but none the less significant causal relationship . |
| 17 | Jean-Philippe Ruggia has yet to scrape his elbows on a 500 but he was getting close at Eastern Creek . |
| 18 | She felt less of a stranger once she knew where the bathroom was . |
| 19 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 20 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 21 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 22 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 23 | She had remained a stranger and her bouts of listless depression had grown along with her drinking . |
| 24 | But would she like to do it with a stranger and one so strange as Leon who came , not just from ten miles off , but a thousand ? |
| 25 | So , even though the man was a stranger and I was afraid of him , I began worrying about his being sick , and the idea that he might die made me feel quite desperate . |
| 26 | " Personally I do n't care a damn whether you 're here or not . |
| 27 | I suddenly realized that I was n't myself any more : I did n't give a damn whether he was wearing a tie or not . ’ |
| 28 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 29 | ‘ As long as you are well and are nice to me , ’ he wrote , ‘ I do n't give a damn if everything else goes wrong . ’ |
| 30 | And I do n't give a damn if you want me here or not . |