Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [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 | They had no windows or windscreen and only a canopy and storm curtains for protection . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset . |
| 8 | A non-washable fabric needs white spirit or turpentine and then a dry-cleaning fluid . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There were tall trees here and there on either side , oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 18 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 19 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 20 | No doubt we will feel better without the pain and discomfort and often a spell away from the stressful situation will alleviate some of the effects . |
| 21 | Out of sight , shielded by riot and revelry and now a quarter of a century older , lurks the poet who boasted he had not shown his young mug in Poor People : the sober laborious craftsman determined that his tone shall save everything . |
| 22 | ( An attempt to hold elections in November 1987 was called off when voters were massacred by Duvalierist gangs ; the subsequent poll , held in January 1988 , was dominated by Duvalierist candidates and involved considerable fraud and intimidation and only a fraction of the electorate participated — see p. 35697-98 ; 25698-99 . ) |
| 23 | Expert systems can produce solutions with the speed , recall , accuracy and consistency that only a computer can provide . |
| 24 | To the English critic ‘ HD ’ the word ‘ cinema ’ conjured up memories of ‘ crowds and crowds and saccharine music and longdrawn out embraces and the artificially enhanced thuds-off of galloping bronchoes ’ and then again ‘ boredom , tedium , suffocation , pink lemonade , saw-dust even , old reactions connected with cheap circuses , crowds and crowds and illiteracy and more crowds and breathless suffocation and ( in America ) peanut shells and grit and perhaps a sudden collapse of jerry-built scaffoldings ’ . |
| 25 | This was so in Bedfordshire , for example : in 1952 the District Council carried a motion deploring ‘ the withdrawal of the services of a full-time officer of the WEA from Bedfordshire when so large a proportion of branches in the area are so recently formed and still in need of assistance and encouragement that only a full-time organiser or tutor-organiser can give ’ . |
| 26 | With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind . |
| 27 | And my mum and dad and probably a couple of the s little kids with them as well . |
| 28 | Not on that evening , but long afterwards , Nicandra was to understand something of Aunt Tossie 's efforts for this celebration : this party for her darling , into which she had thrown heart and soul and quite a lot of money . |
| 29 | Just bread and butter and fucking a big slab of beef . |
| 30 | The defendants argued , inter alia , that there was no reliance on the seller 's skill and judgment but rather a reliance by the buyer on his own understanding of the manufacturer 's instructions . |