Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 2 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 3 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 4 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 5 | And this it may do more than a hundred times a second in perfect synchrony with the clicks of the calls . |
| 6 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 7 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 8 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 9 | For example , if the accused hires a room for gymnastics when it is used for band practice , he is guilty . |
| 10 | If the accused hits a constable while resisting arrest and the constable bangs his head on a kerbstone causing serious injury , he is guilty of GBH with intent . |
| 11 | The latter belief explicitly rejects consistency as a virtue in its own right , while the former demands a balancing of public interests against those of the particular defendant in the light of moral judgements that only the magistrate is qualified to make . |
| 12 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 13 | When an accused faces a number of charges , it is very common for the defence advocate to offer a reduced plea to a number of the charges , provided others , often more serious ones , are dropped . |