Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | This is n't such a monumental task but for the arrival of another 150,000 visitors who have exactly the same plans ! |
2 | In the case of parents who have either no children or normal children , there is little scope at present for identifying the likelihood of having a mentally handicapped child . |
3 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
4 | But this chorus of praise has been cancelled out by opponents who question both the fiscal and museological sense of the transaction . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | If you want the best Basmati rice , look for Tilda Basmati , Brown Basmati and Easy Cook Basmati : Tilda selects its Basmati from its own highly trained buyers who purchase only the finest quality of Basmati from the season 's crop . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
10 | This large and increasing number of old , and very old , people will contain a high proportion of individuals who have either no family setting and connections , or at any rate none that is of practical relevance to their way of life . |
11 | The best advice I can give you is simply to go for unfair dismissal on the basis that you 've got two managers who do exactly the same job , there 's no need for you to go on site , there are other drivers that could get you there , therefore it 's not necessary to finish your job simply because you 've lost your licence . |
12 | Thus he defines professional jobs as those of producers who define both the needs of the consumer and how those needs should be met . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It 's about two men who go away every weekend doing different things . |
17 | A survey done by Barclaycard revealed that of the 20 million British tourists who go abroad every year for their holidays : |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I know of others who feel much the same — it 's called consensus politics , and it requires cooperation and a concentration on what the parties have in common rather than exaggerating their differences . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | These gullible Annamese peasants are the ones who do all the hard , dirty work to make them rich . |
22 | The groups are facilitated by University medical , nursing , education , and counselling students who help direct the interviews and lead youth through a defined curriculum . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
25 | The ‘ Mef have got a growing audience of hardcore stagedivers who have absolutely no doubts about the band 's credibility . |