Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ballvalve is faulty it is likely that either the washer has worn or that the seating needs replacing ( page 46 ) . |
| 2 | Using a pole , fixed line , size 24 hook and wisp of fish or half a harbour rag it would be possible to catch fish an inch long one after another . |
| 3 | The State Department had accused Guatemala of ‘ failing to investigate effectively , to detain or prosecute ’ people in the security forces or half a dozen armed groups who took part in ‘ extrajudicial killings ’ . |
| 4 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 5 | One drink means a single measure of spirit , a glass of wine , a small glass of sherry or half a pint of beer or lager . |
| 6 | Anyone might , anyone could , anyone would be welcome for a time or half a time . |
| 7 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 8 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 9 | One sector is 512 bytes , or half a kilobyte , and an MFM drive has 17 sectors per track , which makes 8.5Kb per track . |
| 10 | One unit is equivalent to one pub measure or glass of wine , sherry , or whisky , or half a pint of beer or cider . |
| 11 | For instance , the use of cannabis by the young is far more likely to be branded as ‘ drug-taking'/'drug addiction ’ and hence a ‘ social problem ’ than is the consumption of thirty cigarettes a day by adults or half a bottle of brandy by middle-class businessmen . |
| 12 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 13 | Protractors , compasses , rulers , and any other impressive props we could think of — even a film-footage chart , and the monocular ( or half a pair of binoculars ) inherited from our stepfather . |
| 14 | alcohol 3 units per day ( 1 unit = 1 glass of wine , 1 measure spirit or half a pint of beer or lager ) |
| 15 | One unit is a glass of wine , a measure of spirits or half a pint of beer . |
| 16 | Your head is big business — it weighs about 10lb or 4½kg and your hands weigh about 1lb or half a kg each . |
| 17 | Despite the poor conditions in many towns , Margaret Loane , a health visitor , felt that the family of the pre-World War I urban labourer , earning 20/ a week and renting a small house or half a house , was better off than that of his rural counterpart , earning 13/ a week and living in a free , but often damp and usually overcrowded cottage . |
| 18 | When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged , I found that wherever there was an empty page , or half a page , someone had written on it , and on the first page was written ‘ Catherine Earnshaw 's diary , 1776 ’ . |
| 19 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 20 | Effects vary according to individual health , weight and sex but , as a rough measure , three single whiskies drunk in one hour might result in 0.05% alcohol content in the blood — this would lift spirits and lessen inhibitions ( a single whisky is equivalent to one glass of wine or half a pint of beer ) . |
| 21 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 22 | One unit is equal to a small glass of wine , or half a pint of ordinary strength beer or lager , one measure of spirit or a small sherry . |
| 23 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 24 | it was a stone or half a brick . |
| 25 | You do n't go pennies , you go sort of ten thousand pound or half a million on this one now ! |
| 26 | This led to redundancy charges of £400,000 , or half the 1991 figure . |
| 27 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 28 | So therefore they argued , my children will only get half the mutation , or half the effects of it , fifty percent increase in reproductive success . |
| 29 | Alright , in order to satiate the demand for wheat in the world , we 'd need a farm , you know , the size of Wales , or something , or bigger than that , the size of Europe , or half the size of Europe , alright , so the , because of the , the nature of agricultural production , economies of scale just are n't , are n't there . |
| 30 | That , Anno 1260 , or about 200 years after the Norman Conquest , the kingdom had 2,750,000 people , or half the present number ; so that the people of England have doubled in about 435 years last past ; |