Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 2 | Where manufacturers produce both an artists ' and a students ' paint , the artists ' range is the larger of the two , with the basic colours repeated in both ranges . |
| 3 | People seem to be able to identify easily with the small local council such as the parish or town council which represents an identifiable local community , such as a village or small town and also with their traditional county , but where areas have neither an identifiable community nor an historical association , problems can develop . |
| 4 | As children grow up , and the pedal bike becomes the motorbike , they have areas to test their skills , where tumbles cause only a bruise or a tear . |
| 5 | But they can not be too remote if a school — primary or secondary — is working to a curriculum blueprint which has been sought by successive governments and if we now accept that schools have only a limited choice in any broader expectations which society imposes upon them . |
| 6 | A Commission survey has shown that walkers have only a one-in-3 chance of being able to complete any 2 mile walk . |
| 7 | Although ales represent around a fifth of the nablab sector as a whole , The Brewers ' Society says it is ‘ so small a market that we do n't even bother to quantify it . ’ |
| 8 | Two headmasters have been told by staff at the Child and Family Therapy Unit in Ellesmere Port that children face almost a year 's wait . |
| 9 | With the exception of the GP , 1985 GHS data indicate that services reach only a minority of these two groups ( Table 7.7 ) . |
| 10 | It can not be sold ( in the absence of slavery ) and individuals have only a limited ability to transfer non-human wealth into human wealth ( though an individual can , of course , invest in himself through education or by undertaking training courses ) . |
| 11 | We find that : ( i ) there is disutility from being unemployed , with individuals disliking unemployment even more after the first three months ; ( ii ) unemployment benefits have no effect on the behaviour of the unemployed individuals after the first three months ; ( iii ) income receipts other than unemployment benefits and earnings have only a very small effect ; ( iv ) the conditional probability of leaving the unemployment spell shows no sign of decreasing with duration for most of the members of our sample , while 50% of the teenage men have an increasing hazard ; ( v ) the effects of unemployment benefits on the expected duration varies with age ; the average elasticity of 0.12 is much smaller than those estimated by NNS and NN , who used the same data set but different models . |
| 12 | Where primroses and cowslips grow together a few will be hybrids between the two with large primrose-like flowers on top of a tall stem , like a cowslip . |
| 13 | Female shoplifting offences exceed those of men , but women commit only a small percentage of sexual crimes and crimes of violence . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Price Waterhouse circulated a memorandum to some junior accountants offering ‘ increased opportunities ’ to work on charitable audits , normally unglamorous work of a low priority because firms charge only a nominal fee . |
| 15 | It is better to keep a pair — adult males have long ‘ bristles ’ on their heads , while females have only a fringe of very short tentacles around the snout . |
| 16 | Though volatiles represent only a tiny fraction of the masses of the terrestrial planets , they endow Venus , the Earth , and Mars with interesting phenomena such as atmospheres , oceans , polar caps and , at least in the case of the Earth , a biosphere . |