Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted that an employee will be in breach of his duty of good faith owed to his employer while employed by him if he makes , copies or deliberately memorizes a list of his employer 's customers for use after leaving this employment . |
| 2 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 3 | This timing gives some idea of how long their travelling habitually took : still in a post-chaise , and allowing an hour , say , for breakfast , they required seven hours or so to travel a distance of about twenty-eight miles . |
| 4 | This teleprinter machine was a temperamental beast and had to be carefully watched to make sure it did n't run out of paper , or chew it into shreds or otherwise make a mess of things , and it was one of our duties as Met Assistants to keep it in order . |
| 5 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 6 | A consortium of banks in the town of St Etienne , near Lyon , launched the country 's third experiment with ‘ electronic cash ’ — terminals in shops that automatically debit a customer 's bank account . |
| 7 | With great reluctance , as he maintained , Ledeen carried the message from Israel 's prime minister , Shimon Peres , to McFarlane in the summer of 1985 , asking him to approve the first shipment of arms from Israel to Iran ; McFarlane replied ‘ Okay , just that one shipment and nothing else ’ , words that soon acquired a hollow , awful sound . |
| 8 | Malham , though , has also been a favourite spot of mine for little walks , the sort of walks that only take an afternoon . |
| 9 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 10 | This would give you four separate pictures that together form a set , linked by the same frames and the colour pink . |
| 11 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |
| 12 | Tristan immediately threw out a band in a dramatic gesture and declaimed : " Speak on , sweet lips that never told a lie ! " |
| 13 | Whereas it is simple to make a robust chair , combining these three characteristics and yet producing a chair which has individual character can be a real challenge . |
| 14 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 15 | THE British Trust for Conservation Volunteers in Darlington need a new environment they are moving from their present offices and urgently need an alternative . |
| 16 | Hooper , chosen ahead of David James because of his experience , could not be faulted for either of the Russians ' goals and desperately wants a chance to make the Anfield number one shirt his own . |
| 17 | When he first knew her , when she was plump and big-boned , and had that corn-coloured hair and always wore pale grey , she would sit at Margaret 's parties and never say a word . |
| 18 | Voters had limited information about the policy positions of the parties and often supported a party in spite of its policies instead of because of them . |
| 19 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said gang members would buy written-off cars and then steal a vehicle of the same model . |
| 20 | The tendency of the later 1960s was to move away from packaged courses towards ‘ options ’ in the hope that many pupils would be able to choose from a wide range of subjects and so assemble a programme best fitted to their own interests and abilities . |
| 21 | The following passage is taken from my book ‘ Managing Stress ’ and you will see how it is possible to extract from the text the relevant key words and then to create a thought-flow chart from them : |
| 22 | One can reconstruct the original language by looking for common words and then make a guess about where the language came from . |
| 23 | The cases where there is the most sustained coverage are acquittals and yet obtaining an acquittal for this group of offences is a comparatively rare phenomenon , both as a proportion of cases reported in newspapers and what actually happens in the court . |
| 24 | Economic theory would lead you to expect a net gain even in the EC — making it possible to compensate Western Europe 's producers for their losses and still show a gain for consumers and taxpayers . |
| 25 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 26 | You you you used to break windows but it was n't done like you see now people , kids s picking up bricks and just breaking a window for the sheer delight of it . |
| 27 | This does not order the probes but instead takes a contig list as input and computes every inconsistent hybridisation ( defined as any link between a probe in one contig and a clone in another ) . |
| 28 | They were allowed to speak to each other in low voices but never to interrupt an adult . |
| 29 | If at all possible select pairs that already have a track record for breeding . |
| 30 | No difference was found in the aspartate aminotransferase levels at the start of the two courses ; however , both courses seemed to induce a peak of aspartate aminotransferase values that often preceeds a response to therapy . |