Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such nurses need to benefit from an individual appraisal and assessment of their experience and skills so that re-entry becomes a natural progression for them rather than a hurdle to be jumped . |
| 2 | Well there 'd be a squad of riveters would go in and put them in before a tank was tested . |
| 3 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 4 | It cost me less than a tenner and for swingtipping and springtipping it was brilliant . |
| 5 | Military and political commanders would normally decide to use them only when a war in Europe was in full swing . |
| 6 | But police say the IRA message gave them less than an hour to respond . |
| 7 | Their consummate skill in limiting demands for independence on the royal demesne , while favouring them elsewhere where a royal confirmation might create allies , has often been remarked . |
| 8 | Interesting high-profile autobiographies that drop names like confetti : in Well , I Forget The Rest ( Hutchinson , £17.99 ) , Quentin Crewe , thrice-married , confesses : ‘ It has never taken me longer than a week-end to fall in love , usually less . ’ |
| 9 | Margaret Thatcher once pleaded that it would be the ‘ cruellest thing ’ for her colleagues to unseat her after she had obtained for them more than a decade in power . |
| 10 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
| 11 | I have lived among them more than a third of my life , and still I do not understand them . |
| 12 | Having said that , the £1.6 billion reduces to £0.7 billion once the time-value of money is taken into consideration , and this will be reduced yet again once the Government accepts proposals for Deferred Safestore which we submitted to them more than a year ago . |
| 13 | It took them more than an hour to control . |
| 14 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 15 | His self-pitying speech reveals his worthlessness : ( " I may say " " Alas , woe is me " " : I love you more than my life , you hate me more than a goat hates the knife . " ) |
| 16 | And I Queensbank and he would n't even give me more than a fiver ! |
| 17 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 18 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 19 | Remember that a complementary practitioner will be treating you rather than a single symptom . |
| 20 | How would you know if it was an internal call for you rather than an external . |
| 21 | If only one of those people is wondering what to do on a Friday night , thumbs through the listings , spots your band 's name , and thinks ‘ I 've heard of that band , they must be worth seeing ’ , that sticker , which cost you less than a penny , has been very cost effective . |
| 22 | Do n't tell me that little toy cost you less than a hundred and twenty , Cullam . ’ |
| 23 | Incredible as it sounds a weekend package with Cresta can cost you less than a flight to Paris in the normal way . |
| 24 | You better than a sleepin' pill . ’ |
| 25 | That will be to you better than a light and safer than a known way ’ . |
| 26 | Details of the scale of commission payable in respect of this contract will be sent to you shortly after a firm application is made on your behalf . |
| 27 | Details of the scale of commission payable in respect of this contract will be sent to you shortly after a firm application is made on your behalf . |
| 28 | They need not cost you more than a meal out and a trip to the theatre , yet they will provide many more hours of pleasure . |
| 29 | The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams . |
| 30 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |