Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 2 | In some cases when a property is to be monitored for a lengthy period , i.e. over 12 months , we are prepared to consider paying for temporary cosmetic repairs to keep the property more presentable internally . |
| 3 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 4 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 5 | By contrast , most privately rented accommodation is not available for short periods ( say for a few weeks while a house purchase is carried out ) . |
| 6 | A stiff neck for a few weeks after a bump was tolerated in the past . |
| 7 | He also struck me as a man who gave the most mature thought before uttering even one of these rare words ; and that if you said ‘ good morning ’ to him , he would reflect for some seconds while a number of questions passed through his mind . |
| 8 | McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them . |
| 9 | It is assumed , in addition , that all significant propositions , irrespective of their truth or falsity , must in principle be explicable in terms of propositions about such entities as a condition of their significance . |
| 10 | The list was so long because he counted every programme over £1m — the previous definition was over £5m — and included such projects as a car park at Medway Hospital in Kent . |
| 11 | De Gaulle saw all such plans as a way to reshape US domination of Western Europe . |
| 12 | I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall continue to take into account the view of the judiciary on the requirements of retribution and deterrence in such cases as a factor amongst others ( including the need to maintain public confidence in the system of justice ) to be weighed in the balance in setting the first review date . |
| 14 | BC is currently encouraged to adopt a speculative approach when drawing up such maps as a result of the pro-opencast policies in MPG Note 3 . |
| 15 | Given such winners as a guide , betting shops should start a book on the ilk of Hartung and Estève ( if still alive ) , and every contemporary sculptor , however meretricious , bent on an international round ( Jeff Koons for 1993 ? ) . |
| 16 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 17 | The blurring of boundaries , which took place at about that time , had created such anomalies as a householder having an Essex postal address while paying his rates to Suffolk County Council . |
| 18 | They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) . |
| 19 | Many employees do not worry about such matters until a dispute arises , but the provisions do enable employees and their advisers to obtain details of the main terms of the contract of employment without too much difficulty . |
| 20 | As indicated earlier , the United States straight bill of lading is , although not negotiable , a transferable document , and as such functions as a document of title . |
| 21 | Indeed , the theodicy question as to how one could ever use such texts as a medium through which to worship God may be thought to be even more insoluble than is Schüssler Fiorenza 's finding inspiration in the early Christian community . |
| 22 | The Workhorse is supplied as a single pair of hinges , for use as a sawbench ; or as two pairs , which can be used to create a stable trestle on uneven ground , for such applications as a garden barbecue or fête table . |
| 23 | It is absolutely essential that each parcel should be described with such particularity and precision that there is no room for doubt about the boundaries of each , and for such purposes if a plan is intended to control the description of part only of a building , an Ordnance map on a scale of 1:2500 is worse than useless ( Scarfe v Adams [ 1981 ] 1 All ER 843 ) . |
| 24 | Senior officers may also impose such conditions as a change of route or starting time in the interests of public order . |
| 25 | Often innkeepers will make exceptional arrangements for such persons as a gesture of goodwill ( e.g. letting them sleep in the lounge ) , but they can not legally be required to do so . |
| 26 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
| 27 | An occupational therapist makes sure she has such things as a walking frame , special lavatory seat and correctly shaped chair , and a district nurse visits each day . |
| 28 | It could include all the resources of the business , including the people of interest such as EMPLOYEE , and it can be extended to cover such things as a SALES-ORDER , INVOICE and PROFIT-CENTRE . |
| 29 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 30 | At the lowest level , symptoms to which network managers are alerted include such things as a file re-transmission , while the diagnosis module steps in when a symptom repeats itself frequently and triggers a threshold , or when there is a single instance of a major network problem . |