Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a light answered from the moor . |
| 2 | If an object is annexed to land in order to enjoy it as a chattel ( eg a carpet nailed to the floor ) it will not become a fixture but will remain a chattel . |
| 3 | I believe that the publication of these results will cause people to focus on the reasons for the low standards in some places , except for hon. Members representing Bradford and Newham — the two lowest scoring local authorities — whose reaction is that one should not have such testing and that it is merely a problem forced on the local authority . |
| 4 | German federalism is merely a cloak thrown over the relatively strong regionalism Which persists in Germany , and it was a system adopted by Germany , with the Allies ' approval , after the war as a way of preventing a return of totalitarianism , which is why the Germans associate federalism with the opposite of centralised power . |
| 5 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 6 | Arab voices recount the morning 's events : perhaps a Palestinian killed on the West Bank , or the latest tussle between Israeli and Palestinian delegations supposedly trying to make peace . |
| 7 | Perhaps a group dedicated to the conservation of a particular kind of architecture has started in your area . |
| 8 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 9 | Only a person entitled to the quiet enjoyment of land may bring an action for private nuisance , so the occupant of the property affected by the nuisance is the person who should bring the action . |
| 10 | For both the seller and the buyer the question of who pays the costs of delivery is really only a matter related to the negotiation of the price . |
| 11 | Many authorities would say that such a reordering of the series does not accord with serial principles ; yet on the other hand one can point out that serialism is only a method established for the facilitation of composition quality . |
| 12 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 13 | As John Major stood outside No 10 Downing Street speaking to the press on 10 April , I was helping a friend put together a letter addressed to the housing department of Brighton Council . |
| 14 | The outstanding lesson to emerge from this story was that comital succession , hitherto a matter determined within the comital family , could now be affected by interests from outside , even from outside the military aristocracy as a class . |
| 15 | The embodiment of light is masculine , that of the dark is feminine , and thus a religion based on the former will tend to be served by priests , and one based on the latter by priestesses . |
| 16 | From the mid-1330s onwards scarcely a year passed without the issue of writs requesting archbishops and bishops to order prayers in every parish for the king ; additionally , whenever an army set off on campaign — whether against Scotland or to the continent — prayers and processions were ordered , and each victory ( Berwick , Sluys , Crécy , Poitiers , Najera ) and even the capture of King John in 1356 was at once announced and celebrated with parish prayers . |
| 17 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 18 | THE Ulster roar , which nearly tore the roof off at Cheltenham as Rhythm Section won the Tote Festival Bumper , will be just a whisper compared to the reception The Committee will receive if he wins next Saturday 's Aintree showpiece . |
| 19 | That 's just a label used by the Tories . ’ |
| 20 | This was not just a bishop married to the see and people of Durham , it was a love-marriage . |
| 21 | The announcement made the prospect of a split in the DLP 's conservative vote — already a possibility raised by the planned candidacy of Chung Ju Yung , the founder of the Hyundai business group and leader of the newly created Unification National Party — all the more real . |
| 22 | Anglers received a warm welcome and his lounge , overlooking the water , was packed with fishing books and there was always a table covered with the feathers and hooks of fly-tying . |
| 23 | There is still a breed known as the Milking Devon in Massachusetts which is very close to the original seventeenth-century type and a valuable reserve of the old genes . |
| 24 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 25 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 26 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |
| 27 | Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington 's home match on Saturday . |
| 28 | Once a horse drowned on the moss . |
| 29 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 30 | ( vi ) Rejection by the other House It is rare for one House to reject outright a Bill passed by the other , more common for it to pass the Bill with amendments . |