Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have always spoken and used European languages a lot and my wife Annie is the same . |
| 2 | Students are selected to take part in the four regional finals which involve preparing the menu in cook-offs , and from each regional final a student team is selected for the grand final . |
| 3 | I should n't bother I should just carry on chucking a bit on here and there same as everybody does , I ca n't see many buggers go for that bloody eight pound a bag . |
| 4 | In normal character-printing mode a program sends instructions to the printer to print a character string in a form such as PRINT ‘ ( message ) ’ and the printer hardware selects the appropriate dot patterns for each of the characters in the character string ‘ ( message ) ’ . |
| 5 | I says yo you go out to your flipping eleven pound a week |
| 6 | And we do provide you with sales literature to say well actually strange to say but it has gone up recently it is only fifty eight pounds a week . |
| 7 | Erm but you 're talking fifty eight pound a day |
| 8 | Fifty eight pound a day . |
| 9 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 10 | But you 're amazingly lucky to have that fifty pounds a year ! |
| 11 | a hundred and fifty odd meals a day |
| 12 | The usual fifty pence a strip ? |
| 13 | It 's marvellous that it should be that way and and good that it should be that way too because you know the air waves seem to be full of very noisy songs at the moment that that jar a lot of people . |
| 14 | He has a share in a four-seat Piper based at Teesside Airport and , as he prepares to retire on March 31 , he is looking forward to putting in more than his usual 70 hours a year flying time . |
| 15 | Regional French dishes a speciality . |
| 16 | ‘ Religious objections , if you can call that superstitious rubbish a religion . |
| 17 | Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question about which I gave notice to his office earlier this morning ? |
| 18 | Might it not also be possible to find the right hon. Gentleman a researcher who can at least draft a simple apology ? |
| 19 | About eight or 10 chief constables are not asking for an increase in police forces for next year — — and I shall be glad to send the right hon. Gentleman a list . |
| 20 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 21 | The University has been allocated from the European Social Fund a number of training grants tenable on the following full-time postgraduate courses : |
| 22 | It was a wonderful combination of talents : Langan created the legendary ambience , Caine supplied the celebrity customers and Shepherd won critical acclaim for his unpretentious menu featuring black pudding with apples and bangers and mash — as well as his ability to sell up to 700 outstanding meals a day . |
| 23 | ‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year . |
| 24 | It is expected that a lexicographer should be able to process some 75 entries a day doing trivial editing tasks and between 10 and 12 entries a day resolving complex editorial tasks . |
| 25 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 26 | In this broad extent a number of influences are apparent from the domed churches of Périgord with their Byzantine inspiration to the richly coloured buildings in volcanic materials in the Auvergne . |
| 27 | Some 65,000 cars a day are illegally parked and anyone unlucky enough to get caught in future could lose their driving licence for a time . |
| 28 | In saying that , at the end of the month if we do pay this amount of money , I only earn five hundred pounds a month , that 's four hundred and forty eight pounds a month . |
| 29 | Three hundred and forty eight pound a month mortgage on that little house . |
| 30 | The system is required to cope with a turnaround of some 500 entries a day . |