Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we feel that , okay , you know , it may have been a half an hour late but you got there . |
| 2 | On top of those attractions will be a five a side motaball contest , with players ‘ driving ’ small single seater vehicles to ‘ kick ’ a giant ball . |
| 3 | there , and the doors and that 'll be a good a job really . |
| 4 | However , the overall feeling is that the Jockey Club is genuinely concerned with helping the industry move forward and Haines should at least be a given a chance to show what he can do . |
| 5 | Had that proposal been acted on , McKusick , CSRG senior programmer and past president of Usenix , would have found himself in another conflict of interests since he is believed to be a secret a director of BSDI . |
| 6 | A ‘ session ’ may be a half a day or a whole day . |
| 7 | It 's a nice a perm that Elaine . |
| 8 | It 's a hundred a week they 'll have to do , per team . |
| 9 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 10 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 11 | It 's a fourth a quarter . |
| 12 | But , bearing all this in mind , I would say that now is a good a time as any to whisper the eternal words — and say them as though you mean them . |
| 13 | Eldon Lane is a half a street away from Coundon Grange : in the age of innocence , cub reporting and beer at 1/9d a pint , it was the column 's regular beat . |
| 14 | The Mass is an old-fashioned a cappella Mass — for the continuo is disposable — freely modelled on Gombert 's motet ‘ In illo tempore ’ ; the Vespers , although ‘ composto sopra canti fermi ’ , exhibit the most modern idioms of expressive declamation , showy coloratura , echo effects of forte and piano , and free use of instruments , but also double-choral passages a cappella ( opening of the ‘ Ave maris stella ’ ) . |
| 15 | In this respect , Marx was a committed a modernist as Simmel ( Marx and Engels 1967 ) . |
| 16 | Steve Chapman says that he comes from the Shennington club and Nigel was a member there … he jokes that mansell was a big an idiot as all of them … breaking in the wrong place and that sort of thing |