Example sentences of "[art] [det] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought .
2 Green realized he was better with the pencil than writing but made his excuse ‘ were his information for the satisfaction of an individual only , he would prefer the former as a vehicle for information , but to give to the public a numerous series of explanations all cloathed in bodily forms ; besides time and other minor considerations , it is necessary to consult the copper smith , the printer , and the paper merchant . ’
3 Nevertheless , as has been said previously , the principles by which claims are handled are the same whether a Writ is served or not , and it is , therefore , of paramount importance that the insurer should not feel that he must defer to the advice of his solicitor once proceedings are raised .
4 any name which is the same as a name appearing in the index of names kept by the Registrar of Companies ( s. 714 ) ;
5 My main job as I see it is that I 'm the exactly the same as a vicar in a civilian parish .
6 It 's bad enough having to take out a loan to get married , I sometimes wonder if I need to do the same as a bridesmaid !
7 The prices are the same as a holiday in Amsterdam .
8 One minute he is boasting that " our girls set Greek , Hebrew , Algebra , indeed anything you like , they are all well-trained girls " ; the next he is saying , " their rate per line is not the same as a man 's ; their corrections are heavier and that kind of thing , they make more mistakes " .
9 It was a slow process , needing the kind of patience he did not have , but at least Huy was spared the tedium of the cutters , whose sole job was to trim the reeds to a regular length , about the same as a man 's forearm .
10 Because they 've always said it 's exactly the same as a day worker and yes you have either the shift off before the night shift off before you go on the course or the one after .
11 The arrangements of tins of soup , women 's hats and men 's shoes seemed exactly the same as a year ago .
12 In which case I would see that the sensible thing to do , which is what we have done , is to assume that the current vacancy rate stays the same as a percentage and that with a larger dwelling stock , results in some additional vacant dwellings .
13 Third , I do not accept the principle that the meaning of utterances is the same as a person 's ( alleged ) reasons for saying what he says .
14 If we play about with this expectations model right this is the erm , this describes the expectation of prices in T it can also use the same as a decision rule alright to find out what prices would expectation of prices were , right in in P T minus one , okay T minus one , right here .
15 Information is just the same as a state of consciousness , be it ordinary , everyday perception , heightened perception using drugs or , as in your case , using sexuality .
16 The Germans pretended that an east mark was worth the same as a west mark .
17 The front badge , much loved by car thieves , costs £70 and even a simple radiator cap , basically the same as a Fiat 's , cost £18 .
18 For example , a rise in temperature of 10°C is the same as a rise in temperature of 10 K.
19 It is clear that architecture is not altogether the same as a film or a song : for instance , both the latter make use of performers — more crucially , stars .
20 A child 's need to understand its situation is not going to destroy the new relationship : trying to live out the fantasy that this is exactly the same as a birth relationship may well do .
21 Because everybody was treated equally at the start of their Legion service , Mike , who had learnt his killing in the bush war in Rhodesia , was treated the same as a South Vietnamese man who had never put on a uniform in his life .
22 Three so she 'd say , Oh you know mind I 've cut it up a bit do you you should n't it 's still a quarter still a quarter you have n't lost a bit of it but it 's still a quarter three twelfths is the same as a quarter .
23 And three twelfths is the same as a quarter is n't it .
24 Okay have you done things like erm three twelfths is the same as a quarter ? have you done that at school ?
25 So twenty five per cent is the same as a quarter
26 The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) .
27 I mean that 's the same as a colour photograph .
28 Therefore , why should n't a rational person be able to head a company , just the same as a figures man , who is also a rational person ? ’
29 A cluster is not the same as a concept , but if a learner can discover natural clusters then this is progress towards finding a concept .
30 Again think of the example of erm erm a social club you know , relationships between members , although they may be close and intimate and friendly and all that , are not the same as a relationship between members of a family .
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