Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , after I had anointed a few of the more important Poles with precious substances , I built a dam system . |
| 2 | By then , however , the invaders had already occupied a third of the state — which they still hold — before the UN brokered a ceasefire . |
| 3 | In an earlier chapter we described a few of the complex relationships which exist between different species and different kingdoms of nature . |
| 4 | The most I can do is to offer a very brief and personal view of some of the recent changes in emphasis drawing from the syllabuses of ten countries and to isolate a few of the new approaches which strike me as particularly interesting and exciting . |
| 5 | And what 's really wrong with knocking a few of the rough edges off your partner ? |
| 6 | Via corpse-like appearances in glass cages the crazy parson ended up announcing a lecture-series for the 1937 summer season in a lion 's cage at Skegness . |
| 7 | SCOTTISH golf professional Dale Reid yesterday sank a hole-in-one in the final round of the Alpine Australian Ladies Masters on Australia 's Gold Coast . |
| 8 | Areas which will be in contact with the cove members should be scratched to provide a key for the Gyproc cove adhesive , then brush away any dust and loose particles . |
| 9 | But by extrapolation , I can reasonably expect to find a third of the British insect fauna . |
| 10 | Brian Barnes , the man who beat Jack Nicklaus twice in a single day , could introduce a new-look to the Senior 's Tour in Britain . |
| 11 | Rather than being sustained by a vibrant , developing , experimental tradition , the revolutions of modernism may simply have been absorbed by an engrained , infrangible , realist tradition which rarely does more than appropriate a few of the more alluring additions Joyce and others made to ‘ the international store of literary technique ’ . |
| 12 | Javer served for the match at 5–2 in the second , but was taken to seven deuces , before blasting a backhand to the Turk 's feet to snatch the rubber on her sixth match point after one hour 12 minutes . |
| 13 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 14 | This is fundamentally a defensive approach reflecting an assumption that progress will inevitably erode biological diversity and quality , and the only way to prevent complete loss is to ring-fence a few of the best ‘ sites ’ for posterity while allowing development to take its course elsewhere . |
| 15 | It has been able to obtain a third of the income that it needs from sponsorship , while a further third has been obtained from admission charges . |
| 16 | plies a diagonal over the lake |
| 17 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 18 | THE world 's airlines say that they have carried a billion of the 5.5 billion people on Earth . |
| 19 | The waiter picked up a fork and tried a few from the man 's plate . |
| 20 | 3 Place a third of the apple mixture in the bottom of a glass bowl and top with a third of the breadcrumbs . |
| 21 | Do not completely cover the tank bottom with mops , just place a few in the central region of the tank . |
| 22 | China has a fifth of the world 's population , but only seven per cent of its arable land — mainly in the densely populated eastern strip . |
| 23 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 24 | From the outside , it has a few of the GTi dressings like upgraded wheel trims , spoilers at the front and rear and so on . |
| 25 | In May this year David Trippier , Minister for the Environment and Countryside , visited a few of the many Trust projects currently under way in the Lake District . |
| 26 | When you have a positive Z score for one , you 'd expect a negative for the other . |
| 27 | One of the sappers , from a precarious perch a third of the way up the wall . |
| 28 | Feeling depressed one day he decided to explore a few of the corridors in Nightside and plant his packet of seeds to remind him of home . |
| 29 | Neil Adams added a fourth after the interval . |
| 30 | Neil Adams added a fourth after the break . |