Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN World Food Programme , approached by the Sudanese a week earlier , had reportedly already delivered 19,000 tonnes . |
| 2 | The result was a desolation of the environment and the spirit ; identikit Gulag estates , ravaged and abandoned inner cities , stifling individuality , deadening the imagination and provoking in the young an instinctive if unarticulated rage against their surroundings . |
| 3 | But he sat there three hours on the motorway waiting for the bloody A A man to find him and , apparently he did n't find it , could n't find him sa cos he rang back he said , look there 's no one come yet ! |
| 4 | Erm , you could have got to the close a little bit earlier , but then it , I think you were just finding your words , that was good , well done . |
| 5 | We left the Daro river next day and arrived at the Awash a fortnight later . |
| 6 | The Louvre has agreed to extend to the Metropolitan a long-term loan of two glazed-brick murals depicting archers , from a sixth-century Achaemenid palace at Susa . |
| 7 | Nothing of the old building remained and the long extension to the bar , dignified by the name Banqueting Hall , provided for the undiscriminating a venue for weddings and local functions and on other nights served a predictable menu of prawns or soup , steak or chicken , and fruit salad with ice-cream . |
| 8 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 9 | A large collection of modern texts set to traditional chants is to be found in the recent An English Kyriale . |
| 10 | Both were compatible with the republican-radical ideals which made up the official ideology of the Third Republic and which in 1880 meant in the main a deep distrust of Russia , the oppressor of the Poles . |
| 11 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 12 | Some unconfirmed reports listed among the dead a Kurdish Workers ' Party ( KWP or PKK ) leader , Dr Baran , described as responsible for planning guerrilla operations from Syrian-supported training camps in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon . |
| 13 | True religion may be said to add to the spiritual a conscious relationship to the Source of the spiritual . |
| 14 | I think the association had in the early a very close working relationship with Radio Brighton and we certainly keep contact with Radio Medway , Radio Brighton and all the other television and radio companies which are active within the region . |
| 15 | The white will always tend to show through the black a little and vice versa , so let it . |
| 16 | It would be possible to attempt such theoretical development by conceptual analysis , in order to produce in the abstract a theoretical structure , which could then be tested empirically . |
| 17 | Because Kate also knows that if this had happened she would have returned from the Common an hour or so later to find the carrots unchopped , the potatoes unpeeled and the lamb burned . |