Example sentences of "a [adj] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of drought , floods , erosion and fire on the forest of different types — savanna-like in the north , seasonally-flooded in the centre , with a seasonal climate in the south and south-west , a dry one in the north-east and the perhumid climate with species-rich forest in the west — has not yet been fully assessed . |
| 2 | What constitutes a ‘ public meeting ’ as opposed to a private one for the purposes of these sections is not spelt out any further in the legislation . |
| 3 | Its story is a classic one in the history of breeding and of famous breeders , for it was the Longhorn which was taken in hand by the great master breeder Robert Bakewell ( 1726–95 ) of Dishley , Leicestershire , to be fashioned most skilfully into his ideal commercial animal of the period . |
| 4 | The earthquake was unusually violent and somewhat unexpected , because we had already had a strong one at the start of March . |
| 5 | Despite the notable successes during Mr Dunn 's years in charge , the period has also been a turbulent one with the recession and defence cuts forcing the company to announce hundreds of redundancies . |
| 6 | Writing in the FRC 's second annual review , Sir Ron warns that ‘ the next year will be a controversial one for the ASB and one in which the Board will need strong support ’ . |
| 7 | The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared . |
| 8 | His design for these chairs was a favourite one with the architect and was inspired by a well-known seated portrait of the Emperor . |
| 9 | Yes there 's a half one in the bag and there was a little bit left . |
| 10 | If two or more higher-level indexes exist , each of them may be handled using a different one of the techniques described below aimed at reducing index search time , depending on their size . |
| 11 | Tam Dalyell is misleading readers by illustrating generic substitution of drugs with the substitution of one car by a different one on the basis that they do the same job ( Forum , 17 March , p 749 ) . |
| 12 | A maximum velocity at the equator reduces to a theoretical nil at the poles . |
| 13 | A BT spokesman said : ‘ People will soon realise that there is no such thing as a free anything in the world , least of all telephone calls . ’ |
| 14 | For years the Government I served was a popular one with the people — but not with the British Government . |
| 15 | Benjamin Titford — the name had always been a popular one with the Carpenter family — was born on 15 December 1786 , and was baptised along with his ill-fated sister Lydia and brother Charles Thynne at St John 's on 27 May 1792 , Whit Sunday . |
| 16 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 17 | It was unfortunate that Graham Watson regarded the matter as a commercial one in the sense that he negotiated a fee of £500 for the publication rights . |
| 18 | Likewise , among cars bought next summer , a K-registered one on the road in August will have the eventual edge over a barely older J. |
| 19 | It was given a second one after the interval . |
| 20 | I got a Liberal one through the post . |
| 21 | Needless to say , the taxation liability is ultimately a personal one for the partner — assessed on him according to the profit-sharing formula . |
| 22 | This pattern of support was a dangerous one for the club . |
| 23 | It is not a serious one for the discipline , nor even in human terms does it compare with the undesirable side-effects of technological innovations in practical life and scientific research . |
| 24 | My master , who had found a similar one on the port side , first tried his cloak but then cursed as it went into the lake and he had to stop the hole with the heel of his boot . |
| 25 | And it 's not just a problem for the bank 's branches , it 's a similar one for the credit card companies at Southend . |
| 26 | But the real watershed for banks came in 1987 when the Nationwide Anglia building society launched an interest-bearing current account called FlexAccount , which was soon followed by a similar one from the Abbey National . |
| 27 | From the foregoing , it is clear that the concept of progress , of the growth of science , is a conception that is a central one in the falsificationist account of science . |
| 28 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 29 | Here it is envisaged that in most instances the conflict will be a simple one between the librarian 's obligations to his profession and public interest on the one hand , and the librarian 's obligations to his employer on the other hand . |
| 30 | Two examples will be offered , the first a simple one concerning the flight of bats , the second a more ambitious one concerning the progress of physics . |