Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 2 | Perhaps today it should be turned into a couplet with the second line being ‘ Half your pension 's too much to pay ! ’ |
| 3 | The book 's chief interest lies in the fact that Caroline Capel was a sister of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey and that she and her family , for financial reasons , were living in Brussels at the time of Waterloo . |
| 4 | There is a half sister by this marriage , and a sister by the second marriage , for which Madame Lagerfeld appeared in a tiered red dress , designed by Madeleine Vionnet . |
| 5 | According to a census in the sixteenth century , Sarajevo was 100 per cent Muslim , but in Bitola ( Monastir ) in Macedonia 20.2 per cent were Christian and 4.8 per cent Jewish , and in Skopje the proportion was 23.7 per cent Christian and 1.5 per cent Jewish . |
| 6 | It will be seen that Figure 1.1 , which introduced two individuals X and Y , is a case of the third debate . |
| 7 | Dorothy Marshall describes a case in the eighteenth century which resulted in a servant being hanged : she held a candle while her lover slit the butler 's throat . |
| 8 | It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be . |
| 9 | Then , in the fixed-point binary format , the presence or absence of a bit at the ith bit position indicates the presence or absence of the ith power of two in the numeric value held . |
| 10 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 11 | Australia made a good start and we were a bit behind the eighth ball after |
| 12 | Originally there had stood a medieval castle alone , then it had been Neo-Gothicized and French Châteaued a bit in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | But peter pulled away a bit in the second round ( Thomson 71 ; Thomas 74 ) and he won by four strokes . |
| 14 | A Marine during the Second World War , Jones was cited at Iwo Jima . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 16 | MITI is now developing the workplans for a ‘ New Information Processing Technology Programme ’ as a successor to the Fifth Generation Programme . |
| 17 | Renault showed they had a winner for the first time at the 1979 French Grand Prix when Jean-Pierre Jabouille ( Fra ) was first , with team-mate Rene Arnoux third . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont , who sees the Budget as his attempt at political rehabilitation , was boastful , saying he believed last year 's Budget had contributed to the Tory victory at the election and this one would also prove a winner in the next election in 1996 ‘ or whenever the election comes ’ . |
| 19 | Shall we leave it that I will consider making a direction at the next hearing in relation to that figure and the question of any interest thereon but will defer any such er decision until you 've had time to consider it . |
| 20 | Anyway , he felt he had to make a decision on the next show for the Kings . ’ |
| 21 | so I said well it cost us just so many weeks though , I 've put it in again , I 've , I 'm sending it back today in the hope that they will come up with a decision in the next week , cos usually once they 've got the information they 'll write back say within ten days yes or no |
| 22 | ‘ Certainly we will reach a decision before the next election is called , ’ a government official said . |
| 23 | Their action let stand a decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond , Virginia , that property lost at sea can be abandoned only through the failure of insurers to appear in court or through a written statement relinquishing title . |
| 24 | He must submit a budget during the first week in February , which should further clarify his revenue needs and sources . |
| 25 | The Volkskammer approved on July 22 a budget for the second half of 1990 . |
| 26 | When a missionary report estimated how much it cost per capita to convert people to Christianity , and presented a budget for the next harvest of souls , then conversion had become a business venture . |
| 27 | County councillors look set to take on the Government tomorrow , when they set a budget for the next year way above Whitehall limits . |
| 28 | Jarbas Passarinho , the federal justice minister and an outspoken opponent of the park , must now agree a budget for the next stage of Operation Free Jungle . |
| 29 | But good budgeting means having a budget in the first place , having a surplus beyond merest subsistence with which to plan , bulk buy , meet the emergencies which crop up constantly . |
| 30 | Darren Riches , 19 , of North Shields , a driver with the 42nd Squadron the Royal Corps of Transport , was based in Wiltshire . |