Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally .
2 Clark 's burst saw off the Spanish zone and then a desperate English press reduced the margin to 11 points with seven minutes to go , but that was as close as England were to come .
3 As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity .
4 However , the country as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the liberal period of the late nineteenth century belonged to the German orbit and consequently a body of commercial law ( separate from general civil law ) was implanted in the form of a Commercial Code ( Statute 37 of 1875 ) following the principles of German commercial law .
5 The method 's worked twice for me , so it may be the definitive cure or just a pathetic coincidence .
6 The later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third .
7 Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours .
8 The process repeats itself in the second test-tube and then a drop is removed and used to seed the third test-tube , and so on .
9 But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy .
10 Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s .
11 He 's got big ones and small ones , yellow ones and pink ones , he 's got the revolving variety and even a custom made wedding one .
12 No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception .
13 The importance of the contest was well appreciated by the Unionist Party which sent not only the Prime Minister but also a number of other cabinet ministers to Bannside to canvass for Dr Bolton Minford .
14 Later , he spent more than one hour with the Prime Minister and afterwards a bland joint communique was issued .
15 The spark that does often make people go is when there are changes in the international organisation or indeed a change in the fortunes of the company .
16 They may have contained either small units of the regular army or perhaps a locally raised militia .
17 I went to the medical centre and there a male doctor did a very degrading examination of my body .
18 The work can then be spread out to the measurements required on the blocking board and just a few pins are needed to hold the wires into place .
19 Of much greater significance , however , is the skyline of the fells rising to the east , where above the 2000-ft contour and barely a mile apart two important rivers have their beginnings — the Eden , destined to flow north to the Solway Firth , and the Ure , bound eastwards for Wensleydale and ultimately the North Sea .
20 They tend to be alkaline , with soluble salts at the plant-soil interface and sometimes a brown mineral horizon below .
21 The tax profession has lost not only a practitioner of the highest calibre but also a very good friend .
22 I duly knitted two backs , marked the shape of the front neck and also a slight ‘ dip ’ on the back section and stitched two lines with the sewing machine using a long stitch .
23 A decision was made in favour of the former option and again a similar trend of events to that in Banstead could be detected .
24 The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement .
25 However , Miller only advised budding for less vigorous roses or where more than one variety was required on the same plant and then a compatible growth habit was essential .
26 Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) .
27 It is also the acclaimed home of the Teifi coracle and indeed a very interesting Coracle Centre and Museum can be seen in the village where appropriate demonstrations are held .
28 For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that .
29 She was the female lead and therefore a rival .
30 Meanwhile sales executive is spearheading a move into the Middle East and already a distribution agreement has been established in Saudi Arabia .
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