Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 2 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |
| 3 | But it would be difficult to find from the surviving evidence a single case history of this kind . |
| 4 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 5 | Sonia Delaunay later expressed this theory in its simplest form : ‘ Pure colours used as planes are juxtaposed in simultaneous contrasts to create for the first time a sense of form , achieved not by clair-obscur , but through the relationship in depth of the colours themselves . ’ |
| 6 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 7 | It is not too fanciful to see a connection here with a point Ingram has made about the acquisition of linguistic transformations by children ( to dwell within the Chomskian paradigm a little longer ) . |
| 8 | It was impossible to detect in the dried slough a darker hair which might have come from Lorrimer 's head , or with the naked eye to distinguish his blood . |
| 9 | The Transatlantic strategists ’ , it was claimed , ‘ do not conceal the fact that from a military point of view their aim is to create in the Persian Gulf a third centre — in addition to Western Europe and the Far East of military might outside the USA and covered by an atomic umbrella . ’ |
| 10 | It held that it was open to any aggrieved party to challenge before the European Court a decision by the Commission ordering production of documents which a party considers are privileged , and the Court has power to grant interim measures to prevent disclosure of those documents to the Commission until the dispute on privilege is resolved . |
| 11 | THE Royal Society for the Protection of Birds was yesterday given leave to challenge in the High Court a development scheme which it fears will damage the environment . |
| 12 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 13 | If a " Rule 72 " transfer of unregistered land is used , the Registry only requires the original document to be lodged ( except when fresh restrictive covenants are imposed ) without a copy ; but it 's still the preferred method ( and recommended by the Law Society ) to lodge with the original transfer a certified copy , when the copy will be returned with the new land certificate . |
| 14 | Every word from his father , every lesson from his tutor , Pobedonostsev , every symbol he saw , every ceremony he performed was designed to inculcate in the young Tsar a sense of his God-given duty to uphold his supreme office . |
| 15 | Consideration should be given to include in the Direct Journal a supplement possibly entitled Health and Safety Direct to the Membership . |
| 16 | Max Black 's influential ‘ interaction ’ theory builds on Richards 's ideas and depicts metaphor as a complex operation in which one semantic field ‘ organizes ’ another , acting as a ‘ screen ’ or a ‘ network of lines ’ ( 1962:41 ) which ‘ filters and transforms ’ ( 42 ) in order to project onto the proper term an entire ‘ system of ‘ associated commonplaces ’ ' ( 41 ) . |
| 17 | But the most ambitious financial venture is a project to build on the Catalan coast a holiday resort called Cosmo Dali , complete with a yacht harbour and leisure park . |
| 18 | Mr Stapleton added that he thought ‘ the ASB might be trying to run to the perfect OFR a little too quickly ’ . |
| 19 | Thus , unlike social class , social network does not require us to project at the initial stage a fully-fledged theory of social structure on to the linguistic data . |
| 20 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 21 | I say real progress has been made but today I am asking you to think about the next step a step that I am sure we all feel is at the heart of the matter a transforming step perhaps the critical step that will guarantee ultimate success in fulfilling god 's loving will for his church . |
| 22 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 23 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 24 | The experiences of other people who are in a similar situation are used to convey to the new group a sense of purpose and to reduce the feelings of helplessness and isolation which are often encountered . |
| 25 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |