Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] and [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 later Range Rover , although slightly higher geared than the old model and quite a lot heavier , should do more than 50 mph in third . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But this means extra weight to punch the tackle out the required distance and also a greater effort , which inevitably leads to inaccuracy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later , he spent more than one hour with the Prime Minister and afterwards a bland joint communique was issued . |
| 13 | I went to the medical centre and there a male doctor did a very degrading examination of my body . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They tend to be alkaline , with soluble salts at the plant-soil interface and sometimes a brown mineral horizon below . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A decision was made in favour of the former option and again a similar trend of events to that in Banstead could be detected . |
| 19 | The radical right mainly drifted back towards the Conservative party and only a small minority associated with the emerging fascist movement . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was the female lead and therefore a rival . |
| 24 | Meanwhile sales executive is spearheading a move into the Middle East and already a distribution agreement has been established in Saudi Arabia . |
| 25 | Almost 250 course proposals from 58 centres were successfully validated : these were traditional courses being transferred to the new system and also a number of innovative courses in areas ranging from Countryside Recreation and Countryside Management to Modern Musicianship . |
| 26 | the whole lot and then a four down there it would have been four but four Os only one S. |
| 27 | He needs an impressive victory , for manager Mickey Duff is already planning bigger things , such as a European title fight in the near future and possibly a world challenge by the end of 1992 . |
| 28 | Old Ing is the apex of the circular walk and here a decision must be taken , either to return at once to Horton in Ribblesdale by way of the motor road , in which case the farm access road descending south-west to High Birkwith should be followed , turning aside to see Birkwith Cave on the left ; or preferably , if the legs are willing , a recommended three-mile detour north will yield further surprises and delights . |