Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Far better to remember that ivy does provide a very useful overwintering site for many small mammals and insects and also an essential nesting or roosting site for favourite garden birds . |
| 15 | Women make up over two-fifths of APA boards and committees and over a third of its main governing bodies . |
| 16 | At frieze-level there are not triglyphs and metopes but usually a row of small , close-set blocks , dentils , which offer no field for figure-carving . |
| 17 | The instrument panel and avionics fit were much more comprehensive than the average trainer , with ADF , RNav , Decca , and HSI and even a radio altimeter . |
| 18 | He never married , but there were nieces and nephews and always a stream of people staying . |
| 19 | As the manual tells you , by holding certain stitches in holding ( E ) position and knitting the remaining stitches in sequence you can work shoulder shaping , neck shaping , sock heels and toes and even a shaped hemline on skirts , while most attractive full skirts can be made on the same principle . |
| 20 | Directions and instructions and also a description of the Grimoire itself are contained in there . |
| 21 | In wartime , stations have been since the days of the American Civil War an essential element in the transportation of men and materials and consequently a military target of the first importance . |
| 22 | Not for the faint-hearted , the fair could reduce even the most hardened Frankfurt Book Fair stalwart to a whimpering wreck with its miles of cut-glass , Capo di Monte and leathergoods and scarcely a book in sight . |
| 23 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |
| 24 | No , he 's got some very strong views on the issues to do with computer literacy training and requirements and possibly a way of managing that together with all the other things . |
| 25 | The remaining dancers , holding each other very close , slowly circled the floor , which was littered with discarded flowers and dance-cards and even a pair of silk gloves . |
| 26 | The package includes a word processor , database , drawing and paint applications plus a spreadsheet with graphs and charts and finally a communications program . |
| 27 | Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination . |
| 28 | The result would have been world wars and migrations and eventually a weakening of life-instincts in favour of a self-destructive ethic of murder and suicide like that of the Fijians . |
| 29 | They may both have an outsize man 's old jacket , large shoes and socks and even a skirt or large pair of trousers ( pants ) . |
| 30 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |