Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her heart still pounding nineteen to the dozen , she looked over towards the window , seeing for the first time a familiar , powerfully-built figure standing there . |
| 2 | In those early days in our relationship , Basil was still adjusting to the Northern scene and I , a callow young teacher , encountering for the first time a man of impeccable manners , charm and sensibility . |
| 3 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 4 | Where the local authority is to be required to adopt the roads , the developer will be given the alternative of either : ( a ) Depositing with the local authority a cash deposit covering the full estimated cost of the work . |
| 5 | On July 15 the Iranian Foreign Ministry protested about the action of some 230 United Kingdom members of parliament ( MPs ) in signing on the previous day a statement supporting the exiled National Council of Resistance , which was dominated by the Mojahedin-e Khalq . |
| 6 | With the strain of listening for the slightest sound a desperate tiredness had set in and I was having to force myself to stay awake . |
| 7 | and Q acted upon by unc and unc are essentially the same , we are meeting for the first time a concept of prime importance in algebra , namely that of isomorphism . |
| 8 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 9 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 10 | Now I was looking at the other fella a strong comparison , I was mixing him up with I |
| 11 | The theatre is one of the most influential in the history of medicine , and was built in 1594 , a century after Alessandro Benedetti 's De Anatomia was published in Venice , describing for the first time an anatomical theatre which could be dismantled . |
| 12 | Heading along the well-trodden path a tarn , Llyn y Fan fawr , lies below , while to the east the distinctive summits of the Brecon Beacons loom . |
| 13 | Pointer starts to move L or R. Follow this by turning in the same direction a maximum amount — at any one time — of 5°. 6 . |
| 14 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 15 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |
| 16 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 17 | Following the imaginative suggestion of my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford , South ( Mr. Thorne ) , in recognition of Nepal 's return to democracy we are presenting to the Nepalese Parliament a throne for its Speaker . |
| 18 | Very occasionally in going beyond the immediate subject a few minor errors have crept in , but no one else could have told the main story in so authoritative a fashion . |
| 19 | Reading Neale 's articles in the immediate context of teaching for the first time a course dangerously titled , ‘ Television Theory ’ ( is there such a thing ? ) , |
| 20 | I did n't say much at those early stewards ' meetings , but realised very quickly that many of the very excellent people present were somewhat lacking in the ordinary muscle a steward requires to carry out his job quietly and efficiently . |
| 21 | There are advantages for everyone , and most of all for the pupils , in making the transition from class teaching in the primary school to specialist teaching in the secondary school a gradual rather than a sudden one . |
| 22 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 23 | The Treasury recognized the additional expenditure implications of this planning defect by including in the White Paper a financial allowance ( normally positive ) called the relative price effect ( RPE ) . |
| 24 | This philosophy finds expression in some recent social thought and has been most notably promulgated in the area of social services , producing on the far right a philosophy of welfare in which the care of family members is increasingly seen as a private problem , to be undertaken using family resources only , and to be underpinned only in extreme circumstances by a residual network of statutory services . |
| 25 | Labour proposes to get rid of Trust status hospitals , returning them to local authority control and substituting for the internal market a series of performance agreements boosted by incentives . |
| 26 | For example , constructing with the older person a network diagram to record information about family and support networks is a simple way of involving the user , often used with other client groups but not so much with older people ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 27 | The 28-member Consell General de las Valls ( General Council of the Valleys ) , elected for a four-year term , has , since reforms introduced in 1981 , appointed an Executive Council , introducing for the first time a separation between the executive and legislative arms of government . |
| 28 | Everyone was looking forwards , talking of the twentieth century a mere six years ahead . |
| 29 | He was seen emerging from the Foreign Office a short distance behind the Queen after his ministerial colleagues had taken up their positions beside the Cenotaph . |
| 30 | Some of these new CD products are aimed squarely at consumer markets , promising for the first time a breakthrough into the same mass market in which audio CDs have been so dramatically successful . |