Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [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 | Parents and children will live near to other relatives or even share a house with them . |
| 6 | There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit . |
| 7 | Naturally the whole Guitarist team will be there , so come and see us , buy a T-shirt , take out a subscription , get yourself a CD , sort out some back issues or just have a chat . |
| 8 | Relevant , too , are the views of individual judges about the role of the courts in interpreting and applying legislation : some judges may be more prepared to find an ambiguity in statutory language than others or even to interpret a statute ‘ purposively ’ in order to achieve a desired result . |
| 9 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 10 | However , please bear in mind that hoteliers , shopkeepers and night club owners etc. may wish to maintain or improve their facilities or even take a break themselves . |
| 11 | If anyone believed that by wearing , bestowing or even consuming particular substances it was possible to avert poison and other evils or positively to advance a cause , it was comforting enough to ensure the continuity of such beliefs . |