Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 2 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 3 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 4 | They had no windows or windscreen and only a canopy and storm curtains for protection . |
| 5 | If it is , soil maps can be obtained from the London Map Centre or Sanfords and possibly a detailed ‘ narrative ’ of the various soil types , their qualities , and their shortcomings . |
| 6 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 7 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 8 | Should these general measures fail after a minimum three-month period the drug of first choice is probably a cardioselective β-blocking agent such as atenolol or metoprolol or alternatively a calcium antagonist such as nifedepine . |
| 9 | In practice , the AIB inspectors know exactly what to look for in this highly technological activity while the coroner 's officer , who is usually a policeman — a PC or sergeant or occasionally an inspector — is totally in the dark . |
| 10 | Let's face it , a factory or studio or even a taxi firm that has fun in what they do is likely to communicate more , work more co-operatively and generally loosen up.There 's a hell of a way to go in changing our businessmen ( and women ) from the habits of macho corporatism but with fun as the name of the new game , the future looks rosy . |
| 11 | The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset . |
| 12 | A non-washable fabric needs white spirit or turpentine and then a dry-cleaning fluid . |
| 13 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 14 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 15 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 16 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 17 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 18 | But she ca n't bless the communion wine and wafers because only a priest can do that and at present women ca n't be ordained as priests . |
| 19 | The explanation usually offered for this phenomenon is that subjects implicitly attach a verbal label to pictures and objects and hence a verbal memory trace as well as a pictorial memory trace is established . |
| 20 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 21 | The purchaser will need to remember that a minimum delay of between 14 and 21 clear days may be needed in between exchange and completion if either an ordinary resolution or special resolution of shareholders is needed . |
| 22 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 23 | In two of the three morbidly obese subjects , there was an absence of the early urinary APGPR immunoreactivity peaks in concentration and excretion and only a slow rise in urinary APGPR concentration at four to six hours . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 25 | His mum had got the caterers in back at the house and there were great plates of sandwiches and cakes and even a couple of barrels of Tetley 's out in the kitchen with the head waiter from the restaurant at Mary Ann Evans 's dispensing from the tap . |
| 26 | In practice , the best combination of instruments for a particular procedure is largely a matter of trial and error but once a simple technique , such as the two-instrument injection method , has been mastered the principles of making and setting up extra instruments will be self-evident . |
| 27 | There were tall trees here and there on either side , oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut . |
| 28 | It contains a sensible stimulus , a great deal more federal spending , an energy tax , a guarantee of higher income tax for people and companies and only a promise of future spending cuts . |
| 29 | But — the thought upset her — would there be any spare money , any pocket-money , for her own small , personal needs , shampoos and stockings and perhaps a little face-cream , that sort of thing ? |
| 30 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |