Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company therefore said that salesmen must agree to a new restrictive covenant which barred them from soliciting customers for up to a year after leaving . |
| 2 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 3 | Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional . |
| 4 | These men and women always belong to and are made sense of only as a part of the collective — the race , the nation , the state , the republic , the class , etc . |
| 5 | An exception lies in those children in whom obsessive , aggressive or bizarre sexual activity shows evidence at least of a conscious knowledge of the import of the activity itself . |
| 6 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 7 | WITH no obvious metamorphosis , the Diary spent part of yesterday among an organisation called Teesside Women at a ‘ meet the politicians ’ lunch . |
| 8 | After the failure of The Family Reunion his first instinct was to start work at once on a new play which would avoid the failures of the earlier one . |
| 9 | The sanctuary attendants arrested Apollonius at once as a magician and a robber , suspecting that he had tamed the dogs with the intention of stealing the sanctuary treasure . |
| 10 | Are they having lesson in here in a minute , I think |
| 11 | What the HMI appear to be taking issue with here in a particularly strongly value-laden way is something that other writers have variously called ‘ formal ’ , ‘ traditional ’ , ‘ product ’ , ‘ production ’ , ‘ transmission ’ , ‘ class-enquiry ’ , ‘ recitation ’ and ‘ discipline-based ’ teaching . |
| 12 | She also stored food in there like a hamster , and sometimes , when least expected , her head would snake back inside her covering and the crunch of crisps or the slurp of a boiled sweet could be heard . |
| 13 | In common with many small and medium-sized mutual life assurers investing in growing their business , because it can not raise money from outside as a proprietary company can , it is forced to make a choice . |
| 14 | Radical changes have taken place since then with an increasing range and variety of foods available to the consumer . |
| 15 | ‘ Now , let me get Silvio in here with a contract — ’ |
| 16 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 17 | We had potatoes in there for a time but we had to keep hoeing all the weeds out . |
| 18 | Workers would be given shares of up to a quarter of the total in their enterprise . |
| 19 | Waste compactors offer a new concept in efficient and cost-effective waste disposal by safely and hygienically reducing waste to up to a quarter of its original size . |
| 20 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 21 | Multiple clusters , each one spanning distances of up to a mile , can be configured using Encore 's Fibre Optic Reflective Memory Systems . |
| 22 | The English socialist William Morris was so appalled that he published News from Nowhere as a riposte to Bellamy . |
| 23 | The extent of the practice is , however , obscured by the widespread custom that permitted tenants to make demises for up to a year — in some places as much as three — without licence from the lord of the manor . |