Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxwell 's son loses a thousand a minute on roulette ! |
| 2 | Takes a dozen a year off me if I can find them for him . |
| 3 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 4 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |
| 5 | The family is a primitive institution that gives the rich an excuse to exploit the poor and prevents the poor from resisting . |
| 6 | Carnival gives the poor a chance to mingle with the rich . |
| 7 | Your whole attention must be directed to balancing the need to produce the best result which you could personally produce , and the one which gives the subordinate a chance to learn through practical experience . |
| 8 | So here we are , you know , our leader was someone who was homeless for times during his ministry and he belonged to a people who said their god was the father of the fatherless and the protector of widows , and god who gives the desolate a home to dwell in . |
| 9 | The idea of the ‘ self ’ — what gives an individual a sense of personal identity , and how others recognize this self — has been at the heart of a philosophical debate since David Hume claimed to repudiate the existence of the ‘ self ’ as a separate entity in the eighteenth century ( Hume , 1739 ) . |