Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 2 | Rosten now stood between the two , his feet spread , his right arm outstretched , the sword in his right hand , its tip almost touching the cobbled ground a body 's length away . |
| 3 | The proven fact of German and Italian intervention made the Spanish Republic a symbol of resistance to fascism . |
| 4 | King Charles , not to be outdone , then made the abandoned wife a duchess , the title to die with her . |
| 5 | When the Secretary of State made the equivalent announcement a year ago , I congratulated him on his promotion to the Cabinet . |
| 6 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 7 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 8 | Bring the old girl a chair will you , lads ? ’ |
| 9 | Using the SWIFT system a message will be sent to the US bank by the UK bank . |
| 10 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 11 | Have not the Government given the French-backed consortium a licence to print money ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 13 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
| 14 | There was one great and essential difference , however , between Haussmann and Wren ; the Great Fire of 1666 had given the English architect a head-start when it came to demolition of existing buildings . |
| 15 | And in this place the people have given the precious rain a name . |
| 16 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 17 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 18 | No matter , it was a wild weekend , and some time soon I 'll return to the scene of the crime and see if I can make the princely pond a home fit for a frog . |
| 19 | Mr. Kenealy then asked the medical officer a number of specific questions about Miss Price 's work . |
| 20 | To support the recessed lid a length of beading was affixed with glue and tacks around the upper inner side , one or 1½ inches from the top , dependent on the thickness of the lid . |
| 21 | The president is both head of state and head of government and in that capacity serves to some extent as a symbol of the nation , a focus for loyalty and Americans have a curious capacity for er im imputing to whoever wins the presidential election a set of er outstanding qualities . |
| 22 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
| 23 | And , at the end of such a period , if American troops were still abroad it would be unthinkable for Congress to sabotage their position by denying the chief executive a declaration of war . |
| 24 | Explaining the new arrangement a spokesman said : ‘ It 's the council 's experience that economic development and planning go hand-in-hand . |
| 25 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
| 26 | It cost the poor milkman a fortune to get them to pay him up for the milk people said they did n't get , you know ! |
| 27 | The White Wizard ( one of Bash 's predecessors ) originally entered the text-adventure world of Fantasia way back in 1985 and found the well-presented environment a mite too dull for his liking . |
| 28 | Some people found the sing-song voice a barrier , and found the beginning and the middle easier to listen to than the end . |
| 29 | To work the new service a fleet of thirty-one Class 91 140mph locomotives and matching set of Mk 4 stock have been ordered . |
| 30 | This allows the affected Character a second WP test , this time with a +10 bonus . |