Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , reflects Neneh , ‘ Naima and I are really like partners — she trusted me to give her strength and security , and I gained a life in my life — that 's been a complete life-saver a lot of the time . |
| 2 | There had been a severe tremor a couple of years before and repair work was still going on . |
| 3 | You are a thousand times a properer man |
| 4 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 5 | If integration at school age and afterwards is to be a real possibility a family with a handicapped child needs to be involved in the community , making friends and developing natural support systems from the beginning . |
| 6 | A fat salary , reputed to be a combined $120,000 a month for all three , might be part of the answer . |
| 7 | But even that can be a hundred pounds a week — still too much for many . |
| 8 | But , if you use your imagination , it could be a glorious retreat a place to go and hide , a nest for lovebirds , an island of Eden , and on a sunny afternoon , lazing around in your own private kingdom beats life on a busy housing estate . |
| 9 | That , considering the combined contribution the new company must make to the Government for its franchise will be a punishing £50m a year , might prove difficult to resist . |
| 10 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 11 | or whatever and they were a hundred pounds a week or |
| 12 | He received it as if it were a precious relic a saint had just blessed , and folded it carefully . |
| 13 | Where a farmhouse or other building is regarded as being a private dwellinghouse a bank/organisation will only be required to notify its interest to an insurer where the sum insured exceeds the threshold . |
| 14 | Boswell 's observation that the King should intervene to stop people being forced from the land was augmented by Johnson 's opinion that ‘ were an oppressive chieftain a subject of the French king , he would probably be admonished … ’ |
| 15 | that 's a thousand times a roll times a roll one ooh ooh ooh ! |
| 16 | It 's a hundred pound a month in n it ? |
| 17 | What I want to look at now , a new sub-heading , and it 's the relationship , right , between total , average and marginal functions As you may be aware that economists are obsessed with the concept of the margin and there 's a neat relationship a couple of relationships embedded , alright , er embedded in this relationship between total marginal and average functions that is applicable to all total marginal and average functions whether we whether we be looking at marginal cost , marginal revenue , marginal products , right , the same relationship will hold for all of them . |
| 18 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 19 | The minimum launch subscription is £500 lump sum but there is a minimum £25 a month regular savings option through F&C 's monthly savings scheme . |
| 20 | So South West is is a hundred pounds a year more than ours . |
| 21 | Well Sue was Sue erm over the road was telling me erm the money her boys give is a hundred pound a month . |
| 22 | Their asking price is a hundred quid a night , payable on demand in US currency only ; around two hundred dollars . |
| 23 | That 's right but twenty five quid is a hundred quid a month , in n it ? |
| 24 | Nor is a spiritual director a guru to whom we turn to satisfy our needs for dependence , even though we may recognize the hand of God providing this particular person at this particular time . |
| 25 | ( Note : When the seller is a public authority a variation of this clause is used ) . |
| 26 | Though this is not to say that abortion is a topic to be taken lightly as it is a human life a woman is dealing with and I think she should think carefully about all her options before she makes a decision but in the end it is her baby and up to her what happens . |
| 27 | ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered . |
| 28 | This certainly makes room for the many capitalist configurations found in history But some of Poulantzas ' critics have complained that , instead of creating a theory , all he has provided is an overblown list a set of descriptive categories so various as to be applicable to any social formation , and lacking any explanatory bite . |
| 29 | To set a C.B. up all you have to have is an actual set a microphone and a C.B. aerial . |
| 30 | Beer was a mere 75p a pint ; top table wallahs paid 75p less than that . |