Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us remember the old days when the NI was gloriously unpredictable — one month a short story taking up the whole magazine , the next a cartoon issue and then a bit later a fold-out world map . |
| 2 | I believe if you took a referendum today a majority would agree that television should be stopped forthwith . |
| 3 | It does erm yes , it does , in fact my husband was out there erm in Tel Aviv on a course about a year ago erm and I you know I 'm beginning to think I 'm goodness I 'm glad it was last year and not this year . |
| 4 | You could give a computer quite a headache with an NP-complete puzzle . ’ |
| 5 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 6 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 7 | you know , and er you just did n't er you just did n't have er er y you may get a cinema once a week , or perhaps a dance once a week , but that er that wa that was the limit , you know . |
| 8 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 9 | So say for instance there the doctors recommended er a newsagent well a newsagent |
| 10 | But there is that again a confusion So a target that perhaps election by thirds reduces public interest , possibly reduces turn out . |
| 11 | He has a snow scooter , and enough cash to hire a boat twice a year to move his reindeer on to an island . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , such a concentration only a fortnight before the examination — which is too often the accepted state of affairs — is quite useless as a means of understanding and learning the skills of the subject . |
| 13 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 14 | There develops as a result both a vaginitis and a vulvitis which make intercourse , if not impossible , extremely uncomfortable . |
| 15 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 16 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 17 | Gentlemen in that parish Conveen & Appoint such of their Number as they see proper in rexive Districts to make a search twice a week throwout sd . |
| 18 | Gentlemen in that parish Conveen & Appoint such of their Number as they see proper in rexive Districts to make a search twice a week throwout sd . |
| 19 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
| 20 | Erm , the employment services has agreed to fund that entirely , so it 's not erm the company 's not having to make any contribution towards it , and very probably there will be a second course a week or two later . |
| 21 | A chicken no a king prawn korma I had and it was lovely . |
| 22 | Then it rose through clinging cloud , curving gracefully outward like an upturned trumpet until it was truncated by a plateau fully a quarter of a mile across . |
| 23 | you know , and er you just did n't er you just did n't have er er y you may get a cinema once a week , or perhaps a dance once a week , but that er that wa that was the limit , you know . |
| 24 | Five years ago 440,000 young people went to a pub once a day ; the number is down by 150,000 . |
| 25 | It came to a halt just a couple of yards away , and her stomach gave an uncomfortable lurch as the door opened and Eleanor got out . |
| 26 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 27 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 28 | I 'd quite like a boy then a girl . |
| 29 | As Donna Cassidy who looks after all our recordings in Dublin says once a hit always a hit you know . |
| 30 | White 's Irish impressions are to be found in The Godstone and the Blackymor ( 1959 ) , illustrated by Edward Ardizzone , and The Elephant and the Kangaroo ( 1948 ) , a fantasy about a second flood , with White as Noah . |