Example sentences of "[art] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Giuseppe Sanguettoli of the 74 a Squadriglia being killed ; the pilots of the 23° Gruppo claimed one Hurricane shot down between them .
2 Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg .
3 Indeed , the simpler an idea , the more likely it is to need protection " .
4 The healthier a person is , the higher the dose necessary to throw that person out of balance , as shown by the appearance of symptoms and signs .
5 Oh hang on the that a second big size .
6 In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city .
7 The family is a primitive institution that gives the rich an excuse to exploit the poor and prevents the poor from resisting .
8 Again Colm went two up at the tenth but Michael got it back to one at the 12 a birdie at the 14 brought the lead back to two up .
9 Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope .
10 An unemployment insurance scheme was not seriously proposed in Britain until 1907 when suggested by Beveridge as a desirable complement to labour exchanges : it could replace poor relief and relief works , giving the unemployed a right to benefit while they sought jobs .
11 Let's ha let's offer the unemployed an alternative .
12 Franciscan legend thus presented the faithful a generation later with Francis as the allegorical saviour of the universal Church .
13 In the 1830s a corn market was held regularly by three merchants who had a room each at the Hildyard Arms , still there in the market place .
14 Early in the 1830s an alliance between progressive provincial middle-class reformers and respectable working men was seizing control of the London-based anti-spirits movement from its well-to-do leaders and converting it into a broader-based total abstinence crusade against all alcoholic drinks .
15 But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it .
16 You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that .
17 Oh the half a bee
18 a tweedley-dum a tweedley-dee , Eric the half a bee .
19 In the half an hour multiply them all out , right ?
20 And course you , other than the half an hour for a meal in the middle of the night er that was it you got no time off at all .
21 I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back .
22 I 'll deliver when you for the half an hour when you come back .
23 Anyway he says it will be decided upon cos it 's the half an hour to go at it , you watch in the end .
24 But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle .
25 Seven minutes later Simpson 's free kick hit the post , it went over the Charlton wall , hit the post with Bolder beaten , and again the chance had gone , but at last on the half an hour United took the lead ; yet another corner , again from the right side .
26 But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made .
27 A man and his wife , and five children , the eldest eight years of age and the youngest an infant .
28 Numbers did indeed fall to 166 in 1913 ; but the Board 's reactions to the 185 in the School in December 1914 , and the 192 a year later , are not recorded .
29 The Governor 's position is shrewdly summed up by one observer : ‘ A deal with Nkrumah and the CPP would give the British a breathing space , perhaps a long one . ’
30 Khrushchev lavished banquets , ballets and banter on him and took him tobogganing — then , with mysterious abruptness , withdrew his favours and gave the British a public drubbing over the Suez adventure and the Berlin question , where he was demanding the evacuation of allied troops .
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