Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time .
2 The same survey also says that ungrateful employers leave nearly all travel arrangements to their secretaries with scarcely a word of thanks .
3 Hearing : After they have been in their homes for quite a short time , people who live near railway lines cease to hear the sound of the passing trains , even though the noise may seem deafening to a visitor .
4 He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months .
5 But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them .
6 It 's worth noting that workers blame their jobs for over a quarter of any violent incidents in which they are involved — these kinds of crime can cost business dearly !
7 A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time .
8 Colleagues this is taking away the trade union 's right to negotiate a redundancy package on behalf of our members we need to negotiate a package when it 's required for the members and for the members being forced out of their jobs with just a statutory they should recompense their service .
9 And they do ask you questions on quite a lot of them .
10 Watson 's remark in a BBC Radio 4 interview reiterated his views of almost a decade earlier .
11 The plasterer dressed in his working clothes of fustian splashed with white lime , seen in the Little Dorrit illustration saying goodbye to the Father of the Marshalsea , managed to settle with his creditors after only a week .
12 ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’
13 Already Gazza has restricted his interviews to twice a week after being hounded by the Italian Press .
14 Ideally you should review this action list daily and never let a day pass without doing something to progress your priorities in even a minor way .
15 Next , hold the foot between both your hands for about a minute or two to soothe it .
16 We discreetly discussed who they might be , and finally placed our bets on either a WRVS rambler 's club from Perth , or a group of senior women 's prison officers on an Outward Bound course .
17 So , we if we our receptionist if we can say those are our key specifications , again it 's a loose idea this is not easy sometimes to look into it , partly because we 've been in our jobs for quite a while and you know we do n't , we can clarify it , but think about your subordinates and people that might be trained .
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