Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he got about 30 inquiries a day . |
| 2 | I was glad to be given for this talk a problem question — animals and the environment . |
| 3 | The best cuts of boar meat sell for five pounds a pound … twice the price of pork . |
| 4 | If he is right in this , then a subsidiary issue arises as to what constitutes for this purpose a sufficient ‘ acceptance ’ of the plea . |
| 5 | He then wired through each hole a Christmas tree light bulb connected to a battery and a bell-push button . |
| 6 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 7 | The French monarchy , like the French administrative system , occupied during this period a position intermediate between the extremes to be found in Russia and Prussia on the one hand and in Great Britain on the other . |
| 8 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 9 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 10 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 11 | had dropped by 35% , increasing unemployment and ending for many farmers a link with the land which stretched back many generations . |
| 12 | On average , Butler and his staff cook for 800 people a day and all the chefs have an input when it comes to menu suggestions . |
| 13 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 14 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 15 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 16 | Such cases could be met by adopting for civil cases a procedure similar to the Attorney-General 's reference in criminal proceedings . |
| 17 | He and five senior consultants will seek through judicial review a declaration that Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , used taxpayers ' money unlawfully in implementing white paper directives . |
| 18 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 19 | I went back to work for two days a week in December when Isha was six months old . |
| 20 | If you can not find a language helper who only wants to work for one hour a day , try hiring someone to do gardening or housework for you on a more fulltime basis and then use that person also as a language helper until you reach the stage where you can cope with a fulltime language helper . |
| 21 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 22 | Arber and Ginn ( 1991 ) estimate from these data that the average co-resident carer cares for 52 hours a week compared with 9 hours for an extra resident carer . |
| 23 | And you say like five pound a head when they they come in |
| 24 | But Brook had given the volunteer a passage from Peter Weiss ' play on Auschwitz , which recounted with great clarity a description of the dead . |
| 25 | Since each baboon interacts with many others , and since there may be a long delay between action and reciprocation , stability requires that a baboon should recognise individuals , and remember how each has behaved , or , at the very least , associate with each individual a positive or negative sign , depending on how it has behaved . |
| 26 | In a scalloped sun-trap glade carpeted with misty bluebells a black cap sang . |
| 27 | He should include in each demise a small number of spaces the availability of which the tenant can be sure . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , chapter 41 embodied in statutory form a principle which was to be resoundingly extended and proclaimed a century later by Wyclif : that church property might be recovered where the purpose of the original benefaction was neglected . |
| 29 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 30 | And and like the dry store , erm , with all , it 's got like the rice in it , the custard in it , all those sorts of things , I mean , you know , he might order that stuff once a week , rather than having it come in three days a week . |