Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of 1990 , working from Kingsdale Master Cave , Crossley and Yeadon , joined by John Cordingley and Russell Carter , managed to force a route through into the King Pot main water . |
| 2 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 3 | Through their work of feeding and clothing the children on the street , organising places for them to sleep in safety and providing them with a route out of the barrios , the staff of Casa Alianza have learnt how the police look after the children . |
| 4 | Richmond was the first black man to find in sport a route out of the despair and misery which were integral parts of his enslavement . |
| 5 | For most of the women , paid work had been a route out of the family and domestic and financial dependence . |
| 6 | A land-use survey was made on a route out of the city centre — in this case Mansfield Road , and the land use and building use were noted on a rough map ( see fig 3 ) . |
| 7 | They decided to cut across the coastal plain and head for a wadi that would provide a route back to the top of the escarpment . |
| 8 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |
| 9 | We skirted the artificial Llys y-fran reservoir and chose a route back on the tiny lanes which connect the farms . |
| 10 | The duty imposed by RSC Ord 22 , r7 and CCR Ord 11 , r7 not to disclose a payment in to the trial judge until all questions of liability and damages have been decided is extended to the Court of Appeal by Ord 59 , r12A . |
| 11 | Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole . |
| 12 | It would be a provision both outside the erm Greater York area and because of the erm statutory definition of the greenbelt being about six miles erm from from York City Centre , it would also be outside the greenbelt . |
| 13 | A trial off along the latter having a unpromising appearance was soon stopped . |
| 14 | It was a wonderful vision but over the course of centuries , the gardens became building plots , access to the new houses being obtained by demolishing part of the ground floor of a house to provide a passageway through to the new dwellings . |
| 15 | For Freud , this lure of the group is a regression away from the tensions of living in civilized society , with its high development of ego ideal , or conscience , among its members . |
| 16 | Since goodness is a matter of degree , the extent to which one has promoted the good is a function both of the number of good things produced or things made good and of the degree of goodness to which they are raised . |
| 17 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 18 | ‘ The best defence for our colonies , as well as for our coasts , ’ he had argued the previous year , ‘ is to have a squadron always to the westward … [ which ] may in all probability either keep the French in port , or give them battle with advantage if they come out . ’ |
| 19 | I remember a case midway between the wars at The Oval , while playing for Surrey 2nd XI against Buckinghamshire . |
| 20 | This case is , as is readily appreciated , a case merely for the existence of some sort of second chamber , and not for the House of Lords as at present composed . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll put a girdle round about the earth |
| 22 | So we 're going back in time a bit today for the mystery movie quiz . |
| 23 | But he looked a bit uncertainly into the glass . |
| 24 | " Busy people are never too busy to do what they know to be important " was the challenging comment that brought me under his spell and a bit later into the ranks of his followers . |
| 25 | Terry Scott played a sergeant ( and then disappeared until quite a bit later in the series ) . |
| 26 | Not yet , that comes a bit later in the term . |
| 27 | Let us get a bit closer to the new clause . |
| 28 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 29 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 30 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |