Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Johnston was important as a systematic thinker who put together a package of ideas on the links between Marxist and republican politics . |
| 5 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |