Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Feature material on cooking with a variety of the products in women 's magazines and in regional media . |
| 2 | They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play . |
| 3 | At this year 's May time celebrations all of the children performed country dances and a special feature was dancing around a Maypole by the children in Miss King 's class . |
| 4 | This is because the change in the stock in the current quarter ( ) consists of revaluations ( which are a function of the change in asset prices over the quarter ) and new purchases which are a function of expected gains from the time of purchase rather than simply from the end of the current quarter . |
| 5 | They propose that a bonus be paid which is based upon an approximation to the change in social welfare.4 Specifically , the " incentive component " of the managerial emolument package that they propose for period t is given by a function of the increase in profits and the decrease in price between period t-1 and period t : Such an area is represented in figure 4.5 by the shaded portion , as can be seen by noting that the first term represents the rectangle ABCD and the second , the area under the marginal cost curve unc between unc and unc ( i.e. the integral |
| 6 | Er , to what extent the rift er , filled , I do n't think it can be wholly filled as a function of the recovery in er , the market for land . |
| 7 | One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation . |
| 8 | Caesar found a census of the population in the Greek script when he took over the camp of the Helvetii ( Bell . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , in the play , Puck the fairy is supposed to say he 'll put a girdle around the earth in forty minutes — ’ |
| 10 | There 's a bit of the child in us somewhere |
| 11 | He was jumping up and down so much he gashed his shin a bit on the seat in front of him . |
| 12 | But he came more than he might have and he 'd done a bit with the bells in his heyday . |
| 13 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 14 | Most volcanic rocks contain some phenocrysts — they are a bit like the pips in raspberry jam . |
| 15 | It always seemed very cold , grey , and deserted , not a bit like the picture in The Nottingham Graduate , but better , I imagine , than the canal at Dunkirk where a colourful fellow-student named Reynolds reputedly took his morning dip . |
| 16 | A true story is told that the steeple of Hull 's Holy Trinity church , is on a level with the road in Church Street , Sutton . |
| 17 | This is a branch of the law in which precedents lose their cogency through a change in social conditions , and in which analogies are frequently remote . |
| 18 | One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own ; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name ‘ Thynn ’ as a first or second Christian name for boys , and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter . |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend be sure to ask for a branch of the kiosk in any new catering facility for visitors , and will he make sure that it has House of Commons fudge and humbugs on sale ? |
| 20 | An executive order dissolved the Internal Peace-Keeping Force , established as a branch of the military in 1978 to intervene in domestic crises . |
| 21 | However , I would guess that , if there were a referendum on the issue in Britain , there would be a clear majority for making homosexual acts between consenting adults illegal . |
| 22 | As a result of a referendum in the Saar in October 1955 , when 96 per cent of the electorate voted against Europeanisation in any shape or form and for incorporation with West Germany , France bowed to the inevitable . |
| 23 | Further advances were made following a rising of the Illyrians in 9 BC , and the final subjugation of the Illyrians in the western Balkans was achieved under Tiberius in AD 9 . |
| 24 | The military and political decline of the Roman Empire coincided with a worsening of the climate , and both contributed to a rising of the swamps in the Dark Ages . |
| 25 | While independence was being proclaimed in Hanoi on 2 September there was a rising against the French in Saigon . |
| 26 | The former area champion was travelling abroad in 1992 , but kept her hand in by riding a winner on the flat in the United States during August for Mr. Sheppard 's brother , Jonathan . |
| 27 | Having hit a winner from the spot in the crucial 3–2 victory over FA Cup finalists Sunderland in midweek , he struck again to spark his team 's rise into third place in the Second Division table . |
| 28 | That would be a decision of the officer in charge of the actual operation erm that was actually going into the flat but it was normal practice that radios would be switched off . |
| 29 | Following a decision of the House in 1986 , whenever a Select Committee makes a special report to the effect that its work has been substantially interfered with as a result of premature disclosure of its proceedings , that report automatically stands referred , as the hon. Member for Preston ( Mrs. Wise ) has said , to the Privileges Committee . |
| 30 | A decision to the contrary in the British Columbia Court of Appeal , City of Prince George v. British Columbia Television System Ltd. , 95 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 577 , held that a municipality could sue for libel , but did not consider the argument of competing interests and the balancing exercise required under article 10 , and I do not consider it to be relevant to this appeal . |