Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about a clerical job or a nice doctor 's job ? ’ |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Short term relief or a good night 's sleep to help you recover is the best you can expect . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Rowland says most can be introduced immediately , without either membership approval or a new Lloyd 's Act . |
| 4 | I would find the same difficulty in putting down words for a dragonfly above a summer pond or a new spider 's web hung with dew on a spring hedgerow . |
| 5 | A newspaper , because it is a ‘ news ’ medium , may seem appropriate for a sale or a new product 's launch , where a magazine might not . |
| 6 | Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group , people in a particular employment or a young people 's counter-culture and so on . |
| 7 | But I am too honest — or too ungenerous : clamped tight like a mean smile or a poor woman 's purse . |
| 8 | The holder may supply liquor to persons taking table meals on the premises , to residents or private friends of residents being bona fide entertained by them , to the private friends for their own or the resident 's consumption , and to a resident for his own or a private friend 's consumption with a meal supplied at the premises but to be consumed off them . |
| 9 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 10 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 11 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 12 | URGENT — NDO would like to hear from any teacher interested in a men 's class in London SW1 ( evening ) or a handicapped children 's class at Dartford . |
| 13 | We 're brought up short when we recollect what we used to know — useless knowledge , if we work in an ad agency or a civil engineer 's office , the mere residue of an undirected education — but knowledge which is still appealing , for all its uselessness . |
| 14 | In the survey of people who had used the tape ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ , produced by the Liverpool based Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction [ CITA ] , four out of five anxiety sufferers questioned said they had benefited from it , experiencing a reduction in their anxiety , fewer panic attacks or a better night 's sleep . |
| 15 | , the other way , the other way of , in which you can get more close to live Amnesty is to affiliate as a school group or a youth group or a religious group erm , that 's nice to see you tonight . |
| 16 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 17 | So that would make erm er five one six five as a married man 's or a married couple 's allowance as it 's now called , plus the three four four five . |
| 18 | Just as he ate with relish in the three-star Auberge de lI 'll or a Greek working-man 's café , so he could be both careless and dandified about his clothes . |
| 19 | There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward . |
| 20 | That 's like full of about dozen or so papers each one I think , if it 's the book I 'm thinking of , is about a different community or a different language er so you might find some information about Samoa where there 's a different societal hierarchical structure . |
| 21 | What stopped people surfing Pipeline was only in part the wave itself — not so much perpendicular as concave , bent over like the hook of a question mark or a twitching scorpion 's tail . |
| 22 | To do this , place the stencil card on top of a hard , even surface , such as a sheet of hardboard or a special designer 's cutting board . |
| 23 | Where an assistant solicitor 's employment came to an end on the dissolution of the firm , such dissolution was held to constitute a breach of his contract of employment such that the restrictive covenants imposed on him ceased to be enforceable — see Briggs v Oates [ 1990 ] ICR 473 . |
| 24 | But you see the point , so in our species and of course in most societies this is true men are breadwinners whether in an agricultural society or an industrial society erm you know one often feels that if you 're the man in the family you earn all the money your wife spends it on most of the time erm it certainly happens to me er |
| 25 | It 's up to Social Services , and Social Services may choose , although I have got to say it 's unlikely , to register a children 's or an elderly person 's home despite the fact that we 've given advice that they should n't . |
| 26 | Comparing two different accounts of the place , for instance , or an adverse traveller 's account and a hotel advertisement persuading people to stay there might lead to a discussion on interpretations in history . |
| 27 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 28 | The vibrator , too , might well have some other application like soothing a dog 's or an old lady 's rheumatic shoulder . |
| 29 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
| 30 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |