Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 2 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 3 | A government 's plans are sometimes implemented with little or no regard for an individual 's family plans . |
| 4 | Different constituents will move through the system at different rates and one time-step in the simulation could represent a day for mobile salts but as much as a millennium for a relatively immobile element such as aluminium . |
| 5 | In the first month of that decree more than 180,000 passports were issued , twice as many as the average for an entire year under the previous regime . |
| 6 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 7 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 8 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 9 | Remove " the tough talk , all the swagger and the patriotic posturing " , he said , " and protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smokescreen for a country that 's running scared " . |
| 10 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 11 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 12 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 13 | The principle is essentially the same as the support for a cupboard on a wall — its main support comes from a horizontal batten and simple screws keep it vertical . |