Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 2 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 3 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 4 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 5 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 6 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 7 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 8 | This is not to deny that cliques and ‘ school gate agitators ’ sometimes operate with the sole intention of fermenting a campaign aimed at causing damage to the reputation of an individual or the school . |
| 9 | What is less controversial is the central function of an individual or the concept called the self . |
| 10 | For the manager the critical relationship to understand is that between the potential ‘ drive ’ of an individual and the nature of needs . |
| 11 | Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’ |
| 12 | A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole . |
| 13 | For many , the whole idea of using Marxist concepts of analysis is out of the question for a Christian and the spectre of communism has been one of the most divisive aspects . |
| 14 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 15 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 16 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 17 | There could scarcely be a less promising environment for an amphibian than the desert of central Australia where sometimes several years may pass without any rain falling . |
| 18 | Imaginary or not , they can provide a focus for pilgrimage , ritual or performance art and add significance to the interaction between an individual and the landscape . |
| 19 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 20 | These parts are , at best , inefficient in a P-40 and the result is overheating so their taxi time has to be kept to an absolute minimum . ) |
| 21 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 22 | This obviously is n't to say that the same response would not have been achieved with a centesimal potency , it merely demonstrates the applicability of LM 's in an acute and the simplicity of repetition . |
| 23 | In practice , natural language indexing tends to rely upon the terms present in an abstract or the title of a document , although sometimes the full text of a document is used . |
| 24 | Sometimes the inlet pipe can be eased over a little and the overflow trimmed to suit . |
| 25 | The use of steam and high temperature means the loss of nutrients is kept to a minimum but the flavour , colour and texture of the food are maintained . |
| 26 | As the 1930s drew to a close and the shadow of war fell across Europe , a concern about ‘ the state of the nation ’ was clearly detectable . |
| 27 | OFFER a plate of mushy peas to a Parisian and the response is a curt non merci . |
| 28 | Paul had asked me to do a swap to do his early next Wednesday so yeah , put the form in and everything the form came back today saying he 's already on a late and the day that he 's supposed to be repaying me he 's already on shift |
| 29 | Because recentralization of business my be a correct and and fashionable philosophy or perhaps one that is no longer fashionable I do n't know it still needs we believe a global approach a coherent approach to tie these things together so the organization can not only get the benefit of responsiveness and flexibility at a departmental but the leverage to exploit that information on behalf of the organization as a whole . |
| 30 | He pointed to a ‘ desperate need to educate the population better ’ and said that in the first half of the Eighties the engineering workforce fell by a third and the number of graduates employed increased by half . |