Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ At fifty feet you might hit a wing , or a wheel , ’ he said .
2 Further , if the recipient does not wish to wait six months he can serve a notice on the sender in which case , if the sender does not come within one month to collect them , they then become an unconditional gift .
3 If a member of staff is sick for more than 7 days they must provide a medical certificate .
4 Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’
5 N , that is not on religious grounds either that is because I just think that they work six days they should have a day off anyway .
6 After doing six arcs you will have a template ,
7 IBM Corp shares saluted the imminent departure of John Akers with a jump of $3.25 at $52.125 at the opening the day after the company accompanied news that it was cutting its quarterly dividend only 55% with the announcement that within 90 days it would have a new chief executive .
8 If your account is not paid within the 21 days you may present a petition to the High Court , or in some cases to County Court , for that company to be wound up .
9 Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency .
10 If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’
11 But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant .
12 If staff are arriving before 0800 hours and leaving before 1515 hours they should complete a manual adjustment form for Friday 11 December 1992 in the normal way excluding any starting and finishing times .
13 So if they kept on flat out , every ten seconds they 'd go a further so many hundred metres , for ever and ever .
14 Every five minutes they would cadge a Bisonte from me , or a Lucky Strike from Dana .
15 When you have confirmed your booking and paid your deposit , within 2–3 weeks we will forward a Holiday Details form to you or your travel agent , verifying the confirmed holiday contract you have already made with us .
16 I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate .
17 Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb .
18 With a peak yield of 18 litres , and an average of 9 litres she will keep an ‘ extended family ’ well supplied without swamping them .
19 Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’
20 ‘ If the Governor set aside four hours every day for two months he could spend a minute on each decision package , not enough time to read it , let alone make an analysis of its merits ’ ( Anthony , 1977 , p. 19 ) .
21 Somewhere inside the thirty-two acres they will leave a landscaped formal garden .
22 Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut .
23 It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover .
24 ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’
25 And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it .
26 For those of you who think self-employed actually means well I can crawl out of bed at elevenish , work till fourish , that 's three days a week because the other two days I can have a couple of rounds of golf , Thursday and Friday , those of you who think that 's what self-employed means , are gon na fail .
27 Oh yes , there ha , I mean there are economies of scale in agriculture , it 's just that they 're , the scope of them er , is less than er the scope in manufacturing so I mean , farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century , this last century we 've witnessed an increase in farm size alright , but the I think the optimal , the optimal farm size is erm , I think it 's about three hundred hectares okay , er erm , with three hundred hectares you 'll produce a , a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one , two , three , ten hectares in size as we 've gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and that 's primarily due to economies of scale , but there are a great deal of economies to be reached , once you 've got a combine harvester , once you 've got big machinery alright .
28 Third , you are told that for every counter that you fail to get into the jar within thirty seconds you will have a finger chopped off .
29 Second let us suppose that you are told that for every counter that you place in the jar within thirty seconds you will receive a pound coin .
30 After two kilometres you will cross a bridge and see a large ilex tree on your right .
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