Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 2 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
| 3 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 4 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
| 5 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 6 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
| 7 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 8 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
| 9 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 10 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
| 11 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 12 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 13 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 14 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 15 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
| 16 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 17 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
| 18 | Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours . |
| 19 | Finally , glue a ribbon around the edge of the drum and brush the dragon with a little lustre powder if desired to give the scales a shiny effect . |
| 20 | From far inside the woods a thin music , a voice singing . |
| 21 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 22 | There were still to be found on the roads a vagrant population of Celtic wanderers from Scotland or Ireland , and those who followed the travelling occupations like chapmen , pedlars and itinerant entertainers , as well as the true travelling people , the gypsies and tinkers . |
| 23 | ‘ The situation in which a surety is required to give a guarantee or charge property to secure the liability of a debtor to a creditor is on the authorities a fruitful area for the exercise of undue influence , particularly by the debtor over the surety to obtain the guarantee or charge the debtor needs to satisfy the creditor . |
| 24 | ‘ We think we can give the vegetables a clean bill of health , sir . ’ |
| 25 | Even after giving all the titles a thorough scrutiny she still had no idea what he was really like . |
| 26 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 27 | However , formal induction procedures and the allocation of a job to perform can structure the signals a great deal more rigidly . |
| 28 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 29 | After a close-up of the animals a split screen enables buyers to see still see the animals and relevant details including the current bid in the upper half and auction room with brokers delivering telephoned bids in the lower . |
| 30 | North said he would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland or a ride on the space shuttle ; George Cave , the interpreter , offered to send the Second Channel to Miami Beach . |