Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays . |
| 2 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 3 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 4 | So far I have left open the question of whether Maastricht is likely to prove to have been the high-water mark of European Federalism or merely a bench-mark against which to test future movement towards a Federalist state . |
| 5 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 6 | ( e ) Bedding wall plates — rate per linear m or alternatively a lump sum item . |
| 7 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 8 | A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole . |
| 9 | A year of continuous musical training at a conservatoire and she would be fit for a top orchestra or even the concert platform . |
| 10 | Some propositions can be subjected to experimental test and the results used in the creation of an extended thesis or alternatively an antithesis . |
| 11 | In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ? |
| 12 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 13 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 14 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
| 15 | Disappearance of their dominance would lead to a unified Ireland or else the restructuring of a new statelet with smaller geographical boundaries in which their dominance was again reassured . |
| 16 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 17 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 18 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 19 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 20 | The submissive spouse or even the martyr may be giving rein in an oblique way to a desire for mental or physical pain . |
| 21 | And the child grew in wisdom and strength , but his flesh was no mere phantom or merely the appearance of flesh : he belonged to the human race . |
| 22 | Some are remarkably hardy , whereas others need the protection of a warm wall or even a greenhouse . |
| 23 | Manson & Co. guitars are n't as cheap as Japanese imports but what you 're getting is one of the classiest handmade acoustics in Britain , fully customised to your requirements with extra inlays or even a pickup , and left-handers do n't cost a bean extra . |
| 24 | No wonder people sometimes start right off with an official complaint or even a writ . |
| 25 | The Throwbag Holster from Suzy is a carrying device for the Green Slime 's Rescue Throwbag , other line of similar size or even a camera , flares at sea or other item of equipment . |
| 26 | The user can specify an issue number or use the default which is the latest version , and can specify an optional parameter allowing either the entire structure or just the root package to be read out . |
| 27 | Standing around , waiting for the police to arrive , the resident and the intern made bets on whether the case would be a real emergency or just a teenager who had swallowed too much aspirin . |
| 28 | Decide whether the pest is a serious threat or merely a nuisance . |
| 29 | All too often the profit earned on an individual house or indeed a development as a whole is less than would have been made if the site had merely been left undeveloped and sold at the end of the development period . |
| 30 | It is nevertheless chaotic , as is seen when one considers the duration of each interval or equivalently the number of oscillations within it . |