Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |