Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 2 | A second or two later though and she realised that she must have been mistaken , for his look was suddenly more mocking than anything when , ‘ In a word , ’ he lobbed back at her , ‘ fantastic . ’ |
| 3 | there 'll be a minutes silence before that cup match tomorrow in memory of Gloucester club secretary Terry Tandy who died this week at the age of 57 … he served the club for twenty five years … he was a cherry and white through and through |
| 4 | FSA applies to a transaction which is or is to be entered into by a person as principal only if he is , effectively , a market maker |
| 5 | Yes , and he did say when he phoned me a night or two ago that you might |
| 6 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 7 | It must have been a day or two afterwards that she had seen the picture . |
| 8 | The police were a minute or two behind but , before the inevitable string of questions began , I insisted on making and drinking a huge mug of tea . |
| 9 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 10 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 11 | Rozanov let the curtain drop and took a pace or two up and down . |
| 12 | Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) . |
| 13 | The scene is much more complex than it was say a generation or two ago and Moderator we in the Church of England should be much interested to learn in due course whether you too will feel a need to make liturgical revision for these various paths to faith . |
| 14 | As with most projects in Hollywood , there was always an overlap between one and another , sometimes of a year or two simply because of the time it takes to get an idea , or a script or a novel , written , financed , budgeted and into production . |
| 15 | It was on a fishing expedition in late autumn a year or two ago that we were visited by a number of pomarine skuas , no doubt birds from northern Siberia which were making their way towards wintering quarters in the south Atlantic . |
| 16 | Word was a year or two ago that the joints were popping with air-hostesses , models and career women : five minutes , a couple of lite beers , and you 'd be in a hotel room or service flat with some little darling doing the splits on your face . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm rather lame people in the village say you 've caught arthritis , and I caught it a year or two ago but my brain has n't entirely given out . |
| 18 | While most practising firms are having no difficulty in retaining and recruiting staff in the midst of a recession , the situation was , of course , very different only a year or two ago and will probably change again just as rapidly . |
| 19 | Two very significant products , Adobe Illustrator and Aldus FreeHand , looks set to change that for line artwork at least but it will be a year or two yet before scanned photographs become a reality . |
| 20 | In front of his nose dangles a hexagonal rubber handle suspended from a chain , installed a year or two earlier when the University removed all automatic flushing systems from its men 's cloakrooms as an economy measure . |
| 21 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 22 | I thought you might like to send somebody over in the van and pick a bottle or two up and you can have a party in the studio after your show . |