Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I would n't splash it all out but I 'd get quite a bit cos of the twenty years . |
| 2 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 3 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 4 | Staring straight ahead at the road before him , the driver went on talking , telling me of his boyhood ambition to be a footballer and of the Mafia-like behaviour of the modern IRA . |
| 5 | It appears to me that far the most probable explanation of the decision is that it was a decision as to the true construction of the Act … |
| 6 | The search to find and restore the Polish state led Polish politicians to mistake the restoration of the state for a decision as to the social and political form the state should take . |
| 7 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 8 | There is a story that at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the award of Gauss ' doctorate , Gauss was about to light his pipe with a page from the original Disquisitiones . |
| 9 | Charles DiBona , president of the American Petroleum Institute , claimed the tax would raise US prices for petrol and jet fuel by ten to 15 cents a gallon because of the uneven way in which the higher crude cost would be passed through the refinery product stream . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is a coincidence but at the Annual General Meeting in November he was elected Captain . |
| 11 | Downstairs wastes ( from the kitchen sink , for example ) can be taken out to a gully as in the older system , except that they must discharge below the level of the grid on the top of the gully , which means using a back-inlet gully or one with a hole cut in the grid . |
| 12 | In the room which focuses on sight , visitors see , hear and feel themselves being poured out of a can of draught Guinness , into a glass , down a mouth and through the human body . |
| 13 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 14 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 15 | … The appointments may be terminated on either side by three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 16 | ‘ The appointment may be terminated by either party on giving three months ' notice in writing expiring at the end of a term or of the long vacation . |
| 17 | He is classified as having a patron/client because of the observed relationship with a large organisation which was one among a number of significant clients . |
| 18 | They needed a boost because of the Cuban crisis and this seemed to be the opportunity , so they had little choice but to enter into the quicksand of the Vietnam War . |
| 19 | Alistair Sampson , whose Brompton Road shop specialises in primitive country wares — pottery , carvings , furniture , embroideries — hit a bull's-eye because of the close parallels with American folk art . |
| 20 | Order is maintained by the inviolability of the hard core of a programme and by the positive heuristic that accompanies it . |
| 21 | Jennings [ 1990 ] Crim LR 588 ( CA ) confirmed the need for there to be a crime and for the unlawful act to be identified . |
| 22 | It might be argued that this scheme puts the claimant who at present has a choice whether or not to use Ord. 53 , at a disadvantage because under the new scheme he or she would have to seek leave and would possibly be subject to very restrictive time-limits . |
| 23 | On the Saturday he was ordained a priest and on the following morning , appropriately the feast of St Peter 's Chair , the full ceremonial began in St Peter 's , when Innocent , anointed with the holy oils by Octavian , cardinal bishop of Ostia , was consecrated a bishop . |
| 24 | If every inhabitant was now to become a citizen and without the former property qualification , empire provided a vicarious property qualification for the Master Race . |
| 25 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 26 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ she asked with swift acidity , as Melissa 's mouth sagged for a fraction of a second because of the unexpected ferocity of her reply . |
| 27 | The castle had three wings , towers , a moat and in the southern wing the Reichsführer had his own apartments and his especial pride , the enormous dining hall where selected members of the SS would meet in a kind of Court of Honour . |
| 28 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 29 | Marks suggested that after a careful time-and-distance run from the centre of Rotterdam , we would all drop a flare and at the same time fire a red Very light . |
| 30 | If a person remains in ignorance of a publication until after the three year period has expired , he or she can start proceedings within a year of learning of it but the court 's permission is necessary . |