Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1941 the Lend Lease scheme made this ideal a reality for America 's allies . |
| 2 | This concerned an application for planning permission to use premises in Eton High Street as a fish and chip restaurant . |
| 3 | Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning . |
| 4 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 5 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 6 | Initial impressions are of a heavy tool ( 5.2kg ) , thanks to the motor size , with a very solid , compact feel , although the Skil is actually not that large a machine for its capacity . |
| 7 | But it was , it was cheaper to by the artex like that cos it 's only three pound a bag look , three fifty a bag for a bag of it . |
| 8 | Right because we 've picked that three sixty a penny for each degree makes it easy then no problem none of this messing about with fractions and all the cancelling and ooh dear , which is where all the hard part is that 's where all the hard work is this doing the fractions . |
| 9 | I do n't have that great an affection for this place but at least it 's a world I know . ’ |
| 10 | And they allowances , I think , up to another ten or eleven thousand a year for accommodation in London . |
| 11 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 12 | An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ? |
| 13 | The princess could receive income from the Duchy of Cornwall which make about Pounds 3 million a year for Prince Charles , who voluntarily surrenders 25 per cent in tax . |
| 14 | But but when initially presented to you , here 's twenty thousand a year for doing nothing my friend . |
| 15 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll pay you two fifty an hour for as many hours as you can put in these holidays . |