Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and as a self-employed person , you get no sick pay or benefits , no training , no union protection or even much chance that you 'll ever be repaid for all those long hours of work . |
| 2 | But rare are the STV elections that do not require the transfer once , twice , three times or even more of votes surplus to a quota . |
| 3 | There is no question of a vehicle needing to be fitted with these lamps or indeed any other item — if the vehicle is of an age or type which does not require them . |
| 4 | If a team arrives at the finish without a bale or only some semblance of one , they are given a ten minute time penalty . |
| 5 | Upland farms usually have at least 50% or even all of the land classified as enclosed , sown , short-term and permanent pastures . |
| 6 | Sometimes it is valuable to emphasise the impetus itself , particularly if a bravura pirouette is needed to display a dancer 's particular expertise or perhaps some exhibitionist trait in the character portrayed . |
| 7 | A variety of features can be added by re-programming , including a redesigned display incorporating graphics , icons or almost any foreign language . |
| 8 | Chief among these special functions was a governmental or administrative duty at either local or provincial level or possibly both . |
| 9 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if she has been employed by you for a continuous period of at least five calendar years into the qualifying week for 8 hours or more each week , then she is also eligible . |
| 11 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 12 | What precisely he did with himself all day long she never could fathom , but he was not in her company above two hours or so each day . |
| 13 | He stays there for the hour or so that is necessary for all the tadpoles to emerge and then returns to his hole . |
| 14 | During the course of an hour or so these were removed and replaced with remarkable regularity . |
| 15 | Examination , Matriculation , Accommodation , purple lesions on the skin or just another female in the family way ? |
| 16 | Now not all the bi are divisible by p or else all the ai would be , contrary |
| 17 | I hope that Mr Cunningham will go to his Senior Common Room to borrow a copy of the Mail on Sunday , where he is , in effect , told off by Maeve Binchy : ‘ It 's a story where almost all sex is joyful , a lot of it carefree , most of it responsible in that puppy-like Lysander [ the main character ] usually remembers his condom . |
| 18 | The person who is sceptical toward one faith or even most faiths will be the devoted adherent of another . |
| 19 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 20 | It is true that they frequently spoke in terms of a division between Whigs and Tories , especially in Anne 's reign ; yet there were times when they rejected this language in favour of a distinction between Court and Country parties or even some multi-party formulation . |
| 21 | We were allowed to take the boat out ourselves by then as long as we wore life-jackets and we thought we might do that , later ; get in some fishing or just some pottering around . |
| 22 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 23 | Black holes might be useful for getting rid of garbage or even some of one 's friends . |
| 24 | There 's some Vauxhall advert the choice buy a Nova with a good deal or very little does n't make sense does it ? |
| 25 | Economically , in only a few cases will the conviction materially alter the performance of the employee or indeed those with whom he works . |
| 26 | I do not wish to know how to bring up my children , what view to have about drug addicts , how much Shakespeare should be taught in comprehensive schools or how much I must marvel at the achievements of members of the Commonwealth countries . |
| 27 | Both are lower in calories than practically any other first course you might pick — if they are enjoyed without buttered rolls . |
| 28 | Such is the Delors-led demand for uniformity that even this was mooted as a possibility . |
| 29 | We also have an ever-growing harbour complex , with the result that over half the city 's workforce are dependent on the transportation industry for their livelihood . |
| 30 | This had happened to Shona , whose boyfriend encouraged her to have the baby , and then left her , with the result that whenever any subsequent boyfriends have tried to get close , she becomes cold and distant , they can not understand and eventually leave her . |