Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeal to labour solidarity wo n't wash either when most of the labour force is non-unionized , many of whom earn only a pittance in the secondary labour market . |
| 2 | It is clear why ministers , who lose only a little and gain a great deal from the doctrine , should want to keep it going . |
| 3 | In France invasion was in the air at court and anyone who put forward a promising scheme was sure of an audience . |
| 4 | The pressure came from John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , who put forward an amendment to the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill calling for the planned six-month jail sentence or fine of up to £1,000 to be increased to two years or an unlimited fine . |
| 5 | Johnston was important as a systematic thinker who put together a package of ideas on the links between Marxist and republican politics . |
| 6 | Sjahrir and his colleague Amir Sjarifuddin were designated formateurs ; in Dutch constitutional terms , those who put together a new government . |
| 7 | But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’ |
| 8 | An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack . |
| 9 | There are songs about fleeting eye contacts , snatched and forever treasured , about drunken kisses and casual betrayals , about girls who walk home a different way each night to avoid the air-head wolf-whistles . |
| 10 | The ladies , who run about a third of the distance of the men 's race and carry twenty kilo sacks , can win similar prizes , a trophy , voucher , money and goblets instead of tankards . |
| 11 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
| 12 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
| 13 | Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’ |
| 14 | Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ? |
| 15 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 16 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
| 17 | This is due to the fact that if there is no insider dealing ‘ those who transact only a few moments apart may get very different prices and will view the market as performing unfairly ’ . |
| 18 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 19 | In addition , wider family loyalties are intense , extending even to those who share only a very remote common ancestor . |
| 20 | There are instrumental teachers who think only a distinction is worth considering and therefore may delay entering candidates , causing them to restrict their repertoire unduly . |
| 21 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 22 | It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation . |
| 23 | What an economy needs is shareholders who have both a long-term interest in the companies they own and the desire and ability to apply some discipline to managers . |
| 24 | Women on our courses who have both a boy and girl are now finding daughters rebelling and asking why they have to do everything when their brother does little or nothing . |
| 25 | As you read you will probably be aware of a character 's potential as a role for the actor — particularly with those who have already an established place in theatrical tradition ( Dickens is full of such characters ) . |
| 26 | The British Cabinet consists of most of the ruling party 's political ‘ heavyweights ’ , politicians who have either an acknowledged expertise , political following , reputation , or are close to the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Yet any study of the book and Bukharin 's subsequent writings indicate more continuity than is usually allowed for by those commentators who have only a cursory knowledge of his works . |
| 28 | Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there are those who have only an imperfect formal competence in a language but who by a combination of guesswork and intuition can somehow make contact with the aesthetic qualities of a foreign poem . |
| 30 | I think one of the things which the French have learnt to do is , indeed , to integrate specialists , whether they 're scientists , whether they 're economists , erm and their generalists , that 's to say the people who have basically a legal , economic , administrative background , to integrate them within the administrative hierarchy in a much better way than we have , erm and this is erm something which does I think make it easier sometimes to provide advice that really is erm clued up about the technical aspects of something . |