Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [coord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Page 3 girl had him banned from their £750,000 mansion after a fiery row and the couple announced they were to split . |
| 2 | The snow was on the turn after a mild spell and the chalet in Moléson , which must look picturesque under a blanket of neige , looking decidedly Pontins decked in half-grass and half-ice . |
| 3 | In 1795 , after a severe winter and the failure of many crops , the price of provisions soared to an unprecedented height ; the price of wheat in London was 108 shillings a quarter : and this meant that it was impossible to buy bread , even if it were obtainable . |
| 4 | Clearing up the debris after a teenage party and the damage caused by fire or flood is no problem to this new breed of cleaner . |
| 5 | If there is no luck after a few days or the child is showing antagonism to the potty then the parent should leave the training for a few more weeks . |
| 6 | After a few pleasantries and the shaking of many hands , I accompanied the column for a short distance along the road . |
| 7 | The door opened after a brief tap and the wench with the cardboard box came in . |
| 8 | But a justice ministry spokesman said yesterday : ‘ The state prosecutor found no evidence to suggest the loan was of a fraudulent nature and the ministry decided there were no grounds to extend the ( judge 's ) mandate . ’ |
| 9 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |
| 10 | Never perfect , it at least maintains the presence of Bosnia in its existing borders , and denies the Serbs their aim of a Greater Serbia and the Croats theirs of a Greater Croatia . |
| 11 | Despite the limitations of a retrospective study and the heterogeneity of the tissue available for review , the present findings show that over 80% of antral tumours were associated with H pylori in the 1960s although this fell to about 40% in the 1980s . |
| 12 | And then Dominic had appeared , with the face of a dark angel and the blarney of his Irish heritage . |
| 13 | Paris-based Concept SA , one of Credit Lyonnais 's software and services companies , has reported a reduced net loss on lower revenues in 1992 , the opening of a Swiss subsidiary and the availability of Tresorerie Manager , a European cash management application . |
| 14 | The council may make the appointment full or part time and it may be held by an officer of a regional council but the appointee must be an advocate or a solicitor . |
| 15 | As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove . |
| 16 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 17 | Progeny of a stand-up vet and the founder of LA 's fabled Comedy Store ( ‘ I was born and raised around Kinison , Arsenio , Dice and Roseanne ’ ) , the onus was on him to locate a means of slaying the crowd on his own terms . |
| 18 | Initially , Wolverton Station children had to attend Stony Stratford School , which according to Stowell-Brown , was of a low standard and the masters even worse ( but Brown was not very complimentary about anyone or anything ) . |
| 19 | The guides will help potential investors to compare costs and charges , accessibility of profits , the chances of a higher return and the relative tax advantages of the various schemes on offer . |
| 20 | The boss congratulates us about the handling of a recent matter and the interview ends . |
| 21 | The other is between ‘ authoritarians ’ and ‘ democrats ’ , the classic struggle between the advocates of a strong state and the believers in popular sovereignty . |
| 22 | At the end of the fifth month the length has grown to around 250 millimetres about half the length of a full-term baby but the weight is still only about a tenth of what it will be at birth . |
| 23 | It is unfortunate that the considerate father who aims to prevent his daughter becoming the victim of a faithless fortune-hunter or the testator eager that his possessions should not fall into the hands of his widow 's second husband rather than his own children should find that the trust he sets up may well bear double liability to tax , both when the funds are settled in trust and when they are paid out . |
| 24 | There was nothing he could do but wait , the little hut had been the scene of a violent death and the medical and technical people must have their turn first . |
| 25 | So it seems likely that just as a youngster does not need to learn to be afraid or to feel secure , they also respond instinctively from birth to the underlying mood of the call — like the predatory roar of a lion , the angry bellow of an enraged bull , the contented moo of a grazing cow or the eminently social bleatings of sheep , keeping the flock together . |
| 26 | The final 80 metres at the west end , however , passes between the fence of a private house and the fence of a proposed small housing development . |
| 27 | In the private key procedure , the transferee 's rights are predicated upon both , issuance of a private key and the transferee 's acceptance of the right to control . |
| 28 | These properties suggest that there is a resemblance between the area of the event horizon of a black hole and the concept of entropy in thermodynamics . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , with the evolution of planaria-like organisms appeared both the rudimentary forms of a nervous system and the basic behavioural building blocks out of which fully developed memory processes are eventually fashioned . |
| 30 | This chapter crystallises the main issues relevant in the management of a surveying practice and the internal organisation necessary to manage a project successfully . |