Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be further noted : ( a ) That the extent of the duty of good faith will vary according to the nature of the contract ; ( b ) That the duty of good faith will be broken if an employee makes or copies a list of the customers of the employer for use after his employment ends or deliberately memorises such a list , even though , except in special circumstances , there is no general restriction on an ex-employee canvassing or doing business with customers of his former employer . |
| 2 | They might not be doing your figure or teeth a lot of good , but there is no proof that they trigger acne . |
| 3 | A generation that 's gone to prison more often than it 's gone to schools or cinemas a generation where family life is not known where the horrible migrative system destroyed any idea of family life how do we reconstruct ? |
| 4 | There was only one form of public transport , the carrier 's horse and cart that went once or mice a week to the town , and even then with little room or encouragement for passengers . |
| 5 | The amount of money paid out depended on how many hours , days or weeks a prisoner had been helped or sheltered for . |
| 6 | The time demanded in maintaining roses is not great , it does not mean a number of hours or days a week , but it does mean a regular tour around , if only of a few minutes ' duration , perhaps in the evenings , with secateurs in hand to snip or prune away faded flowers , and a puff or spray here and there as and when you find aphids or other pests . |
| 7 | If it is practicable to make repeated visits to the same site over a period of months or years a programme of capture/mark/release and recapture will add a further dimension to the whole range of topics available . |
| 8 | In a case where a principal instructs as selling agent for his property or goods a person who to his knowledge acts and intends to act for other principals selling property or goods of the same description , the terms to be implied into such agency contract must differ from those to be implied where an agent is not carrying on such general agency business . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't cost British industry or taxpayers a thing , but of course they take all their expertise abroad . |
| 10 | When repetitive steps are present in either activities or resources a copy command performs these with minimum effort . |
| 11 | If you care for a relative or close friend on a long-term basis and feel unable to return to full-time work it may still be possible to make alternative arrangements in order to work for one or more days or nights a week . |
| 12 | It is important to build a new structure for the week with a basic plan be out so many days or evenings a week , or so many hours a day . |
| 13 | We saw Ede working on the building of a dam which would improve the water supply by 900 per cent and thereby reduce the hunger and disease that lakes a toll of half the children up to five , The other side of his work is to build up grass-roots organisations so the campesinos can protect their rights . |
| 14 | Women received , on average , 46% more items than men a year ( women 9.7 , men 6.6 items ) . |
| 15 | And they may be asked to play the role of " devil 's advocate " , preventing forecasters and marketers a like from becoming complacent and insular , losing sight of the continuous impact of the external environment on the business . |
| 16 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
| 17 | Workouts take the battle between creditors and shareholders a step further . |
| 18 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 19 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 20 | I Jordan de Blossevilla give in free alms to God and St Pancras and the monks … for the welfare of my soul and of my ancestors and successors a portion of my land in Bevenden lying by my well on the south side containing 4 perches in length and 2 in breadth ; to hold in tree alms , with a tree way of going in and out with the easement of drawing water in any well . |
| 21 | Since the arrival of the very first ship , the Annika , this Belfast to Rotterdam service has grown from a weekly to a twice weekly sailing , offering importers and exporters a choice of shipping at the beginning or at the end of the week . |
| 22 | STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN Unfortunately more interesting than 19-year-old Matty Rich 's film — a slice-of-Brooklyn melodrama crusted with symbolism and piety — is the story of how it came to be made : ambitious kid from Brooklyn drops out of film school , blags some equipment and funds a film on the back of radio appeals . |
| 23 | ( For most of his adult life he suffered in wrists and legs a condition diagnosed as ‘ gout ’ but which may have been rheumatoid arthritis . ) |
| 24 | It 's of tremedous valuer because it give patients and clients a chance to do things they wouild n't otherwise do |
| 25 | struggle between two conceptions of the press : the one of a Fourth Estate , with proprietorship a form of public service and journalists a species of public philosophers ; the other of the press as an industry , with proprietors as businessmen and journalism a trade or craft . |
| 26 | For example , in certain limbless lizards and snakes a limb bud develops but the apical ridge dies thus stopping limb development . |
| 27 | ‘ And thanks a lot for that , Erika . |
| 28 | ‘ And thanks a lot . ’ |
| 29 | Such oddities can often been spotted , because to the birds and animals a power station is simply a secluded often borne refuge from a hostile world |
| 30 | It is the stuff from which social history , and columns a century hence , are made . |