Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Blanche 's protestations , the businessman insisted on leading the police officers back to the drawbridge by a route which took in the Great Hall . |
| 2 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |
| 3 | Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall . |
| 4 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 5 | About fifty metres from the car she discovered a passageway which sliced between the terraces . |
| 6 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 7 | Certain newspapers which jumped to the conclusion that he had engaged in sex with the woman were sued for libel , but were unable to discharge the burden of proving a case which hinged upon the word of a prostitute against the word of the plaintiff and his " fragrant " wife . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 9 | A referendum which dealt with the central arguments about Scotland 's relationship with the United Kingdom was needed , he said . |
| 10 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 11 | Yeah catching rabbits a hedge and cut down a stick you know at the corn on the old and if we were lucky we used to get erm we used to er seat the old fella on the boiler and have a ride round on one of the horses . |
| 12 | Alasdair MacCormick , who runs Law Practice Management , a consultancy which advises on the selection of computer systems , feels that knowing how computers work is not important . |
| 13 | Fundamentally an actuary is a problem-solver and this is a thread which runs from the second half of the 18th Century to the present day . |
| 14 | The test was tried first on the horse who was regarded as having the lowest intelligence : a mare who lived around the family home . |
| 15 | That 's just like my dad — he 's always on about what a struggle he had in the days of his youth and I get it all too easy . |
| 16 | A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 17 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 18 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 19 | Work was therefore concentrated on preparing full-scale calculations ‘ for the time when fast computing machines become available ’ — a sentence which recurs in the theoretical reports of this period ’ ( 1946–1948 ) . |
| 20 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 21 | The Treasury prepared a response which concentrated on the difficulty of translating economic theory into practice , and on the political implications of the economists ' suggestions . |
| 22 | Without waiting for a response he stepped into the thicket . |
| 23 | The pin is often positioned on the right-hand side , just over a ridge which runs across the front of the green . |
| 24 | The equipment consists of a portable computer linked to a sensor which travels along the pipe and examines it for defects . |
| 25 | There is a row of stout wooden rods supporting a handrail which runs along the edge of the gallery , allowing the adventurers to lean on it and look down into the Black Pit ( which they wo n't immediately be able to see , of course ) . |
| 26 | The general safety requirement is encapsulated in s10(2) which provides : ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section consumer goods fail to comply with the general safety requirement if they are nor reasonably safe having regard to all the circumstances , including ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the goods are being or would be marketed , the get-up of the goods , the use of any mark in relation to the goods and any instructions or warnings which are given or would be given with respect to the keeping , use or consumption of the goods ; ( b ) any standards of safety published by any person either for goods of a description which applies to the goods in question or for matters relating to goods of that description ; and ( c ) the existence of any means by which it would have been reasonable ( taking into account the cost , likelihood and extent of any improvement ) for the goods to have been made safer . |
| 27 | In the majority of his work , he displays a sympathy which reaches to the inner core of his subject . |
| 28 | A GHOST which appears in the north of England . |
| 29 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 30 | Each tribunal has a clerk who deals with the administration of the tribunal . |