Example sentences of "[art] [noun] or [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 2 | The most frequently quoted definition of non-natural user is that given by the Judicial Committee in Rickards v. Lothian , ‘ It must be some special use bringing with it increased danger to others and must not merely be the ordinary use of the land or such a use as is proper for the general benefit of the community . ’ |
| 3 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
| 4 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 5 | If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view . |
| 6 | something which they may have saved for themselves or perhaps by doing an odd job here and there , and working a day or two a week , which will not make too great demands on their strength , but will just keep the household going . |
| 7 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 8 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 9 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 10 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 11 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 12 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
| 13 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 14 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 15 | it was a stone or half a brick . |
| 16 | Anyone might , anyone could , anyone would be welcome for a time or half a time . |
| 17 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 18 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 19 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 20 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 21 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
| 22 | I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait , especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes . |