Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that indirect taxes are , in welfare terms , preferable to direct taxes , as they leave the taxpayer free to make a choice . |
| 2 | Health service staff and managers are still developing the new skills and the framework necessary to offer a quality community care service . |
| 3 | The function first saves a set of measures by calling the procedure assignFunc . |
| 4 | REPLAY : for the replay of trails established earlier , the user first provides a string trail string for identifying the required trail held in the table path . |
| 5 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 6 | Erm , the er , there seems to be kind of latency period when great , innovations in human thought are followed by considerable turbulence and upset , and the figure responsible becomes a kind of er , you know bogey person , that , that , that , that people get , get perhaps that 's certainly true of Darwin , though I think it 's abating now . |
| 7 | For this care I award forty thousand pounds per year and take as a multiplier the figure three to give a sum of one hundred and twenty thousand for the first period . |
| 8 | Susie Novis of Castlegate , Scarborough , had the photos in a box in the car ready to make a presentation for her parents ' golden wedding anniversary today . |
| 9 | The Princess Royal attends a lunch at the Enmore Hotel , Kirn , Dunoon , Argyllshire ; as President , Riding for the Disabled Association , attends a Show given by the Dunoon and Cowal branch of the Association at Dunoon ; attends a sheep show at the European Sheep and Wool Centre , Lochgoilhead , Argyllshire ; and opens the Drimsynie Holiday Village . |
| 10 | Each hospital admission is followed up by writing to the consultant concerned to obtain a copy of the discharge summary . |
| 11 | Under the Act those executing a warrant are required ( not empowered ) to intercept all communications sent to or from one or more addresses specified in the warrant where the address in question is likely to be used for the transmission of communications to or from one particular person specified or described in the warrant . |
| 12 | There are a great many different swings , but a child must be aware of the skill necessary to make a swing work , that is , transference of his own body weight , as he goes forwards , backwards , up , down and sideways . |
| 13 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're going to play a physical , passing game and we must keep the score low to stand a chance , so we need to slow the game down , not allow the opposition any space and keep possession . |
| 15 | In 1255 the warden was commanded to pay the smith 25 marks a year out of the revenues of his bailiwick for 25,000 quarrels , which he was to keep safely for the king 's use . |
| 16 | It is many years since the town last saw a train , but the group believes that for about £1m. the railway could once again link Guisborough with the rest of the country via the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 17 | One of the best features of modern gas cooking is convenience , so the ‘ Heatflo ’ oven of the Leisure 220 offers a choice of five shelf positions giving you the flexibility of cooking several different dishes simultaneously . |
| 18 | ( b ) ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION " The period 1880–1914 witnessed a revolution in English education ! |
| 19 | " The period 1870–1914 witnessed a revolution in English education " . |
| 20 | Prices have not been agreed as yet though US prices of $2,000 to $2,800 for the EO 440 and $3,000 to $3,300 for the EO 880 provide a hint on pricing . |
| 21 | The young constable and the landlord each grabbed a combatant and frogmarched them into the village street . |
| 22 | If ( 15 ) and ( 17 ) provide only weak and uncertain support for the " emphasis " solution , the cases in ( 18 ) count as very strong evidence against it ; in ( 18 ) no amount of determination to treat the adjectives as emphatic permits them to become postnominal : ( 18 ) a child intelligent could do that in five minutes the juggler skilful wanted a pay raise cranes squeaky were soon unloading the cargo Some further explanation is therefore clearly needed . |
| 23 | 306 , the Court of Appeal had held that a trade association which by its constitution had power to put the name of a person infringing its rules on a stop list , could instead lawfully ask the person concerned to make a money payment by way of compromise . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident . |
| 25 | At the extreme this engenders a sense of relative deprivation which it is now fashionable to take as the measure of poverty . |
| 26 | However , if the authority concerned has a code of practice dealing with consultation and fails to carry it out , the Local Government Ombudsman may find the authority guilty of ‘ maladministration ’ . |
| 27 | The matron , the house surgeon and the pupil each had a bedroom and a sitting room . |
| 28 | The newly awakened consciousness of planners and architects to quality in design , the virtue of the natural products and their compatibility with the environment all signal a return to more traditional designs . ’ |
| 29 | The corporation first suggested a deal with the Musicians Union in January 1974 . |
| 30 | The pHTestr 1 may be push-button calibrated with pH 4.0 , 7.0 or 10.0 buffer whilst the pHTestr 2 has a user selectable one , two or three push-button calibration . |