Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun sg] a " 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 | You 're gon na lose two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 6 | And a good two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 7 | So you can say two hundred and fifty pound a month to buy a place . |
| 8 | And you 're going , you 're getting two hundred and fifty pound a month as well in rent |
| 9 | I mean we 're paying two hundred and fifty pound a month so at least he 's getting that coming in . |
| 10 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 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 | It has been used twice before to kill , and each time a single shot was fired . |
| 17 | Give each person a straw and each team a feather . |
| 18 | In her analysis of such data , Blaxter observed that ‘ middle class consultations have a higher clinical content and working class a higher administrative one . ’ |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 21 | AOPA was actively involved throughout the campaign to save West Malling and has found that in several instances residents in the neighbourhoods of airfields have been opposed to flying , but when they were made aware of the horrors of what the possible alternatives would be , they then realised what a valuable green and friendly asset a local airfield could be . |
| 22 | They have clean hair and some look a bit like Paul Newman . |
| 23 | Lads like Gregan , Sunley and Isaacs are all putting themselves in the shop window , and some day a big club will come and get them . |
| 24 | • Our Christmas gift guide with latest and greatest fishkeeping equipment — and this year a special twist — our expert panel votes for their Christmas gift of the year . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Scottish Agricultural Museum , by Edinburgh Airport , opens on 1 May and this year a new set has been put on display to show a Border herdsman 's house . |
| 27 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Conversely , warm weather , convivial surroundings and sexual activity a short time before measurement will all temporarily increase the resting size of the organ . |