Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] a [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
| 2 | In residential homes a couple who want to live together and express themselves sexually have in the past received ridicule if not hostility , instead of facilitated support . |
| 3 | The other worked as a ‘ runner ’ or delivery man , for a large dealer and was paid out in heroin to the tune of 2 grams a day which he began to consume . |
| 4 | For example , the following passage dealing with a remedy against temptation contains in some manuscripts an expansion which is here taken from B.L . |
| 5 | In some places a poacher my be shot on sight , but for many the risk is worth it as a rhino horn can fetch up to $4,500 ( UD ) on the black market . |
| 6 | But the fact is no lender can ever be absolutely sure that a guarantor is not being subject to pressure from the principal debtor , and to require him to do more than properly and fairly point out to the guarantor the desirability of obtaining independent advice , and to require the documents to be executed in the presence of a solicitor , is to put upon commercial lenders a burden which would severely handicap the carrying out of what is , after all , an extremely common transaction of everyday occurrence for banks and other commercial lenders . |
| 7 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |
| 8 | Well he showed me packets thirty five and forty pounds a week which then those days was utterly fantastic money . |
| 9 | For the angler who only makes a few sorties a year it makes sense to buy hooks in smaller units like packets of ten . |
| 10 | You know the fastest speed of one is two hundred and forty miles an hour something like that . |
| 11 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 12 | Enthusiastic supporters claimed that the movement gave to ‘ the Free Churches a unity they have never had before ’ although this same observer recognized that it was ‘ the Establishment that lies at the foundation of our contention ’ . |
| 13 | And they used to take about six loads a day you see . |
| 14 | The bureau is looking for people with a spare six hours a week who would be able to cope with working in a busy office . |
| 15 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 16 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 17 | Reducing by probably 10 mls a day which is just useless . |
| 18 | All these strategems may make corporatist arrangements a façade which cloaks the successful pursuit of their own interests by state elites in key policy arenas . |
| 19 | But the makers of the Jolly Roger ales believe they can find customers for the 100 barrels a week they soon hope to produce . |
| 20 | 6.4 There is again a significant prediction about syntactic behaviour that follows from the above account ; once again , we have in these adjectives a group which will be excluded from predicative position . |
| 21 | And erm so really three times a day I had to er make tea . |
| 22 | The Bureau publishes a Newsletter three times a year which gives information on new versions of the models deposited with the Bureau , on recent Bureau Discussion Papers and on the Macroeconomic Modelling Seminar programme it arranges . |
| 23 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 24 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 25 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 26 | The common wall between these forms a membrane which is the equivalent of an eardrum . |
| 27 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 28 | These 20 hours are on top of the average 35 hours a week he spends in his regular job . |
| 29 | ‘ About half a dozen times a year we find tarballs on that coast , which can come from right across the Atlantic , or passing ships could be to blame . ’ |
| 30 | A dozen times a day she pictured the woman with prematurely white hair who was now holding Angel to her breast , and she ached with longing to change places with her . |