Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb base] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Appeal to labour solidarity wo n't wash either when most of the labour force is non-unionized , many of whom earn only a pittance in the secondary labour market .
2 The pressure came from John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , who put forward an amendment to the Carrying of Knives etc ( Scotland ) Bill calling for the planned six-month jail sentence or fine of up to £1,000 to be increased to two years or an unlimited fine .
3 Johnston was important as a systematic thinker who put together a package of ideas on the links between Marxist and republican politics .
4 But the last thing I did was for a guitar player in Nashville , Chip Young , who put together an album — which incidentally is getting released pretty soon — and he has ten tracks with ten different guests : local session players , myself , Chet 's on one , Grady Martin , Jerry Reed , Jerry Kennedy , Wayne Moss and various other guys , but I think guitar players out there will like it . ’
5 An invasion by Uganda-based rebels , launched on the night of Sept. 30-Oct. 1 , threatened the 17-year regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana , who cut short a visit to North America on hearing that his country was under attack .
6 At present the Board consists of 28 Directors who meet once a year .
7 I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for
8 Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’
9 Can this be the Arthur Wellesley who set aside a sum of money to educate two of the slain Tipu Sahib 's sons , whose letters of gratitude I still have ?
10 Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday .
11 If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) .
12 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 .
13 It was indeed a failure of such imagery , but it must be remembered that the very image of society , and in some cases of socialism , the council estate embodied was that imposed by academics and professionals , and never that of the residents , who have neither a place in the construction of that image , nor the means for its appropriation .
14 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 .
15 Voters with above the minimum of education are more likely than those who have only a minimum of education to vote Conservative .
16 A deep black dado below the white walls surrounds the room in order to provide an enhanced sense of perspective to those who see only a blur and have to find their way using very little visual data .
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