Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their Lordship 's judgment , the Guinness Articles permitted only the Board and not a committee of the Board to make the award of a fee to Mr Ward . |
| 2 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 3 | Rendering a service connotes some positive action on the part of the renderer and not a state of passivity . |
| 4 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 6 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 7 | It 's a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world , this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability . |
| 8 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 9 | And she did ; but the Inglese had disappeared through the window and down a drainpipe . |
| 10 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 11 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
| 12 | It is one of the components of the work and not a referent of it ( literature has no referents ) . |
| 13 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 14 | There was a large barn behind the gallery and originally a door at each end , one leading to the house . |
| 15 | And Jonathan was justice of the peace and quite a leader in ar area . |
| 16 | Now , because of the seasonal variation , it can provide a lot of your hot water in the summer , but not very much in the winter and over a year , with a rooftop solar panel installation , you could perhaps expect to heat half your hot water by solar energy . |
| 17 | Corbett followed him across the yard as the English envoy made his way carefully through the throng and up a flight of steep stairs into the main keep of the castle . |
| 18 | Although there were no Viet Cong in the village and not a shot was fired at them , they set about slaughtering the Vietnamese civilians with a primitive and sexual savagery that is hard to believe . |
| 19 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 20 | It was a remarkable achievement by any standards , but it proved that Waites was well and truly back on the scene and still a competitor to be feared . |
| 21 | There are more formal lectures by the invited keynote speakers , but also summaries of the workshops and buzz groups held , reports on individual research undertaken , snapshot views of the conference and even a flavour of some of the social functions in more jovial mood . |
| 22 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 23 | It was revealed on Aug. 5 that the special prosecutor in the Iran-contra affair , Lawrence E. Walsh , had informed Ronald Reagan that his office considered the former President " simply as a witness " in the investigation and not a candidate for indictment . |
| 24 | But the trick of firing the forest and thus a mechanism for massive clearing , is associated with seasonal forest , where man must have first made his mark . |
| 25 | ‘ Down the other side of the hill and roughly a couple of miles on . ’ |
| 26 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
| 27 | The handbook will include an introduction to the broad economic and administrative history of the period and then a summary of the contents of specific classes of records , in particular those of the Cabinet Office , HM Treasury and the Board of Trade . |
| 28 | Cross over the stile on the left and follow the path down , over the stream and down a slope . |
| 29 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 30 | She sat , still staring at the newspaper and slowly a look of understanding came across her face as if the final piece of the jigsaw had just been put into place . |