Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He always worked very hard on the training pitch when he was at Tottenham , but he did n't always have that bit of luck a keeper sometimes needs . |
| 2 | At each level of analysis a set of tasks could be devised of different orders of complexity . |
| 3 | KALMYKIA is a semi-autonomous republic of the Russian federation with a population of 320,000 , no trees , a universal drink of tea mingled with mutton fat , and a 30-year-old Buddhist president who claims to control 50 companies with a combined turnover of $100m a year . |
| 4 | I 've just got another bit of paper a note saying please note while you are at college you are asked to do four hours overtime and that 's not a contract , it 's just a letter . |
| 5 | In this kind of organization a directive style would be seen as quite out-of-place . |
| 6 | Now when we get round to this subject this afternoon of fire a lot of people think that fire is a modern invention . |
| 7 | What an interesting study of farewells a railway station affords . |
| 8 | Was not this type of legislation a threat to freedom ? |
| 9 | In this type of survey a sample of people is recruited to a panel and their attitudes are surveyed at different times . |
| 10 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 11 | With this definition of deindustrialization a range of indicators can be used to assess whether or not the UK economy is deindustrializing . |
| 12 | Either the magistrate refuses bail and says , effectively , that the court orders that the weekly equivalent of £20,000 a year is spent on the offender until his case is heard , or the court grants bail and orders that nothing is spent on the offender until the case is heard . |
| 13 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 14 | Trying to claim that , in spite of those subsidies , average net farm income is lower than the average Scottish wage of £14,100 a year wo n't wash according to Scottish Office reckoning , because that comparison is not valid . |
| 15 | For the purposes of this form of liability a person is a ‘ keeper ’ of the animal if ‘ ( a ) he owns the animal or has it in his possession ; or ( b ) he is the head of a household of which a member under the age of 16 owns the animal or has it in his possession ; and if at any time an animal ceases to be owned by or to be in the possession of a person , any person who immediately before that time was a keeper thereof … continues to be a keeper of the animal until another person becomes a keeper thereof … ’ |
| 16 | The increase in yield and a slight fall in cake costs resulted in a further increase of £5 a cow in MOPF . |
| 17 | And therefore , if it can really come to this possibility of ministry a sort of , Young Farmers Club idea of getting themselves about that could be a a a a , a , a marvellous boost . |
| 18 | On the Government 's safety-netted forecast of £272 a head in England , the compensation amount is 75p a week short of the amount a couple are likely to pay in poll tax . |
| 19 | When a particularly difficult and obscure accident occurs , the aircraft manufacturer may suspect the possibility of the failure of a particular component , and acting in a responsible manner and with the highest possible motives may circulate to all operators of that type of aircraft a design for modifying the component just in case it was the one that failed . |
| 20 | Despite gaining a simple majority of votes a bidder may still be unable to gain control of the supervisory board with its entrenched powers and consequently be prevented from controlling the management of the company . |
| 21 | The association also calculated that , over and above income support , the same claimant would have received £360 in housing benefit , on a typical rent of £30 a week . |
| 22 | There was an additional charge of twopence a week for the secretary 's salary and office expenses . |
| 23 | At no extra charge , Fidelity offers a Stockbroking Plus option which provides frequent dealing credits when you exceed a minimum commission of £250 a month , dealing in US and European Stocks , a high interest multicurrency instant access money market account and , for an extra fee of £50 a year , a full client reporting pack . |
| 24 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 25 | To give a concrete example , there is in the early development of vertebrates a process called gastrulation , during which a hollow ball of cells , the blastula , is folded in on itself to form a ball of two cell layers , with an opening , the blastopore , at one end . |
| 26 | Motoring costs went down by 1.3 per cent , thanks to a further fall in the average cost of second-hand cars and an average drop of 7p a gallon in petrol prices which , together , more than made up for a rise in car insurance premiums . |
| 27 | Today , the average intake of 20g a day puts us among the lowest fibre-consumers in the world . |
| 28 | Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence . |
| 29 | Between 1984 and 1991 , the volume of leasing in the UK grew from £3.9bn to £12.6bn , at an average rate of 18% a year . |
| 30 | It boasts that Yucatan 's labour costs average less than $1 an hour , allowing an annual saving of $15,000 a worker . |