Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 2 | The standing commissions usually met twice a year to examine relevant sections of the Five Year Plan , the budget and any laws pertaining to their area of interest . |
| 3 | Individual service departments usually have quite a clear understanding of their own legal responsibilities , but are often not too sure how their work relates to other parts of the local authority empire . |
| 4 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 5 | In brief , then , EC countries currently enjoy only a limited degree of monetary autonomy and this applies only to the very short run . |