Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further development of these lines of thought may lead to a deeper understanding of the underlying principles of health and disease and an enhanced ability to convert the latter to the former . |
| 2 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 3 | An effective analyst provides the same service to the business as the doctor provides to the patient . |
| 4 | Half an hour later , an open-backed lorry carrying the same man and a dozen of his workmates raced past , stopping quickly enough to throw them comically forward , and then reversing hurriedly to me . |
| 5 | Thus an m-derived section having the same characteristic impedance as a constant-k prototype involving series and parallel impedances Z 1 and Z 2 , that is , characteristic impedance depending on whether the sections are T or Π-type , exhibits critical frequencies determined by . |
| 6 | An Irish audience saw the All Blacks for the first time when they trained at Donnybrook on Monday , and the first impression of Mick Quinn , the former international fly-half , was : ‘ The omens are not good . |
| 7 | Under the Children Act 1975 an adopted child has the same right to succeed on the intestacy of his adoptive parent as any other child born to that parent . |
| 8 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 9 | Firing a gun behind an unsuspecting head has the same effect . |
| 10 | Saatchi and Saatchi , the world 's largest advertising agency , claim that the French business executive driving a BMW car , flying TWA , wearing Italian clothes and banking with Citibank has more in common with an American counterpart leading the same lifestyle than with a Parisian neighbour who drives a moped and works on the Metro as a cleaner . |
| 11 | Companies are classified by returns , and all companies with an equivalent return have the same business risk . |
| 12 | Church & Co has been producing shoes in Northampton since 1873 and here is an excellent opportunity to see the many processes that make up the manufacture of men 's welted shoes . |