Example sentences of "[be] [noun] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are meetings a pain or a pleasure ? |
| 2 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 3 | Enterprise Allowance payments were £40 a week in 1983 , and they 're £40 a week today . |
| 4 | The current rates are £32.55 a week for a spouse , £9.75 for the first child and £1 0.85 each for any other dependent children . |
| 5 | Fax modems are sill a bit finicky and despite these standards , a small question mark always hangs over whether your fax modem will work with a given package . |
| 6 | Milk Tray chocolates are £3.69 a pound instead of £3.99 . |
| 7 | I 'd be drinkin' a pint of mild an ’ bitter in the ‘ Elephant and Castle . |
| 8 | The speaker will be Sarah an authoress whose talks are most entertaining and amusing . |
| 9 | The new return fares to Los Angeles , San Francisco and Seattle will be £329 an £80 saving . |
| 10 | Dues are said to be $3.8m a head . |
| 11 | Stakes for the lottery itself are likely to be £1 a time , with the other games costing less at about 50 pence a time . |
| 12 | Is it not a fact that if the link with earnings had not been broken by his Government 10 years ago — indeed , nearly 12 years ago — a married pensioner would be £28 a week better off this April ? |
| 13 | Gentleman , this is to quaint you all of you cor Serning the Billing of this workhous think to starve the poore theare Stephen Wite Stratford Lews of Barfield Wile of TataSon Loyd hintlesham but let them tak care of thin Selves for farit that is hap on shall there Brains be Blown out and that as sure as death and fail not and the hous shall not be bilt a toyle for theare shall be 500 planted soon and will di all it and pull Wiles hous down . |
| 14 | For loans between £20,000 and £25,000 the average increase in repayments will be £7.80 a month and for loans less than £10,000 it will be £2.10 a month . |
| 15 | For many , the only alternative rural accommodation may be m. a caravan , seasonally almost as expensive as a holiday investment home . |
| 16 | He claimed the majority of taxpayers would be £1.50 a month worse off as any gains from the widening of the 20 per cent tax band would be lost by the freeze on general allowances . |
| 17 | The income derived therefrom ( which is accumulated ) may be £200,000 a year and at the end of the fifth year Mr X may die . |
| 18 | You 'd think that with such a bountifull crop to look foreward to , the farmers would be cock a hoop . |
| 19 | A sixteen year old beginning work in a low-paid job in 1988 would have been entitled to a pension of £128 per week on retirement in 2037 when average earnings will be £411 a week . |
| 20 | ‘ He said : ‘ If we go in and sign it , beer will be fivepence a pint , cigarettes will be tuppence for 20 and petrol will be 50p a gallon . ’ |
| 21 | So , for example , if the flat rate is £200 a year of pension and you have been a member of the scheme for 20 years , your pension will be £4,000 a year . |
| 22 | For loans between £20,000 and £25,000 the average increase in repayments will be £7.80 a month and for loans less than £10,000 it will be £2.10 a month . |
| 23 | I 'll not be more'n a stone 's throw from the door , so rid th'self of thoughts about taking off . |
| 24 | Barring disasters , thinks Mr Stanislaw , the price could soon be $15 a barrel or less , not the $40-plus that was once feared . |
| 25 | Under Mr Lamont 's Budget changes , the Mukasas will be £357 a year better off . |
| 26 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 27 | They ca n't be alwayth a learning , nor yet they ca n't be alwayth a working , they a n't made for it ’ . |
| 28 | From 16 October , margins on the December London Fox contract will be £200 a tonne , rising to £350 on 30 October , £500 on 13 November , £600 on 27 November , and the full value of the contract on 5 December . |
| 29 | Selling and Distribution expenses are estimated to be £50,400 a year and are incurred evenly over the year . |
| 30 | With HP at say 35 per cent , the instalments would be £4.49 a month still more than saving . |