Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be grateful fer a lift ter the site if yer do n't mind , ’ the constable asked . |
| 2 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 3 | After a while however the truth became apparent as the team fought for each quarter-megahertz boost , he said . |
| 4 | After a while when the sickness had subsided , she opened the door and was about to creep cautiously away , when she heard her father speak some words that halted her : ‘ Who 's to blame for the club nights , I ask you ? ’ he was saying . |
| 5 | With the professors ' backing , disaffected St Petersburg students tried to set up a " free university " at the beginning of 1862 , but they gave up the attempt after a month when the government arrested a professor for lecturing in a supposedly provocative manner on the upcoming national millennium . |
| 6 | They had to look only as far as France to learn how pernicious are the effects of unlocking the archives after a period when the secret police have been keeping open house . |
| 7 | The commonest problem with central heating pumps is jamming , either after a period when the pump has not been used , or due to sludge in the system clogging the impeller . |
| 8 | The system 's circulating pump can sometimes jam , especially after a period when the pump has not been used , or sludge in the system may clog the impeller . |
| 9 | Secondly , after a period when the insertion into statutes of ouster clauses of the Anisminic type fell out of favour , their use is again on the increase . |
| 10 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 11 | The most important modification of the draft , agreed after several hours of reportedly heated debate , was the omission of a clause whereby the declaration would take immediate effect . |
| 12 | Early results of the DSR ( Dream State Reactivity ) — the so called , Night Jerk — research suggest the remarkable possibility that the inhibiting function of the DSD ( Dream Suppression Device ) , sometimes referred to as the ‘ Gateway ’ , may indeed be chemically overridden for periods as great as .073 of a second when the brain is in Dream Mode ; this state being identifiable by the usual REM ( Rapid Eye Movement ) sleep and related EEG brain rhythms . |
| 13 | Lazy bitch , she was : lying on this couch day after day feeling too bad to move ; but she could go upstairs and carry out the duties of a wife whenever the fancy took her . |
| 14 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 15 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 16 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |
| 17 | It must be something of a surprise today the announcement ? |
| 18 | The process of achievement of a state where the self is receptive to the love of God is that of a balancing act . |
| 19 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 20 | The example is of a case where the father should not , not where he can not , remain neutral . |
| 21 | ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’ |
| 22 | I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old . |
| 23 | Now this steady-state comparison is a good example of a case where the criticisms of the orthodox model are well taken . |
| 24 | By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals . |
| 25 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 26 | If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex . |
| 27 | Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came . |
| 28 | Since he can not conceive of a situation where the financial accounts would be determined by the budgetary information , he suggests that users ' needs can be developed in financial accounting terms and then , if budgetary information is required , it should be made consistent with the financial accounts . |
| 29 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 30 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |