Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some doubt is in fact raised about interpreting Hezarfen 's statement as meaning that these three kadis were still , toward the end of the seventeenth century , receiving only 300 akce a day both by Ali 's statement that they were receiving " approximately " 500 akce ( see Appendix I , A ) and by the attributed to Kocu Bey which was presented to Sultan Ibrahim ( 1640–8 ) in 1049–50/1640 in which the author , discussing aspects of the learned hierarchy , says : " Whatever great provinces there are in the divinely-protected [ i.e. Ottoman ] dominions , such as Egypt , Aleppo , Diyarbakir , Damascus , Erzurum , Selanik ( Salonica ) , Budin ( Buda ) , Sofya ( Sofiya ) , Bursa , Edirne , Istanbul [ the kadis of ] all such as these are 500-akce Mollas ' . |
| 2 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 3 | A combination of pressure , staff shortages and the feeling that no-one is listening to them makes many more inclined to take a day off . |
| 4 | Finance Minister Michael Wilson was forced to reveal full details of his 1989 budget a day early , on April 26 , 1989 , after major elements were leaked to the Global Television Network . |
| 5 | The passage includes a section with the words : ‘ The floating pier was always packed with people , anxious to spend a day away from Liverpool 's heavily polluted air . ’ |