Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order .
2 So that fellow Smallholders can each exchange their Smallholding and responsibilities with like minded anywhere in the country for little expense other than a registration fee , cost of food and petrol to get there .
3 By comparison , a sheepdog has been recorded barking for seven hours non-stop and a cocker spaniel is capable of cramming over 900 yelps into a ten-minute period .
4 Visually the film is closer to a Babycham commercial than a Tenniel illustration . ’
5 When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size .
6 The others were given to an arts group , a sports individual and a sports group .
7 When choosing dowel at any place other than a kite store which would have selected its stock , rotate the spar between thumb and forefinger of one hand while resting the dowel in the other hand and check that the spar is straight .
8 Most blinds other than a roller blind will screen out too much light .
9 the charge to call an O eight nine eight number from any phone other than a pay phone is thirty six pence per minute at cheap rate and forty eight per minute at all other times , over half of this money is paid by B T to the business providing the informational service
10 A failure on the part — ( a ) of a police officer to comply with any provision of such a code ; or ( b ) of any person other than a police officer who is charged with the duty of investigating offences or charging offenders to have regard to any relevant provision of such a code in the discharge of that duty , shall not of itself render him liable to any criminal or civil proceedings .
11 B.B.C. the House of Lords decided that a valuation court was not a court of law , the proceedings of which might be protected from outside influence by the law of contempt .
12 It 's a touch disappointing when a Windows product comes on one disk , especially one that costs as much as Financial Controller — you rather get used to having eight or ten high density disks to feed into you machine .
13 Save as provided in the said regulation 36 and without derogation from the provisions of the last preceding paragraph of this regulation , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade licence , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence for a purpose other than a business purpose and other than one of the following purposes :
14 The news broadcast had moved on to other matters now ; the loss of contact between Earth Central and a Space Fleet flotilla which had been on its way to intercept a supposed alien fleet near Epsilon Eridani .
15 Formulary procedure had known no judgment other than a money judgment , but the extraordinary procedure was free from this traditional restraint , for it was based on quite different principles .
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