Example sentences of "[det] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research on UK quoted companies indicates that over half use either a wrong or an inappropriate technique for evaluating leases ( ‘ The Leasing Decision : A Comparison of Theory and Practice ’ by Colin Drury and Steven Braund , Accounting and Business Research , Vol 20 No 79 , Summer 1990 , pp 179–191 ) . |
| 2 | Okay erm how about a half take away a twelfth ? |
| 3 | So I 'm going to do erm a half add a third okay and a third add a quarter and a half take away a third okay and I 'll give you another one to do How about this one . |
| 4 | These arc just a few examples . |
| 5 | These provide neither an exhaustive listing nor even a wide range of examples , but clearly identify the differences that mark out the South in the contemporary United States . |
| 6 | I have n't seen these look just a minute , please . |
| 7 | Yet a mere glance at the list will reveal the predominance of the I form ( 960 times in my count , taking all first-person forms : I/me/my/myself/mine ) and the You or Thou form ( 890 times , including thou/thee/thy/thine/thyself ; you/ye/your/yours/yourself ) , over the third-person forms , where these imply either a third-person account of the beloved ( He in Sonnets 1–126 : 51 times ; She in Sonnets 127–52 : 31 times ) or a reference to some third party with whom the poet or his beloved is having a relationship ( She in Sonnets 1–126 : 11 instances ; He in Sonnets 127–52 : 22 instances ; total 33 ) . |
| 8 | Ready-finished doors are now among those on offer and these require just an occasional wipe over to keep them looking immaculate . |
| 9 | Both of these require only a qualified majority of the Council . |
| 10 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 11 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 12 | We all owe Solly a deep debt of gratitude for his services to the cause of jazz for so many years . |
| 13 | The latter constitute both a small dictionary of commercial abbreviations and a set of dispositive rules . |
| 14 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 15 | The latter deal primarily in a currency of meaning while the former have still a conflict concerning the appropriate register for the target language . |
| 16 | The Laboulbeniales demonstrate a high degree of host specificity , and by this criterion are highly advanced ; most infect only a single species of arthropod , or at most a small group of closely related host species , and only a few are known to occur on a variety of distantly related hosts . |
| 17 | And I 'd like you to both spend quite a bit of time just playing with the numbers that make up three sixty . |