Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments about the quality of particular animals in a payment scarcely arose when the payment was in a standardized currency : no one asked , ‘ Well now , which of these dinars do you promise me ? ’ |
| 2 | When we reach midlife , our bodies need a bit more care than when we were younger . |
| 3 | I mean you buy it you 're not gon na , I mean alright you 're gon na have a bit more grown but you 're only gon na get a bit more muscly . |
| 4 | He saddles Wajiba Riva in the Coventry and warned : ‘ Stonehatch will have a bit more to beat than he did when winning at York . ’ |
| 5 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 6 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 7 | He says it 's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it 's nice . |
| 8 | Right after that you 'll learn that once the bird is stabilised in the dive it 's all too easy to be a bit late recovering and end up pulling g . |
| 9 | When we are sinned against we have a decision either to forgive or harbour resentment . |
| 10 | The jurisdiction to quash a decision only exists when there has in fact been an error of law . |
| 11 | It might therefore have been recommended were it not that it would take someone already well-versed in galactic studies to interpret a text badly translated and poorly proof-read , abounding in misspellings and obscure turns of phrase . |
| 12 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 13 | He suffered , like Vincent , from depressive attacks , of a kind now seen as indicating acute anxiety neurosis . |
| 14 | It says it can accept these only under protest , a response apparently regarded as ungracious . |
| 15 | A cheque subsequently arrived and was sent back immediately ’ . |
| 16 | Cars may be taken as far as the Hall and , with permission , parked there , a concession especially appreciated when returning . |
| 17 | This is a technique often used that leads to a quick and simple answer . |
| 18 | I have a certificate here proving that you married Bertha Mason in the West Indies fifteen years ago . ’ |
| 19 | He raised his black eyebrows in a look so disbelieving that she could only repeat what she 'd said . |
| 20 | What of a marriage of a male severely disfigured and without genitalia as a result of war or an accident ? |
| 21 | One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife . |
| 22 | Each peak induces a cell locally to divide and form a bristle . |
| 23 | Then , since it is whether or not a cell actually responds that determines whether it undergoes the slow modification process , the slow process would make cortical neurons become permanently tuned to this uncorrelated set of features . |
| 24 | — a fear then forgotten but driven down into the subconscious ? |
| 25 | A horse much loved and much missed by his life long fans . |
| 26 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 27 | It is difficult to feed hay from a rick so covered because the shape is constantly changing and the top can not be kept convex . |
| 28 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 29 | This subordination of all other considerations — including qualifications — to race , it was argued , would amount to a system of de facto racial job " quotas " , a term much used but with several different meanings . |
| 30 | Such a gcd always exists and is unique . |