Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burnham-on-Sea 's period charm has attracted families for more than a century and offers modern and traditional facilities . |
| 2 | Bellsdyke unit requires nursing staff to inform medical staff and the ICN if three or more patients have symptoms of enteric illness , or if an individual has diarrhoea for longer than a day . |
| 3 | He gave it the significance of a personal belief and turning lazily in his chair to inform Charles with more than a trace of arrogance , ‘ Old Guards ’ proverb . ’ |
| 4 | And since this means that at least 20 per cent of the captive-bred animals ( with no experience of the wild ) have been shown to be able to hunt for themselves , find shelter from the freezing conditions and evade predators for more than a month , Bob Oakleaf of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department considers the release a success . |
| 5 | There is no evidence that stress causes addiction as such although a stressful life event may trigger latent addictive disease . |
| 6 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 7 | Fitzgerald chief and B&WR Finance Director Peter Fitzgerald said : ‘ BR can not run traffic with less than a full train . |
| 8 | John , whose dazzling style won an Olympic gold medal at the 1976 Winter Games , has had treatment for more than a year at St Mary 's hospital , Paddington , West London . |
| 9 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 10 | To give details of the internal organisation of each of the foreign offices of Europe , and of the endless changes in detail which took place over more than a century , would be wearisome and repetitive . |
| 11 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 12 | After this , Peter attended counselling for more than a year . |
| 13 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a working party report urging positive action on equal opportunities by the Scottish Law Society has been gathering dust for more than a year . |
| 15 | The number of people out of work and claiming benefit for more than a year fell by 61,000 to a seven-year-low of 613,000 in the third quarter of the year , the Department of Employment said yesterday . |
| 16 | If you 're Toronto based , The Briars , a 200 acre world class resort on the south shores of Lake Simcoe , has welcomed guests for more than a century . |
| 17 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 18 | I 've always been too busy building up my business to spare time for more than a few brief affairs . ’ |
| 19 | Bonds are capital market securities and as such have maturities in excess of one year , unlike money market securities discussed in the last chapter which have maturities of less than a year . |
| 20 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |