Example sentences of "a [n mass] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , a dog , when it 's confronted with danger it can , it can fight it 's way out a cat will do the same , every other creature will , will do something when it 's confronted with danger a se , a sheep is so intelligent and is so strong and is , has such a er , a self- preservation er er er |
| 2 | Their average stay in a corps was only two years . |
| 3 | Few diseases are incurable , but when a fish is badly diseased it is kindest to destroy it . |
| 4 | A samurai was publicly marked out from the rest of society by his appearance and his bearing of two swords . |
| 5 | Similarly , when a rendezvous is finally arranged , a date at an icecream parlour , the couple arrive only to find the shop has run out of icecream . |
| 6 | The real reason why a fluke is recognizably separate from its host , the reason why it does n't merge its purposes and its identity with the purposes and identity of the host , is that the fluke genes do n't share the snail genes ' method of leaving the shared vehicle , and do n't share in the snail 's meiotic lottery — they have a lottery of their own . |
| 7 | Because a byte is very small , memory size is usually spoken of in terms of thousands or millions of bytes ( kilobytes or megabytes respectively ) . |
| 8 | But , erm , a lot a people are now saying that the quality of er , the programmes on the telly is n't very good . |
| 9 | The Irish as a people are still imagined as involved , at least tacitly , in perpetuating a contemporary form of savagery — terrorism . |
| 10 | Hotman points out that while " they may be a people without a king … a king without a people is as inconceivable as a pastor without a flock , " and suggests that the supposed ancient kingdom of Francogallia " was not subject to the law of inheritance as if it were a private patrimony but was habitually transferred by the votes and decisions of the people . " |
| 11 | Now the DNA operating system of a species is very very old indeed , and there is evidence that it , seen in the long term , does something a bit like the computer with its disc files . |
| 12 | A mountain of research has shown that the population of a species is commonly limited by shortages of resources in a density-dependent manner ; the larger the population the greater the shortage and the more marked the effects of starvation . |
| 13 | It used to be thought that a species was either monogamous or polygamous and that , in this respect at least , its behaviour was fixed . |
| 14 | Calling a pelargonium a geranium is quite simply wrong ; they 're completely different . |
| 15 | Above a pair are just abbing off : they 've decide it 's not for them today . |
| 16 | Typically there is a pair of ganglia in each segment of the body , but the members of a pair are usually so closely united that they appear as a single ganglion , the commissure being no longer evident externally . |
| 17 | A carp is quite happy on a high protein diet because it utilises some for tissue repair , construction of its own complex molecules such as enzymes and of course growth by addition of new body protein . |
| 18 | What is now a series was once a single law . |