Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By means of the defence of act of a stranger the basis of the liability is shifted to responsibility for culpable failure to control the risk . |
| 2 | Every time there was a call , although 99 times out of a 100 the call was for him , he pushed the phone in my direction . |
| 3 | At the close of a moot the judge or judges declare which counsel or side performed best ; he , she or they then go on to the next round . |
| 4 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 5 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 6 | Of a sudden the fräulein tucked her arm into his . |
| 7 | The Judicature Act decided that as against a stranger the mortgagor in possession must be treated as owner . |
| 8 | Just the fact that this can be achieved at less than £10,000 for a complete system is rather likely to upset anyone who has invested hundreds of thousands in ‘ Third Wave ’ systems and discovers that , for a tenth the cost they could actually achieve rather more . |
| 9 | The other inspirations were the revolutions of the southern hemisphere — the Portuguese colonies in Africa , Vietnam , Latin America — the peripheral appeal to some of the more deluded souls of the Chinese Cultural Revolution , and for a few the writings of the émigré Frankfurt Marxist , Herbert Marcuse . |
| 10 | And clearly , in terms of the fires as a particular the rationale for them being there is |
| 11 | The radial shields are long , about a half the disk radius in length , longer than broad , rounded proximally and separated by a wedge of plates . |
| 12 | Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP . |
| 13 | Er I just want wanted to pick up on your your opening remarks , sir , after coffee , that that the impression you had was that the the the districts , erm , could live with a that the County Council figures . |
| 14 | It 's the machine every Game Boy owner would like , but it costs a prohibitive £129.99 if bought with a Sonic The Hedgehog cart . |
| 15 | they take away from a subordinate the feeling that his superior , in issuing orders , holds power over him . |
| 16 | Richards also had the benefit of solid support at the other end as Haynes steadily made his way to 184 , the highest West Indian innings at Lord 's , and with Lloyd chipping in a fifty the total reached 518 . |
| 17 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 18 | To a stranger the smell may be more obvious . |
| 19 | In 1858 he was declared bankrupt , his departure bringing to a close the clothmaking chapter in the life of Brookhouse , as well as at Kings Mill . |
| 20 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 21 | For the serfs themselves , it brought to a close the degradation of chattel status and opened the way to the rehabilitation of their human dignity . |
| 22 | As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century . |
| 23 | For the Concordat , in theory at least , brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century . |
| 24 | This brings to a close the examination of contexts in which the to and bare infinitives can be directly opposed in use with full verbs . |
| 25 | When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found . |
| 26 | Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence . |
| 27 | There are two very strong pieces of evidence confirming that the examples of inherently restrictive predicative adjectives accompanied by articles must indeed be regarded as entity-identifying expressions : First , they can quite generally appear where entity expressions appear , including positions which are not even superficially available to an ordinary adjective : ( 24 ) the rudest came from your cousin she gave motherly advice to a second , and a stern warning to a third the oldest of the aircraft should be scrapped ( 25 ) the honest deserves the appointment Bert offered a peanut to the untidy the elegant of the vases lay on its side |
| 28 | About a third to a half the usable space in any private house is taken up by special rooms devoted to sleeping . |
| 29 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 30 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |