Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday 27th many insurgents converged on the Tauride Palace , seat of the Duma , and that evening a group of predominantly Menshevik intelligentsia established a Provisional Executive Committee ( EC ) of the soviet in the palace and summoned factories and barracks to elect deputies to it . |
| 2 | Roffman and Purdy list a number of new film genres that developed during these years but the vast majority of individual films mentioned did not move very far from what was becoming a stock depiction of the city with its gangsters , ‘ modern ’ women , and venal politicians and lawyers . |
| 3 | Yeah , a hundred and eleven pound a week |
| 4 | That 's mister average eight hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 5 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 6 | You 're gon na lose two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 7 | And a good two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 8 | So you can say two hundred and fifty pound a month to buy a place . |
| 9 | And you 're going , you 're getting two hundred and fifty pound a month as well in rent |
| 10 | I mean we 're paying two hundred and fifty pound a month so at least he 's getting that coming in . |
| 11 | And they get what , seven hundred and fifty pound a month as well ! |
| 12 | On the other side of the Square , attracting a much larger crowd , a fire-eater was doing his thing watched by amazed children as he threw his head back and spewed flame a couple of yards into the air . |
| 13 | Which means that you 're likely to have a much clearer view of things than most , unsullied by ambition and administrative politics-by a reluctance to deal with me and give me what I want . ’ |
| 14 | The Skupština ( Assembly ) was in session , and each day a deputy of peasant origin came into the square outside the building , to deliver to a large audience a blank-verse poem , giving a highly coloured account of the debates on a bill to reform the currency ! |
| 15 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 16 | Give each person a straw and each team a feather . |
| 17 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 18 | They have clean hair and some look a bit like Paul Newman . |
| 19 | The overall excellent improvement in first half performance is masked by a technical transfer last year , which of course is n't repeated this year and this year a provision of , formerly in pounds following the settlement of a civil anti-trust suit . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't know what you 're talking about , ’ said Julius , and this time a warning note of a very different kind sounded in his voice . |
| 21 | By this Maine meant that in archaic and primitive society a man 's rights and duties were rigidly determined by his position at birth in a given family or clan . |
| 22 | Me say , ‘ just like some a una white like a chalk and another couple a una got blond hair , some have black hair , me no come ask wha that ! ’ … |
| 23 | Among the press of cars he saw a taxicab painted like a page from a newspaper and another advertising a brand of beer . |
| 24 | But Watson did both Benn and British boxing a service . |
| 25 | But Watson did both Benn and British boxing a service . |
| 26 | But at least her psychosis gave students of English literature and social history a book which can claim to be the first extant long prose narrative in the English language , and the first autobiography by a psychotic personality . |
| 27 | In seeking to understand this aspect of social change and social integration a number of possibilities exist . |
| 28 | However , giving as a reason a greater degree of compatibility with the LDP 's conservative line on defence and foreign policy a Komeito spokesperson , Akira Kuroyanagi , told foreign journalists in late November 1989 that it would " make sense " for his party to start supporting the LDP on a " case by case " basis . |
| 29 | That 's a hundred and forty pound a month . |
| 30 | and forty pound a week but |