Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places I put the colour on in a wash , either by crayoning onto the design and then adding water , or by taking the paint off the crayon direct with a brush . |
| 2 | The authorities in the northern Russian town of Arkhangelsk have made the money available for a facsimile edition of one of the most ancient Russian manuscripts , the Arkhangelsk Gospels , which date back to the year 1092 . |
| 3 | The values of — and — may be expressed as integrals of the field due to a point force in the comparison material and in certain cases these may be evaluated . |
| 4 | All At Sea reverts to a mile for the first time this season , having finished runner-up on her last three starts , the best of which was her length defeat by Rodrigo de Triano in the Juddmonte International over a mile and a quarter . |
| 5 | A description of the building concerned in a witness statement would be sufficient proof of this point . |
| 6 | The point is that Brook and his co-adaptors ( Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne ) have made the story available to a mass-audience . |
| 7 | It 's the story all about a man who had two very nice daughters . |
| 8 | The term imaginary as a noun is current in French theoretical work , but not in English ( except via Lacan , who gives the Imaginary , with a capital I , a major role in his theory ) . |
| 9 | It is the conflict between the players in any drama which heightens or when necessary relaxes the tension necessary for a climax to the plot . |
| 10 | Draftsmen have sometimes attempted to link the rent payable under a lease to movements in an official index , such as the Index of Retail Prices ( as happened in Blumenthal v Gallery Five Ltd ( 1971 220 EG 33 ) . |
| 11 | I hope we will borrow very modestly , it 'll be affordable , we 're not reckless , we 'll be doing what the majority of people in this country do , borrow within their limits for the things that they need for the future such as a home , or a car , something like that . |
| 12 | Peter Atkinson from Bath City Council said ‘ It is hoped that there will be additional improvements in the future such as a sculpture and interpretative trail . ’ |
| 13 | In the future much of a computer 's Supervisor may be in microcode : see for example the microprogrammed operating system functions on the experimental VENUS System ( Liskov 1972 ) . |
| 14 | Under the archway one of a pair of glass doors led to a room , estimated ( wrongly ? ) by MRCVS as being about 10 feet long and six feet wide ; this was the combined consulting room for the Professor and the College library . |
| 15 | A power surge blew the fuse on the White House autocue and the President dried-up for a moment and then ad-libbed . |
| 16 | POLICEMAN Brian Yinger has been suspended and ordered to take psychiatric tests because he writes the figure seven with a line through the downstroke . |
| 17 | The class is then excused and the entries return to the ring one at a time in numerical order to be judged individually . |
| 18 | Why is the car all of a sudden making that noise ? |
| 19 | The shooting dead of a US marine and the wounding of another at a Panamanian roadblock on Saturday forced the US to take the situation more seriously . |
| 20 | But his features were carved from stronger stuff , the mouth wider beneath a nose that was broken though still straight . |
| 21 | In the cold light of day Celtic 's win will have been seen to do nothing other than reduce the gap between them and Rangers in the Premier Division from 12 to ten points , which is hardly the signal for predicting immediate transformation within the club bereft of a trophy since 1989 . |
| 22 | He scooped up a stone and leaping the steps to the terrace three at a time , he hurled it through the door and dived after it , hitting the living-room floor flat and rolling twice . |
| 23 | This phenomenon precipitates an interesting question : is the effect repeatable by a computer ? |
| 24 | Accordingly I consider that Glidewell and Butler-Sloss L.JJ. were right to conclude that money paid to the revenue pursuant to a demand which was ultra vires can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 25 | A gale of easy laughter closes the Q&A and we leave the magazine 's offices together , the critic due at a screening uptown ; I offer to help hail a cab but Kael prefers the services of the doorman at the neighbouring Algonquin Hotel . |
| 26 | A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee . |
| 27 | There was a pair of dark maroon button boots in the window next to a lace fan and a parasol . |
| 28 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 29 | I do occasionally move through the range two at a time e.g. 4,6,8 but as often as not that is because I 've economised in not buying all the potencies ! |
| 30 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |