Example sentences of "[noun] a word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's £1 a word , ’ said the clerk . |
| 2 | It 's about a pound a word . |
| 3 | about a pound a word . |
| 4 | Is Sot a word ? |
| 5 | To find a given subject you can just double click on the appropriate word in the word list , or type a word into a search box to bring up a number of related articles . |
| 6 | At this point a word of warning should be included : it is little use spending days/weeks describing and analysing one thin section if you are not sure whether this section is representative of the sedimentary sequence you are evaluating . |
| 7 | What as as I said to you twenty percent of the messages a word sounds the same . |
| 8 | As the Roman hold on Britain slackened , Picts joined with other Gaelic-speaking incomers from Ireland known as Scotti a word meaning simply pirates . |
| 9 | An arithmetical calculation is performed on a particular item ( in this case a word ) , thereby computing a function ( known as the hashing function ) which gives the location of the item ( and any associated data ) in a table — the hash table . |
| 10 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 11 | Is Z O G a word ? |
| 12 | The full version of this dictionary lists all the meanings a word has had , with quotations to illustrate them . |
| 13 | Furthermore , traditional grammar sees in the finite verb a word which predicates something about its subject : The grammatical function of a finite verb is to serve as a predicate word , that is , in an ordinary affirmative sentence to state something about the subject of the sentence … |
| 14 | ‘ Devil a word , ’ replied her mother . |
| 15 | The computer prints a word , e.g. caterpillar , with a picture of a long green caterpillar beside it . |
| 16 | Someone once said to me , ‘ You are surely not founding an élitist system ? ’ — that , s a word that seems very unfashionable these days . |
| 17 | such as f er for example a word processor clerk or may not saying , may not necessarily need so much training as |
| 18 | Overt unknowns are completely absent from the lexicon , for example a word such as Maastricht , despite the frequency of recent use , exists in few lexicons . |
| 19 | She is concerned less with syntactic definitions than with the role a word plays in the metaphoric process . |
| 20 | The fee for permission — not writing , or speaking , or doing anything mildly useful — was £10,000 , £2,000 a word , a rate for the job that , I can now reveal , not even the NSS matches . |
| 21 | This is particularly true in the matter of monuments , chantry chapels , hatchments , memorial boards , ledger stones , floor tiles and misericords , but on the subject of stained glass a word of warning is necessary . |
| 22 | The amount of information a word conveys is therefore a function of possible alternatives which would be meaningful to us in that position . |
| 23 | Before embarking on a rather brief description of the theoretical interpretations of the glass transition a word of caution should be given . |
| 24 | The star a word you know Courtenay would hate being called to his face makes no bones about the fact that he wants The Miser to be successful because that will put money back into his favourite theatre , Manchester 's Royal Exchange , where the production originated . |
| 25 | Thinking about the way a word is put together can sometimes help you to remember how to spell it . |
| 26 | This is an example of the abstract view of phonology where the way a word is represented phonemically may be significantly different from the actual sequence of sounds heard , so that the phonetic and the phonemic levels are quite widely separated . |
| 27 | We have here a critical discourse operating on another critical discourse-in a word , metacriticism . |
| 28 | We may have to sound a warning note of challenge as well as minister a word of comfort . |
| 29 | Is G I D a word ? |
| 30 | Is G , er G O D a word ? |