Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 2 | Greece was to suffer a further blow half a century later with the rise of Lucius Cornelius Sulla , Dictator at Rome in 82–1 BC . |
| 3 | Within the aggregate supply — aggregate demand framework of this chapter such a relationship can be seen to occur because if aggregate demand increases and firms can sell their goods for a higher price , they can afford to offer workers higher nominal wages . |
| 4 | Another mile revealed a track going up to the plateau and a sign pointing straight ahead to ‘ Hamouda ’ — a village which was not on any of the maps . |
| 5 | by the depth of the top surface Carboniferous which increases towards the N.N.E. An example is given by the Arsten Z1 borehole near Bremen where the boundary Westphalian C/D lying at a depth of 6180 m reaches the boundary between the anthracite and meta-anthracite stages with a vitrinite reflectance of 3.5% Rm ( for the top surface Carboniferous a value of 2.8% Rm was extrapolated ) . |
| 6 | Yet , despite the critical debility of the national economy , it is no less difficult to deny Mr Jay 's further proposition : that though it would almost certainly serve the general interest to prohibit trade unions , in a free society such a prohibition would be unthinkable . |
| 7 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 8 | Petrocaravi , the ‘ ship of stone ’ , was a deserted islet half a mile off the western tip of Phraxos . |
| 9 | In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading . |
| 10 | Was this clownish farrago all a pretence ? |
| 11 | Yet in the British context such a move is probably still premature . |
| 12 | Then he put ten flags to the east of the depot — each flag half a kilometre from the next — and ten flags to the west . |
| 13 | On the Swindon council Thamesdown , for instance , Labour hold such a grip that they 're bound to remain in control . |
| 14 | EIGHT Yorkshire miners , trapped for 15 hours behind thousands of tons of rock , coal and twisted steel half a mile underground , are expected back at work today after what British Coal described as ‘ a stunningly successful ’ rescue operation . |
| 15 | The legspinner beat the outside edge many a time in the ongoing psychological thriller of the summer . |
| 16 | However , even though many enthusiastically endorsed the creation of a supranational authority , there was still concern about how much power such a body might have . |
| 17 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 18 | Whatever we get I say Angie 's is that , carpet 's that thick , three pound odd a roll |
| 19 | pay three pound odd a week . |
| 20 | Well when you 've finished taking them , three pound odd a packet they are . |
| 21 | Okay so let's say if you got three pound sixty a week pocket money . |
| 22 | Okay so I , what I 'd like you to do now is both write down if you had three pound sixty a week , how much would you spend on sweets , on presents , on stationery and how much would save |
| 23 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 24 | For critics of corporal punishment such a rationalization ( as doubtless they would see it ) is not good enough . |
| 25 | God knew , however , that without divine intervention and the presence of his glory in the depths of human life such a reversal was impossible . |
| 26 | Either way such a manufacturer and his distributors have to vary their marketing mix , if they are to attract the ‘ right ’ kind of customer . |
| 27 | When restrained by a human ( or a natural predator such a fox ) many chickens will enter a kind of catatonic trance known as ‘ tonic immobility ’ . |
| 28 | RON THACKER , BEM would like to thank all friends and colleagues who helped make his memorable day such a success . |
| 29 | In the long term such a state capitalism could develop towards a more fully socialised appropriation incorporating the physical planning of production , as political and economic circumstances permitted . |
| 30 | Hay , in his farewell performance , could give them a lifeline were they to beat DW Clydesdale at Meadowbank , but on current form such a prospect appears most unlikely . |