Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 2 | There has been in the last decade a considerable strengthening of links with philosophy , sociology , cognitive science , discourse analysis , literary criticism . |
| 3 | They suggest that this may be through the perceived control an individual has over his goals , as compared to that when goals are externally assigned . |
| 4 | For example , if the entire coding for the strength of the response depended on Kandel 's single synapse , there should be in the intact animal a direct correlation between the frequency or amount of firing of that specific motor neuron and the strength of the withdrawal reflex . |
| 5 | We can expect with certainty that there will be in the near future an unprecedented worldwide demand for the development of IT systems such as those listed below : Robots , manufacturing cells , driverless tractors , computer-based controllers , computers , computer terminals . |
| 6 | Marjory , his daughter by his first wife , was persuaded to agree that if the king died without a son the crown should pass to his brother Edward ; but to be on the safe side a marriage was arranged between Marjory and Walter , the hereditary High Steward , who in spite of his youth had distinguished himself at Bannockburn and become one of Bruce 's most trusted lieutenants . |
| 7 | but you 've got to find the place there it could be at the other end a mile away could n't it ? |
| 8 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 9 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 10 | It 's about the one thing a year he does do and crows about . |
| 11 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 12 | For so imaginative and radical a technological construction , there is in the available record an astonishing lack of enthusiasm , continuing interest and even basic technical information . |
| 13 | The first is that there is in the developed world a new culture of environmental awareness . |
| 14 | Whatever one 's view of the literary merits of the Manual ( and humour is in the final analysis a matter of personal taste ) , it is certainly wrong of Mr. Browning to imply that the book is inept , contains irritating mistakes and exhibits poor production values : this is simply not the case . |
| 15 | There is in the feminine psyche a primitive , wild quality , that needs to draw from the power of nature , using the senses of night , when the clear thought and vision of day sleep . |
| 16 | Only on the assumption that public ownership , defined as ownership by the State or by the local authority is in the particular case an overriding need , does the requirement of accountability to the community arise . |
| 17 | The reporting of the crime is on the one hand an excuse for sexual titillation and on the other a misleading warning to women as to the circumstances in which they will be raped and how to avoid it . |
| 18 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 19 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 20 | Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer . |
| 21 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 22 | It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members . |
| 23 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 24 | The Kingdom is at the same time a heavenly as well as an earthly reality . |
| 25 | Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave . |
| 26 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 27 | The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS . |
| 28 | It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism . |
| 29 | Secondly , there was throughout the nineteenth century a gradual assumption by the state of many of the responsibilities formerly held by the Church , particularly in regard to marriage — Lord Hardwicke 's Marriage Act in 1753 , the 1836 Act which introduced civil marriage , the reorganisation of divorce and separation procedures in 1856 and 1878 , with further Acts in 1884 , 1886 , 1895 . |
| 30 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |