Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for setting such a ceiling on damages , individuals who have signed accounts which subsequently generate court actions would automatically have to justify themselves before a disciplinary committee of their institute . |
| 2 | Such a play on emotions could of course be depicted in different ways . |
| 3 | To impose such a test on children would be a particularly invidious way of discriminating against them , unless Harris has in mind that we should all undergo such examination . |
| 4 | I can never see why people refuse to give autographs , for example — it puts such a dampener on things . |
| 5 | On the other hand , forcing such a language on men and women not born to it can have the perverse effect of increasing the number of languages . |
| 6 | One may condemn such a reaction on grounds of hygiene , but not on any other grounds . |
| 7 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 8 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 9 | In the example of Figure 15–5 a tax on meals leads to too few meals being produced . |
| 10 | It was thought fair to avoid placing too frequent a burden on places like Belfast . |
| 11 | The French Environment Minister , Ségolène Royal , announced on Sept. 5 a ban on imports of potentially harmful industrial waste from Australia . |
| 12 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 13 | The proposed conditions include limiting the number of aerotows — launches using a powered tug aircraft — to 50 a day on Sundays and 60 a day on other days , up to a maximum of 2,000 a year . |
| 14 | For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week . |
| 15 | Today we spend some £12,000 million a year on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 16 | In spite of the law , however , it is estimated that children aged 11–16 in Britain spend up to £90 million a year on cigarettes [ 16 ] . |
| 17 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |