Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 2 | You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood . |
| 3 | Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving . |
| 4 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 5 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 6 | You 're getting the thousand five hundred , lift the five hundred leave the thousand there for a car like . |
| 7 | The corner house on the other side of the street ( 31/585 ) , the Pachta Palace , was rebuilt in the 1730s probably to a design by K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 8 | British Rail investigators said the car , carrying the five home from a party at a local public house , ignored flashing red warning lights and zig-zagged round the automatic half-barrier at Moorends shortly before midnight on Saturday . |
| 9 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 10 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 11 | The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ . |
| 12 | Rosie gave him an affectionate kiss , and Shelley decided that she needed to go for a walk around the hospital , to leave the two together for a while . |
| 13 | Many a time I have walked in the neighbouring church grounds aurally locating the sound of the distant well [ Ashwell ] , shifting my focus to the sound of the wind blowing through the tops of an adjacent circle of Scots Pine , then merging the two together in a synthesis of natural sound to create a powerful aurally based sense of place . |