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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In this way change is seen as a developing social process the repercussions of which can not be completely forecast . |
| 21 | As a small clandestine organization the Britons Publishing Society was to become the main ideological source of an underworld whose principal themes were later to influence the racial nationalist tradition from the IFL through to the National Front . |
| 22 | Even the Belgrade daily Borba commented that " it is not a merry event to proclaim as a great democratic act the voting for a single political concept " . |
| 23 | For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance . |
| 24 | To someone like myself with a traditional physics-orientated education the first volume is a revelation . |
| 25 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 26 | On the other hand , in insects with a well-developed anal lobe the anal veins may be freely branched , probably through subdivision of 2A . |
| 27 | Startled , she turned and recognised with a swift sinking sensation the tall figure of Richard Blake . |
| 28 | ( Compared with a slim modern Wainwright the 2 volumes are quite heavy ) . |
| 29 | With a high structural rigidity the TopLab is ideal for supporting heavy equipment . |
| 30 | With a last desperate heave the steel door slammed shut , slicing off the row of fingers like falling skittles . |