Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has received quite an unpleasant shock . ’ |
| 2 | Any sane and workable approach to life obviously has to contain both an attitude to individuals and an attitude towards the whole . |
| 3 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 4 | ‘ So my Berlioz connection was founded on love , but fate has had almost an equal hand in it . ’ |
| 5 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 6 | Since 1987 , the MTFS has become more an official pronouncement of the growth path of M0 than a useful guide to the methods of achieving policy objectives . |
| 7 | IN the West Indies the appropriately coloured rainbow flag for friendship can sometimes be used to replace the plethora of different ensigns ( there are more ensigns than steel bands among the islands ) , but mostly it has become merely an additional flag . |
| 8 | Tait has brought together an intriguing group of Spanish betrothal pendants . |
| 9 | Someone who has taken only an option to buy has not ‘ bought or agreed to buy . ’ |
| 10 | Michel Charasse has put forward an amendment which would allow cigarette advertising at the Grand Prix . |
| 11 | An alliance between farming and environmental groups has put forward an action plan to help farmers combine food production with conservation of the countryside . |
| 12 | A member of the big apple 's Grolier Club has put together an exhibition of Scottish literary treasures . |
| 13 | The problem with this ‘ high ’ structuralism is that it tends to offer only an extremely objectivist account of social action , in which the human actor is merely a vehicle for the autonomous working of certain ordering principles . |
| 14 | Beryl Pyecroft finds walking there an electrifying experience . |
| 15 | The section seems to require solely an intent to obtain . |
| 16 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 17 | In an NHS clinic this may be only ten to fifteen minutes , but the average practitioner seeing a patient privately likes to give about an hour to the first interview , so that a good idea of as many facets of the patient as possible can be ascertained . |
| 18 | ‘ It does seem rather an absurd idea , after all ‘ civil ’ covers the middle ground , and somehow I do n't think that area exists for us . ’ |
| 19 | So I think she 's got quite an impression of Trevor now . |
| 20 | But he 's got quite an old face for |
| 21 | This is a double standard which fails to interpret fairly an important aspect of male-female differences . |