Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that you do not get a link-wire in the wrong place so that it short circuits a secondary winding . |
| 2 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 3 | I knew I was courting disaster without a rope and partner on , so rushed around below the ice cliffs of the snout to see if I could force a route over the smooth slabs and close to the col . |
| 4 | Charles has actually planned a route across the Martian south pole using photographs taken by the Viking and Mariner probes . |
| 5 | The latter does not offer a route to the former , and should be strenuously opposed as a mere manipulatory gambit on the part of ‘ capital ’ . |
| 6 | A programme that may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course could be developed by adding further Stage 1 Biological Sciences modules ( see page 10 ) to this core . |
| 7 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Chemistry ; |
| 8 | The following groups of modules may provide a route to the Revised Higher Grade course in Physics : |
| 9 | Bridging precariously above the protruding spike concentrates your mind wonderfully on the old cliche — ‘ not a route for the married man ’ ! |
| 10 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 11 | Therefore the effect of Rule 4.90 in reducing Mr Sawar 's liability to BCCI from £600,000 to £300,000 corresponded to a payment of the same amount by Mr Sawar to BCCI , thus reducing the total indebtedness of Fashions , Wholesale and Mr Sawar to £300,000 . |
| 12 | To claim income support or a payment from the social fund contact your local social security office . |
| 13 | To claim Income Support or a payment from the Social Fund contact your local Social Security office . |
| 14 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 15 | In Kent a prince of the native line emerged in Oswine , a descendant , so it would seem , of Eormenred , brother of King Eorcenberht . |
| 16 | I have this day killed rather an extraordinary Bird , and one that you will recollect , at least there is every probability of its being the same ; you will remember the large Snow White Petrel ( a variety of the black species ) which followed us nearly all the way from the Cape to Tasman 's Head and which I was so desirous of procuring without effecting my purpose . |
| 17 | Many other institutes adopted a variety of the armed services funds as their mascot and held ‘ gift sales ’ , ‘ bring and buy ’ events and so on to raise money for their special fund . |
| 18 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 19 | Six Damasks were included and Rosa Mundi as a variety of the Red Rose . |
| 20 | Three varieties of the common Sweet Briar , R. eglanteria , found growing naturally in some parts of Kent , were listed as double , evergreen and double blush , and the Double Yellow is classed as a variety of the single , Rosa lutea . |
| 21 | Tate Bramald supplies its clients with a variety of the leading packages , but Mr Tate finds that the UK packages are all too often weak on the currency side . |
| 22 | Foreign breeds such as the Ayrshire from Scotland and the Vogtland from Saxony ( a variety of the German Red ) were imported to increase milk yields but not very successfully . |
| 23 | Ranald , do you find a rock the size of these two , and we 'll use them as a base for the first skep . |
| 24 | Stockings that were past repair were used as a base for the new victory roll hairstyle . |
| 25 | The main focus of the statement was on the need to guarantee peace through enhanced regional economic integration in order to achieve " a process at the national and regional level which permits an accelerated reconstruction and transformation of production and technology of the Central American countries as a base for the efficient and dynamic insertion of the region into the world market " . |
| 26 | The Reef is built up from the hard skeletons of dead polyps , and forms a base for the living coral . |
| 27 | Often local pubs serve as a base for the local community : as Neil Richardson pointed out in CAMRA 's Pub Preservation report of 1980 , ‘ The pub is first and foremost a social centre , the best ever invented … |
| 28 | Plymouth is a base for the Royal Navy , making , repairing and servicing warships and training their crews . |
| 29 | As the week-long election campaign got under way , a base of the exiled opposition movement , the Mojahedin-e Khalq ( " People 's Combatants " ) , at Ashraf , Iraq , was attacked by some 10 Iranian airforce bombers on the morning of April 5 . |
| 30 | Israeli aircraft on Jan. 6 attacked Madjleyoun , a village 5 km east of Sidon near the refugee camp of Ayn-al-Hulwah , and claimed to have destroyed a base of the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) which an Israeli official said was " used as a headquarters and launching-pad for terrorist attacks " . |