Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 2 | In the accounts of a business the principal repayment would merely be a transfer of funds within the balance sheet from the owners to the creditors . |
| 3 | If you have your hair done once a week could you set it yourself and just visit the hairdressers for a cut every two months ? |
| 4 | In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories . |
| 5 | The forward tilt is admirable but these chairs have a disadvantage : by placing the knees on a pad the feet , with their receptors , are prevented from being placed flat on the floor . |
| 6 | As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important . |
| 7 | The Estwicks were in Hong Kong , Giles having been required to visit the head office of one of their major commercial sponsors to finalise the details of a competition the radio station was shortly due to run for them , and Cavell Fielding had also departed for the Crown Colony a few days previously , telling Maria that whether she returned depended on Luke 's instructions . |
| 8 | If you arrange your archers on the slopes of a hill the rear ranks can shoot over the heads of the ranks in front , enabling you to take advantage of large numbers . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think his parents are going to be happy when he comes home for the holidays with a scar the length of his face ? ’ |
| 10 | Open the windows for a while every day to let stale air escape . |
| 11 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 12 | They accused him of giving information to the police about a robbery a few weeks earlier at a local company . |
| 13 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 14 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 15 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |