Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where possible an indication should be given of the sub-system(s) and program(s) that are likely to be affected by the change . |
| 2 | ( That 's about two peanuts , or half an orange . ) |
| 3 | A brisk walk , say 20 minutes or half an hour , 3 times a week will do wonders for your circulation . |
| 4 | This may be every two hours , or half an hour after each meal . |
| 5 | It says it could be thirty minutes or half an hour on that one . |
| 6 | Or half an hour till half past ten |
| 7 | Short of actually some sort of war breaking out or some an incident breaking out whilst we were on the ground , I suppose they might have actually apprehended us , but otherwise I think the chances of anything happening to the people , or Ted Heath , who were out there were very , very slim . |
| 8 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 9 | The ICAEW rules do state that we should , under no various circumstances , promote or seek to promote our services in such a way or such an extent as to amount to harassment of a prospective client . |
| 10 | Too ‘ bad ’ for the council and too ‘ good ’ for the NHS is a recurrent problem , and , therefore , a range of services is needed to care for all possible problems , however unusual , complex , worrying or burdensome an individual 's difficulties may appear . |
| 11 | In applying this rule the words of the statute will be interpreted according to their natural , ordinary and grammatical meaning , but where such an interpretation produces a manifestly absurd result , the words will be interpreted so as to avoid the absurdity . |
| 12 | ‘ unless … ( a ) the court has deprived the first defendant ( as mortgagee ) of any relevant costs ; or ( b ) the court has ordered taxation of any relevant costs on some other basis save where there is no inconsistency between such an order and the preservation of the first defendant 's contractual right to payment of such costs ( for example , where such an order has been , or is hereafter , made against the mortgagors or any of them and other persons joined as co-plaintiffs or co-defendants with the mortgagors or any of them ) . |
| 13 | The Act had the effect of penalising extremely crude forms of racial abuse where such an intention could reasonably easily be inferred because of the overtness of the language or conduct in question . |
| 14 | Where such an undertaking has been given , the directors will need to consider whether the transaction in question requires shareholders ' approval as a result . |
| 15 | Where such an atmosphere of gloom persists it needs to be dispersed by affirming the Christian hope . |
| 16 | Where such an understanding develops the teacher is more able to relate to the child in the classroom . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Where such an alternative is reasonably available , it should be used . ’ |
| 18 | This is not too unscientific or random an approach , as it is often found that one can do an experiment in a defined situation and reinforce one 's findings by consulting one 's colleagues about their own experience . |
| 19 | OUR friends in the Vaux Bluebell Over 40s League , where many an ex-professional has had his energies redirected , have won a remarkable victory with worldwide implications . |
| 20 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 21 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 22 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 23 | It was resolved also that half an hour should be occupied each Sunday at the close of the School to teach the children the hymns of the Lancashire Sunday School Hymnbook . |
| 24 | Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . |
| 25 | Marks must have retired long since but he might still be around and , on the principle that half an hour 's chat over a beer is worth a whole file of police gobbledegook , Kersey decided to enquire and found that Marks was still extant , sharing a bungalow with his sister and her husband in Newlyn . |
| 26 | Derek can we take on the dockyards , Derek , I did indicate the situation that half an hour before speaking to congress my office has not been told officially by M O D of any change of a decision being made . |
| 27 | The wave was bigger than expected , although half an hour later , and on a bend at the Rea , Hempsted , Robert Diamond hit the bank in his own glassfibre craft and cartwheeled through the air before grasping the other boat . |
| 28 | I strode well away from the Land Rover but there were cockle shells everywhere and a few needle whelks , like minute unicorns ' horns less than half an inch long . |
| 29 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 30 | Pupils had found that the amount of work involved was more than half an Alevel and felt the exams had not proved credible with employers and higher education institutions . |