Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty three patients had partially treated iron deficiency with a typical blood film and microcytosis ( mean cell volume <76 fl ) or iron , iron binding capacity or ferritin , or all four at the extremes of the normal range and a response to iron treatment . |
| 2 | The show is a mix of puppets and a human Alice when she 's the normal size and a puppet Alice when she 's shrunk by the potion . |
| 3 | The law compiles doctrines such as fraud , mistake , duress , undue influence and incapacity , which share the task of specifying the occasions when the normal presumption that a person acts voluntarily may be rebutted . |
| 4 | Other events there will be A Night Out with Goldsmith , Johnson and Burney at the Georgian Theatre and a performance by Fritz Spiegel and the Spiegelers . |
| 5 | Soon it was moving at the speed of a trotting horse between a high hedge on the right-hand side and a stone wall on the left . |
| 6 | ‘ The first term I was there I remember doing a large choral concert , an opera with the junior school and a carol service . ’ |
| 7 | the divine lotus or a man with a lotus blossom on his head . |
| 8 | The electoral campaign , which had begun on Dec. 4 , ended on Feb. 21 , and was attended by an estimated 2,500 international observers including representatives of the United Nations , the Organization of American States and the European Parliament and a United States team led by the former President , Jimmy Carter . |
| 9 | A CSCE mission was nevertheless permitted to visit Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 12 , and on Feb. 17 Hassan Hasanov , the Azerbaijani Prime Minister , arrived in Brussels to attend a session of the European Parliament and a meeting of NATO 's Political Council , where he spoke about the background to the conflict . |
| 10 | To that end it has recently amended the European Commission 's proposals for the introduction of a licence system for art exports outside the European Community and a directive concerning the regulation of the return of works of art illegally removed from one member state to another . |
| 11 | Finally , there is the strong possibility that a contagion effect will operate in this setting . |
| 12 | Yet with treaties , lack of protest is viewed as irrelevant ; the strong presumption that a State is not bound by a treaty which it has not accepted means that lack of response to a treaty communicated to it entails no acceptance . |
| 13 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 14 | The platform is extended across the low section and a 2ft tombstone added . |
| 15 | The odd chicken or a carrot cake would be much appreciated . |
| 16 | True , a haircut , a smattering of designer stubble , the odd earring and a spot of UVA can make a difference , but basically it 's the inner man who 's on display . |
| 17 | If the duty were held to be unexcludable , this would have the odd effect that a trespasser to premises not in business use could be better off than a visitor . |
| 18 | Occasionally , they kill soldiers , and blow up the odd bridge or a railway line , but essentially they are an impotent and marginal force currently engaged in peace talks with the military . |
| 19 | He then went on to consider whether the further proceedings would be against the children 's interests under four heads : ( 1 ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation ; ( 2 ) the fact that , under section 91(1) , if in respect of any child a residence order were made in favour of the foster mother , the existing care order to the local authority would be discharged ; ( 3 ) the shared parental responsibility between the foster mother and the mother which would result from section 12(2) conferring parental responsibility upon the foster mother if a residence order were to be made in her favour ; ( 4 ) the time that would be likely to elapse before any substantive order could be made . |
| 20 | The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride . |
| 21 | Maine was writing in the wake of the Chartist movement and a decade after the formation of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers , the first professional union in Britain with a membership exclusively of apprenticed craftsmen . |
| 22 | First , there is the libertarian premiss that a person 's position should not be irremediably worsened by another 's conduct . |
| 23 | This was made up of a £621,800 increase in the specific provision and a reduction of £98,000 in the general provision against residential property , and a £4,740 increase in the specific provision against unsecured loans . |
| 24 | It is advisable that the social worker should have at least a knowledge of the laws of various churches on sexual and marital affairs which enables him or her to seek advice from the right source if a client might be affected . |
| 25 | Someday , if ever I found the right producer and a label were interested , I 'd like to give that a shot . ’ |
| 26 | Implicit in it is a belief in the nobility of the suffering victim and a judgement that sees the working class as inevitably corrupted by material things . |
| 27 | ‘ Participating firms have the services of a consultant for between one and four hours , they receive a summary of his findings , a copy of the complete study and a return visit when he advises on ways of acting on the results of his findings . ’ |
| 28 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 29 | The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically . |
| 30 | Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings . |