Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ The plaintiffs ] had no intention of creating any charge over book debts or merely making a series of loans . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within a week of the sad news , they had organised whip-rounds and even staged a charity rock concert at a local club . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Barry Stewart , prosecuting , said gang members would buy written-off cars and then steal a vehicle of the same model . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | One can reconstruct the original language by looking for common words and then make a guess about where the language came from . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Additionally , in some urban areas neighbourhood councils have been formed but these have no statutory functions and merely provide a sounding board for local opinion . |
| 20 | It exports to most other European countries and also has a presence in the US and Brazil . |
| 21 | The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty , bendy and muddy course . |
| 22 | She withdrew fifty millilitres of completely unnecessary blood from the patient 's arm , filled up the appropriate bottles and then put a blob on the treated strip and glanced at her watch . |
| 23 | With Allen 's help she bathed it with wine from the last of the Friar 's bottles and then made a pad of cooling leaves and re-bandaged it . |
| 24 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 25 | The plot is said to bring the disbanded soul group together in New York , where they hang out in Irish pubs and eventually play a concert . |
| 26 | Trade creation induces a rise in imports and hence induces a deficit in the balance of trade . |
| 27 | He started to plot lines of ancient sites and quickly got a feel for those which cropped up most frequently . |
| 28 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |
| 29 | Burglars cut the telephone wires and then used a spade to force open a window at a house in Salcombe Drive on The Fens estate in Hartlepool . |
| 30 | My one criticism of SansAmp has always been the harshness of the top end ; the GX-7 certainly has less odd harmonics and so produces a distortion sound which is more pleasing to the ear . |