Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 2 | Two major changes to CA-dBFast version 2.0 are the addition of a visual applications designer , and the inclusion of CA-Ret , the report writer . |
| 3 | The addition of a user-definable Thresholds and Gauges feature — as specified in the IEEE 802.1F standard — enables network management to be customised . |
| 4 | Whilst the daisies look fine as they are , they will look quite stunning with the addition of a few butterflies and these are great fun to create . |
| 5 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 6 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 7 | What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes , Elil-Hrair-Rah , or El-ahrairah — The Prince with a Thousand Enemies — is to rabbits . |
| 8 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 9 | Smith was a leading figure in the local and national movement to promote technical education , beginning with the provision of a new Mechanics ' Institute in Keighley in 1870 — he was secretary of the building committee — and continuing , after a formative visit to France , Germany , and Switzerland in 1872 , with the setting up of an associated ‘ trade school ’ , providing technical and art classes . |
| 10 | The Italian national debt is the third largest in the world , but until recently the short maturity and floating rate nature of its debt has prevented the provision of a suitable futures contract . |
| 11 | The other important check on bureaucratic dominance is the provision of a high-level complaints procedure through ombudsmen . |
| 12 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 13 | This points to the existence of a distinctive women 's politics and culture prior to the entry of the term feminism into linguistic usage . |
| 14 | Much is heard and read in the media of essentially anecdotal evidence about the apparent interdependence of markets and the existence of a global securities market . |
| 15 | Among the most interesting exhibits are fragments in the first room taken from excavations at Malamocco and elsewhere on the lagoon which prove the existence of a local ceramics industry . |
| 16 | In general , larger firms tended to make more use of qualifications ( possibly reflecting the existence of a trained personnel staff who themselves owe their position to qualifications ) . |
| 17 | 1987 ; Reiner 1985 ; for an earlier and related argument see van Maanen 1973 , 1975 ) , and thus to the existence of a generalized police occupational culture . |
| 18 | The pull of a triple demands 80kg ( 2001b ) breaking strain line . |
| 19 | This is often extraordinarily hard to achieve , but remains at the heart of a successful schools . |
| 20 | Once Queen Victoria had been established on the throne for a few decades , she acquired a natural authority when dealing with her prime ministers . |
| 21 | The company , which is raising the money in a two-for-five rights issue at 155p a share , said attractive opportunities to increase investments were in sight with tenant demand increasing . |
| 22 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 23 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 24 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 25 | He believes standards have only slipped in the case of a few companies , but that the press tends to seize on these examples and blow them up out of all proportion . |
| 26 | In the case of a biological arms race , on the other hand , we can usually see only the end-products . |
| 27 | You 're waiting and you 're thinking Er and this is particularly the case with a large goods vehicle , you 'll be sitting waiting to go and there 's a lovely gap and you think Can I ? |
| 28 | Child reading profiles , detailing work done , books read , skills learned , spellings known and test scores , would be printed by the computer in a few seconds . |
| 29 | It will stop the Yssgaroth for a few hours … . ’ |
| 30 | " The Chairman after a few remarks called upon Mr. Borland to read his Essay on " Labour , " after which all the Members in rotation were requested to give their views on the subject . |