Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally with relational database management systems companies would batch load data from the mainframe on maybe a a once a day or once a week basis and load that information onto the database systems and use it for decision support . |
| 2 | Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done , the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child . |
| 3 | Aptly named Tumbler is an ideal tomato for a large basket or even a patio tub or window box . |
| 4 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 5 | Although also a shire town and centre of a big diocese , the absence of truly rich citizens made it hardly more impressive a place than Chichester , which was much smaller ( Table 2.8 ) . |
| 6 | They walked and walked , at first along tiled and bleakly lit corridors under electric lighting , and then along dusty carpets in dark shuttered places , and up a stone staircase and then further up a winding wooden stair , cloudy with dark dust . |
| 7 | The two tram routes departed from opposite sides of the central loading island in the Square , where for many years there was an ornamental drinking fountain and later a stone shelter and underground toilets . |
| 8 | Your school may well have school rules and even a discipline policy but do you have a policy for catching children being good ? |
| 9 | Thieves broke into a garage at a house in Low Green , Great Ayton , and got into a Porsche car and then a BMW car and stole a £271 radio/cassette stereo from the BMW . |
| 10 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 11 | The main thing to cut is saturated fat which can cause high blood cholesterol levels , leading to clogged up arteries and potentially a heart attack or stroke . |
| 12 | Sandra Bishop , who lives in a new two-bedroomed council flat on a new estate with her husband ( a painter and decorator ) and one child aged eighteen months , lacks several aids which many women would consider essential , including a hoover and either a washing machine or access to a launderette . |
| 13 | Not bad , but not a matinee idol or anything . |
| 14 | A Go-Kart is in a similar position , but both a dumper truck and a Go-Kart can become ‘ motor vehicles ’ if it can be proved that they have been adapted or intended for use on roads . |
| 15 | When I looked I found I had not only a gun but also a kitchen knife and a saw . |
| 16 | In the Aleutian island of Unimak on the 1st April 1946 , a tsunami produced by a local submarine earthquake swept away not only a massive lighthouse on a promontory nearly 10 m above the sea , but also a radio mast and coastguard station with 20 men more than 30 m up . |
| 17 | For carcinomas there was a significant influence of age ( factor 6.14 ) , but neither a sex influence nor a mutual effect could be shown . |
| 18 | Officially , a spokesman for Trainload Freight sector said BR was in negotiation with PowerGen about a new contract , but it is understood that BR sees the contract cancellation as merely a negotiation ploy and feels a new deal could be struck . |
| 19 | Just as long as not a South Westerly or a gale . |
| 20 | The Trust is also keen to develop the district site across the road as both a GP centre and a nursing home . |
| 21 | As both a guitar fetishist and a hi-fi victim I read with interest the letter from Jonathan Simmonds in the June issue , since his comments about Eric Johnson 's ability to hear the difference between jack plugs reminds me of the debate in the hi-fi world a while back about whether interconnect and speaker cables made any difference to the sound of a system . |
| 22 | Also as both a rugby player and as a cricketer he played the game with distinction at first-class level . |
| 23 | Available as both a network feeder and network node — and compatible with the existing members of the family — the 10K enables customers to build networks supporting thousands of users in up to 250 locations , the company says . |
| 24 | The jewel in the Cobra 's head has its counterpart in Australian Aboriginal folklore in the form of the quartz crystal which enshrines the colours and essence of the rainbow , and the Rainbow Serpent of Australian mythology is closely related to the Indian Spectacled Cobra in terms of its role as both a fertility symbol and a symbol of higher consciousness . |
| 25 | In the mid-1840s the Crayford business was sold and by 1845 he was working in Dartford , as both a silk printer and a printing-machinery manufacturer . |
| 26 | Enabling you to allocate different joystick commands to the three coloured pedals , this nifty little piece of hardware will certainly add a good deal of realism to any driving games you may have in your collection ( except Hard Drivin' , of course , as even a steering wheel and gear shift could n't fuel-inject any realism into that ! ) . |
| 27 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 28 | Though primarily a research botanist and unwilling to be distracted by teaching , she gave a course on the ancestry of the angiosperms at the University of London in 1907 . |
| 29 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 30 | It supports conventional , XMS and EMS memory for its buffers and can be installed as either a device driver or TSR program . |