Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Senate included for the first time a black woman and a native American ( Ben Campbell in Colorado ) . |
| 2 | Why will not the Minister introduce nutritional guidelines for school meals to ensure that the school meals service plays a vital role in child nutrition , as recommended in the Black report a decade ago ? |
| 3 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 4 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 5 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
| 6 | Seen through the passing traffic a bearded man in an army cap and mirror shades emerged — the bulging muscles of his torso scantily covered by a black vest — jacket thrown casually over the shoulder — he paused and then walked slowly off the screen . |
| 7 | We have undergone in the last year a major refurbishment of all our guest and public rooms and now offer the comforts so necessary for a mini-break . |
| 8 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 9 | No past rival of Western democracies , not even Hitler 's Germany , has presented to the outside world a more opaque image of policy-making than has the USSR , and in no sphere does this arouse greater confusion and concern than defence policy . |
| 10 | The shift toward formal politics was qualitatively novel , and presented to the working class a potentially valuable opportunity of engaging in new forms of hegemonic struggle to remodel society . |
| 11 | If pin 9 is left open circuit , the display will be in dot mode , and if pin 9 is connected to the positive rail a bar mode display is produced . |
| 12 | Residence at the Tuileries imposed on the Imperial family a pattern of life in which rare moments of private relaxation alternated with the exhausting obligations of public ceremonial . |
| 13 | The same dump , however , harboured 21 illegal tonnes of 7 per cent arsenic waste , a situation which had been revealed by the local paper a year previously , and then allowed to sit by local authorities . |
| 14 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 15 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 16 | On March 23 the US government agreed with the Panamanian government a US$500 million package for the reconstruction of small businesses destroyed during the invasion . |
| 17 | However , Trotsky also recognized that to effect the massive social change needed in the Soviet Union a professional , trained and expert apparatus was needed . |
| 18 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 19 | The entrance to the School from Buxton Road had to be closed until the 19th while an unexploded bomb in Corbar Road was dealt with . |
| 20 | No aggression had occurred since the previous session a week earlier . |
| 21 | A development study on the Cardwell Bay site commissioned by the local authority a year ago concluded : ‘ While the outlook from the bay at Gourock is a significant asset on a national scale , there is also an air of neglect in the area . ’ |
| 22 | Net profits slumped by 41% to $12.3m compared with the same period a year ago . |
| 23 | Third-quarter net profits at News Corp more than doubled to A$191m ( $140m ) , compared with the same period a year ago ; net profit for the nine months to the end of March increased to A$144m . |
| 24 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 25 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 26 | Lying immediately below the Caste , the LAWNMARKET — the ‘ land market ’ where country produce was sold — had become by the eighteenth century an aristocratic quarter . |
| 27 | Then , around 1700 BC , the Minoans developed from the hieroglyphic script a new syllabic form , today called Linear A. When the Mycenaeans invaded Crete they adapted Linear A to produce a revised form , Linear B. Both scripts have been preserved on clay tablets , most of which are inventories ; however , only a few hundred examples of Linear A exist , whereas there are some thousands of surviving tablets bearing Linear B. |
| 28 | This carefully documented book makes known for the first time a major work executed by Bakst at the end of his life : his seven scenes from the ‘ The Sleeping Beauty ’ , a tale which fascinated him throughout his career . |
| 29 | Indeed , the Home Secretary , Mr Leon Brittan , took great pride in the fact that , unlike any of its predecessors , the Conservative Government had provided for the first time a clear and comprehensive statutory framework for the interception of communications . |
| 30 | More importantly still , it had provided for the first time an ‘ effective ’ means of redress for those wishing to complain that interception has been improperly authorized . |