Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , there is in fact a , which a number of members have referred to , there is in fact a hundred and fifty thousand being spent this year on day care capital as a result of the two and a half million package which members agreed in October and that has obviously gone to voluntary organizations for them to spend . |
| 2 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 3 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 4 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |
| 5 | Whether the boxing and wrestling matches shown on the carved rhyton from Agia Triadha , a miniature fresco from Tylissos and certain sealings were part of the same or a different festival is not known : the way they are depicted suggests that they too had the quality of ritual struggle . |
| 6 | In every State the mass of the uneducated and a large fraction of the educated were deeply hostile to change , quite untouched by the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment and intensely suspicious of any government-inspired innovation . |
| 7 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 8 | A hierarchical court structure is essential to give to a particular case a level of authority ; this will determine whether or not the case can be overruled by a decision of the same or a higher court , and which courts , if any , are bound by its decision . |
| 9 | It was the tail-end of the Seventies when a frighteningly young Noel McKoy and some schoolmates formed the Albians and recorded the all-time classic lovers ' rock tune ‘ Princess ’ . |
| 10 | On 22 March 1665 Coxe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , in which he played an active role for the rest of the 1660s and a slightly less active one in the 1670s . |
| 11 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 12 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 13 | Anyone who 's ever caught a glimpse of Neighbours would hardly expect Joe 's real-life counterpart to be an anti-government revolutionary with a phobia of the bourgeois and a passion for the planet . |
| 14 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 15 | The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging . |
| 16 | Frame 's international standing was rewarded with a Vice-Presidency of the World Federation of the Deaf and a place on its elected Bureau . |
| 17 | The summer timetable saw very little change at the Western end of the Cambrian but a notable addition was an 07:00 Newtown to Birmingham service each weekday using stock and crews brought out a a passenger service from Salop . |
| 18 | The Thyssen museum opened in Madrid on 9th of last month to fairly general self-congratulation in the Spanish newspapers , qualified by the hope that the paintings would remain there at the end of the nine and a half years loan/rental period ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 , Oct 1992 , pp.1 , 6 ) . |
| 19 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Historians are certain to acknowledge that she dominated the political landscape of the 1980s and a number of her policies will leave a mark in post-Thatcher Britain . |
| 21 | It was a symptom or symbol of the 1980s and a lesson for the 1990s of collusion between Government and irresponsible elements who have done much to give the tobacco industry a bad name . |
| 22 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 23 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 24 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |