Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this does not work ( and I do n't think you actually have to go to France ) , you might try the recipe of the American crime short story writer , Robert Twohy , who writes out a first sentence and then sees if anything comes from it , and so on . |
| 2 | To offer an explanation of this view doubtless seemed unnecessary , for it must be obvious to anyone who has even a rudimentary grasp of the exigencies of electoral campaigning . |
| 3 | This clearly contravened church teaching : in II Cnut 54.1 Archbishop Wulfstan forbids a priest to minister to a man who has both a rightful wife and a concubine . |
| 4 | Like an archaeologist who digs up a tiny shard in the desert and from it extrapolates a whole civilisation , so Simon Charsley lifts an inconsequential marzipan confection and uses it to illuminate the shifting sands of Western civilisation . |
| 5 | Not only are victims , particularly of personal theft or burglary , usually reluctant to become entangled with the bureaucratic nightmare that can follow the reporting of a crime to the police , but it is extremely difficult to convict anyone who possesses either a good lawyer or ‘ influence ’ . |
| 6 | Ludmila Andrews ' Mad , Bad Mortal Beings is about the emotional turmoil of a black woman recovering from a relationship , and Sonali Fernando 's Shakti is a brief fable about a trash-collecting Asian woman who sees off a white yob with sort-of magic powers and struts around in funky transformed shoes . |
| 7 | The socialist , the feminist , or the worker who picks up a cheap print of the Memorial Sheet to Karl Liebknecht ( 1919 ) , is not prioritising the formal elements which attracted Max Lehrs as writing , ‘ It would be very regrettable if ( Kollowitz ‘ etchings ) found approval from the public merely because of their social content … = Art should not and can not serve the changing goals of parties . ’ |
| 8 | Really if we , if we 're not on top of these things , then what we 're saying is that Jehovah is like saying to a high squad who lays out a beautiful meal for us and saying well there you are , it 's yours for the taking and you saying well I do n't feel like that today I 'll just have some chips down the road . |
| 9 | But the most vicious discriminiation had come in the previous year , from Edmund Wilson , who applauded the structure of The Waste Land by contrasting it to ‘ the extremely ill-focused Eight Cantos of his imitator Mr Ezra Pound , who presents only a bewildering mosaic with no central emotion to provide a key ’ . |
| 10 | The hunter who strikes down a wild peccary with a blowgun dart is participating in only one aspect of this process , and the critical role is played by the ruwang . |