Example sentences of "[conj] you buy a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight . |
| 2 | Another example : imagine that you buy a bar of chocolate , and later discover that you were short-changed by five pounds . |
| 3 | IMAGINE that you buy a car from a local garage . |
| 4 | - You find postal charges mysteriously a penny higher than you thought they were , so you buy a sheet of 1p stamps to upgrade all the old ones you have left , and then you find you have n't got any old ones left , only this big sheet of 1p stamps . |
| 5 | If you have been saving under the Homeloan scheme for two years or more you may qualify for an extra £600 loan and a cash bonus of £110 , provided you buy a house or flat below a certain price limit for each region . |
| 6 | They send you a Burton 's voucher to the value of whatever you 're looking for , be it ten quid or f and you go in there and you buy a suit you know and everybody 's happy . |
| 7 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 8 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 9 | If you buy a fruit or vegetable coated with pesticide residues then you are the person being poisoned . |
| 10 | If you buy a Shape yoghurt on its own . |
| 11 | If you buy a suit for a friend 's wedding , could you wear the jacket with jeans or plain twill pants ? |
| 12 | If you buy a metal arch , look for one that is sturdy , with joints with do n't pull apart easily , and make sure it can be well anchored into the ground . |
| 13 | If you buy a field guide to the birds or butterflies or mammals of an area , you will almost always find that the animals you see do clearly belong to one of the species described . |
| 14 | A sheep if you buy a sheepskin coat from a market stall then it should be sheepskin not made of manmade fibres and not made of any other animal . |
| 15 | In photography , even if you buy a Leica , you buy a flashgun from someone else . |
| 16 | Your solicitor will do a local search if you buy a property , but you may be renting in which case no one will do a search for you . |
| 17 | So , if you buy a yearling fish it will have consumed three years ' pellet rations and , hopefully , survived three merry-go-rounds of hazards . |
| 18 | ‘ Our boxes are environmentally-friendly and if you buy a bacon storer you know you have got it for life . ’ |
| 19 | If you buy a food labelled ‘ wholemeal bread ’ , ‘ beef stew and dumpling ’ or ‘ fish fingers ’ you 've a pretty good idea what 's inside . |
| 20 | You know if you buy a car that 's been , like it 's been pinched or something like that ? |
| 21 | If you , if you buy a house you sign a contract . |
| 22 | But they had a Mini before the Metro and er the day they bought the Mini they saw an advert in the paper saying that if you buy a Mini in the next few days |
| 23 | But you buy a bar . |
| 24 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 25 | In fact , since you buy a computer to solve problems , and not just to look good on a desk , the software available might be more important to you than the particular machine bought . |
| 26 | New dishwasher owners are usually horrified when they find that a 3 kg box of detergent costs anything between £2.59 and £5.93 , depending on where you shop and whether you buy a supermarket own brand or one of the well-known names such as Finish or Sun . |
| 27 | You must read the warranty carefully before you buy a computer . |
| 28 | Before you buy a computer , have a look at what sort of maintenance the company is offering . |
| 29 | The best test of hay is to buy a bale before you buy a truck-load , and to try it out on your horse or horses . |
| 30 | If possible read the manufacturer 's information and instructions before you buy a smoke alarm . |