Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hearty cooked breakfast the next morning , Meryl hurried to the hall to find a good seat where she would get the best out of the professor 's lecture . |
| 2 | Should these general measures fail after a minimum three-month period the drug of first choice is probably a cardioselective β-blocking agent such as atenolol or metoprolol or alternatively a calcium antagonist such as nifedepine . |
| 3 | Duke John and the Earl of Cambridge laid siege to Quimperlê , probably on 23 June , and after a heavy English assault the garrison agreed that if they were not relieved within a week they would surrender . |
| 4 | During the week ashore you meet your companions and after a few discreet words the lead crew sorts you out . |
| 5 | Its report was sent to my supervisors in February 1988 , and after a few minor changes the college 's final approval was received in May . |
| 6 | And that was a bit of a nice little deadline the pressure was on . |
| 7 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 8 | Toward the centre of a rich globular cluster the stars are separated not by light-years , but only by light-weeks or even light-days . |
| 9 | Instead of a new social awareness the masses were given in particular fiction , humour , and music which were apolitical and essentially sentimental in tone . |
| 10 | At a launch of a new diagnostic technique the Chief Executive of a hi-tech company in the medical field seeks your advice on two public relations programmes : I Aimed at his own company 's staff : 230 of them at two factories 65 miles apart and at an R and D facility with 38 senior staff . |
| 11 | The research sets out to study the introduction of a new domestic technology the microwave oven , tracing its life-trajectory through a string of case studies . |
| 12 | In the absence of a vigorous middle class the intelligentsia lacked any effective levers through which to bring about change . |
| 13 | In the case of a sparse random-access file the value returned is the length of the file to the last byte actually written to the file . |
| 14 | It was a calculated guess but sooner or later he expected to hit lucky , and here on the fringe of a large private estate the chances were better than anywhere . |
| 15 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 16 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 17 | In the course of a few hundred words the following occur : catalles = chattels , Chrystean = Christian , peax = peace , freyle = freely , delyved = delivered , auctorytye = authority , mad = made , borow = borough , rome = room , jarretier = garter , and playnle = plainly . |
| 18 | However , after the Commissioner had been in office for a mere three months the Government introduced a Green Paper which proposed to extend her powers significantly , and under the Employment Act 1990 , section 10 , she was given power to assist members in enforcement of their common law contractual rights against the union . |
| 19 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |
| 20 | Japan and the United States agreed on June 4 , after some years of often acrimonious debate , to extend for a further five years the deal reached in 1986 on the easing of access to the Japanese market for US manufacturers of chips for use in computer assembly . |
| 21 | On Aug. 12 the UN Security Council decided to renew for a further 120 days the sanctions which had been imposed against Libya in April [ see p. 38883 ] . |
| 22 | Following a Security Council meeting of Dec. 9 , the UN extended for a further 120 days the application of limited sanctions against Libya , in force since April [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 23 | Parliament voted on Jan. 17 to renew for a further six months the state of emergency first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] and regularly renewed since then . |
| 24 | On March 18 the Lithuanian Supreme Council ( parliament ) extended for a further six months the direct rule imposed in September 1991 on the Vilnius and Salcininkai local regions [ see p. 38419 ] , and also voted to postpone fixing a date for elections to the local councils there . |
| 25 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 26 | Bangladesh and India were to extend for a further three years the trade agreement due to expire in October 1992 , All-India Radio reported on Aug. 6 following talks in New Delhi . |
| 27 | In any case , for as long as they remain as powerful as they are and until the country is ready for a proper comprehensive system the grammar school should be preserved : ‘ It would , moreover , be absurd from a socialist point of view to close down the grammar school , while leaving the public schools still holding their present commanding position . |
| 28 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 29 | For a few agonizing minutes the camera holds on her face as she experiences — she hardly seems to be enjoying — sexual attentions out of the range of the camera . |
| 30 | She leaned back against him , revelling in the strength and warmth of his body , allowing herself for a few luxurious moments the unaccustomed joy of feeling secure in his embrace . |