Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
2 | Although many people possess the psychotic traits we have been discussing , only a few will show the signs of even a borderline disorder and still fewer will develop a full-blown psychotic illness . |
3 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
4 | We arrived after dark in a major city driving on roads that were tarmacked in places with workers going home from work milling all over the roads with not a street light to be seen ! |
5 | This posed the dissidents with quite a problem . |
6 | It is a massive concerto in four movements rather than the usual three — the addition of a scherzo emphasises that the work has the characteristics of both a concerto and a symphony . |
7 | They remained on the cars for about a year , working regularly on route 16/18 . |
8 | I 'd hunch down under the covers with just an air-hole to breath through , and shelter there . |
9 | writes from : THE funerals of both a soldier blown up in Ulster and a young mother murdered on Wimbledon Common were marked by the same poem : |
10 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |
11 | When I heard the stories about quite a tyrant |
12 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
13 | A supervisor can tap such first-hand knowledge without wasting time studying Ordnance Survey maps or other records , while the competent field man is in a position to handle a problem immediately in an emergency without having to research the questions of where a pollution may have come from , where it will go , or what damage it might do . |
14 | With the development of end-user computing even the questions of how a manifestation of the data was made and why become different kinds of questions . |
15 | He screamed ‘ She 's my property ’ as terrified David Berry dodged the blows with just a towel protecting his ‘ prime cuts ’ , a court heard yesterday . |
16 | An additional and severe problem is that the volumes of data which are already collected are huge by the standards of only a decade ago . |
17 | There is a new requirement that people organising demonstrations and processions in the streets should tell the police at least a week in advance , which is a good thing . |
18 | Nicandra knocked and tapped against the bars for quite a minute before Silly-Willie 's white face , like an oversized moon , filled the small window . |
19 | They were seen as the agents of either an alien , infidel force ( the British ) or a dissolute secular power ( the Khedive ) . |
20 | He was an active figure in the Lords until only a week ago . |
21 | ‘ That means you 're going to be off the streets for quite a while . ’ |
22 | It was a considerable achievement for a society to pour so much milk , so much orange juice , so many vitamins down the throats of its children , for the height and weight of those children to outstrip so fast the measurements of only a decade before . |
23 | Most of the facts about how an investment group could be allowed to draw in tens of millions of pounds of people 's savings for years after regulators had first spotted that things were amiss at Barlow Clowes were revealed in a report by Sir Godfray Le Quesne commissioned last year by the then Trade Secretary , Lord Young . |