Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively . |
| 2 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 3 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 4 | The adventurers could use the information to denounce the suppliers to the authorities and hope for a reward ( or perhaps a Chaos cult declaring war on them ) , or less scrupulous characters might turn to blackmail , either for money or for magical training . |
| 5 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
| 6 | In general , the photograph will be protected by copyright which will be owned by the publisher or perhaps a freelance photographer . |
| 7 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 8 | They looked as if they needed alcohol , or perhaps a blood transfusion : they were cadaverous . |
| 9 | or perhaps a quiz show that started then , you know . |
| 10 | Or perhaps a 25p glass of Coke is better ? |
| 11 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 12 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 13 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 14 | Shape 's urgent duty was to discover whether this was the Emperor 's slashing stroke , or merely a cavalry raid launched deep into the Belgian province . |
| 15 | At the end of the day you are either a sticker person or not a sticker person . |
| 16 | when you say the entire procedure , would that of included or not a solicitors letter which is set out ? |
| 17 | However , as an illustration of the significance of the different approaches to public finance , we consider the recent debate in the UK about whether or not a poll tax ( ‘ community charge ’ ) should replace a system of domestic rates . |
| 18 | This too would have raised expenditure irrespective of whether or not a Speenhamland system existed . |
| 19 | a shop steward ) is liable for unprivileged acts in the course of a trade dispute , whether or not a trade union is liable . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 21 | In addition to the above elements , the King 's Fund also identified several other factors which determined whether or not a community care scheme would be successful . |
| 22 | Ms Garner said : ‘ Whether or not a murder charge stands or is reduced to manslaughter depends entirely on the individual case . |
| 23 | In a doorway , wedged between a Guardian leader writer and a Kleinian analyst , Alan Headleand and his ex-tutor Otto Werner from the LSE were debating with a fine abstraction and a noble disregard of interruption the question as to whether or not a television programme was a primary product or a service , and whether , by implication or extension , Charles 's production company , Global Information Network ( Telex GIN ) was allied in ideological terms with the manufacturing or the service industries : with equal commitment Esther Breuer and Jules Griffin ( colleague of Liz Headleand ) were discussing the nature of ancestral voices in schizophrenic patients and in the Homeric and Biblical epic , and the portrayal of the Holy Ghost in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts . |
| 24 | In the case of a company director , it will be important to establish whether there are director 's loan-accounts and , if so , whether personal guarantees have been given ; whether , if there is a buy/sell agreement , key-person assurance has been arranged ; and whether or not a pension scheme is in force . |
| 25 | I mean , is this your main home , or just a weekend retreat ? ’ |
| 26 | There has been little previous research into the origins of this group , nor into whether farm management is a career in its own right or just a stepping stone to becoming a tenant or owner-occupier . |
| 27 | Do you reckon it 's a full time job , or just a part time one ? |
| 28 | Where it 's already got A C G just after , is that the C O C T one , Jayne or just a careers officer one ? |
| 29 | Traditionally with relational database management systems companies would batch load data from the mainframe on maybe a a once a day or once a week basis and load that information onto the database systems and use it for decision support . |
| 30 | One possibility is to seek a parent company or preferably a bank guarantee , though this will involve the purchaser in some expense and may require a deposit to be made with the bank . |