Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other things to think about when you 're identifying training alright a handout for you identifying training needs at this stage just to make sure that ya the are still out . |
| 2 | France has been paying US$20 million a year to have nuclear waste reprocessed in Russia , reportedly at the Tomsk plant . |
| 3 | Cellnet is said to be spending £3 million a week improving the cellular phone network , and until recently Racal was spending £2 million a week . |
| 4 | the industry ought to be spending £310 million a year to maintain the system in its existing state . |
| 5 | Why ca n't some of these blokes be earning £1 million a year like snooker players ? |
| 6 | Seven years ago the yards were losing £45 million a year . |
| 7 | Two years ago , we were spending $4 billion a year on exploration and development to sustain our production of about 1.5 billion boe/d . |
| 8 | In County Durham , for example , British Coal is spending £6 million a year keeping its remaining coastal pits dry but now has no operational interest in the network of 11 pumping stations . |
| 9 | BRITISH Telecom is putting £3 million a week in Scotland every week , its chairman , Iain Vallance , told the London dinner of Scottish Financial Enterprise last night . |
| 10 | BRITAIN is borrowing £100 million a day to keep the nation 's finances alive . |
| 11 | G. E. I was offered money many a time . |
| 12 | And that old man I 'm telling you the God 's truth , I watched him when I was coming school many a time , used to go to Anglesey with a rope in his pocket here . |
| 13 | Cellnet is said to be spending £3 million a week improving the cellular phone network , and until recently Racal was spending £2 million a week . |
| 14 | In 1989 , industry claimed it was spending $34 billion a year to comply with pollution control legislation . |
| 15 | BP was spending £45 million a year on sulphur recovery alone . |
| 16 | The financial consequences for Caltech have been very significant : by the early 1960s it was receiving $1¼ million a year for administering JPL . |
| 17 | Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages . |
| 18 | ‘ I was paid £3 10s a week , and worked on Saturday mornings , ’ he said as he bowed out of Linlithgow Branch for the last time . |