Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 2 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 3 | Roberta Junk do sound like a wacky tip for the top ! |
| 4 | Dinner is taken by candlelight at a well-dressed table in the elegant dining room . |
| 5 | For Marxists , by contrast , the welfare of the masses is not only economically determined but a quantifiable function of the degree of their immiseration . |
| 6 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 7 | PRESIDING over the collapse of one of America 's largest newspapers has been a humbling experience for the Tribune Company , a Chicago-based media group that is proud of its reputation for tough management . |
| 8 | Having teenagers is a humbling experience at the best of times — and having teenagers taking exams is the greatest leveller of all . |
| 9 | The total represents a three-fold increase on the previous decade , but the real death toll is thought to be far higher . |
| 10 | Although the plans were later cut back , the Suez crisis encouraged a three-fold increase in the then current plans for new nuclear power stations . |
| 11 | The key demands of the protest were a monthly minimum wage of the equivalent of US$536 , a three-fold increase in the basic pension to US$450 , reform of legislation linking pay to productivity and a new collective wage bargaining law . |
| 12 | Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " . |
| 13 | Federal prosecutors say the three were involved in planting five bombs with a total of 150 kg ( 330 lb ) of explosives outside a single-storey building at the Quebec Barracks in Osnabrueck , near the Dutch border , in July 1989 . |
| 14 | The typical England strike under Taylor has been a lofted cross from the flank or dead ball situation into a crowded penalty area , a scramble , then either Gary Lineker or Platt emerging from the melee in celebration . |
| 15 | They are a frontal assault of the Devil not only upon believers but on human beings everywhere . |
| 16 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 17 | Governments over the '60s and '70s , as I suggested earlier , have not had the capacity , even when they have had the will , to launch a frontal assault on the organised working class and force through a radical restructuring in spite of its resistance . |
| 18 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 19 | It is not generally realized that he did write on such topics , though it must be admitted that a frontal attack on the factory system was not likely to be poetically successful . |
| 20 | Political prudence and the dangers of a frontal attack on the Church restrained them to the sale of common lands and the abolition of civil entails , ‘ pulling up by the roots the tree which bears such bitter fruits ’ . |
| 21 | Nizan felt an urgent need to liquidate his bourgeois past , to engage in a frontal attack on the source of his own alienation . |
| 22 | It is highly courageous to launch a frontal attack on the main lines and the main structure of nature , and cowardly to advance by aspects and details ; art is really a battle . |
| 23 | Some approach the canonical figure of Degas with a frontal attack on the patriarchal structure of art history itself ( most vocally expressed by the feminist critiques of Pollock and Callen ) , others offer more tentative snipes at aspects and details of individual works . |
| 24 | But a frontal attack in the face of barbed wire and entrenched machine-guns was unlikely to succeed , and it guaranteed heavy losses . |
| 25 | Politically ‘ modernisation ’ implied , for those who wanted to undertake it , a frontal collision with the main support of traditionalism , the agrarian society ( see chapters 7 and 8 above ) . |
| 26 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 27 | Although each version is intended to serve pedagogical needs , neither one provides a pedagogically-based rationale for the selection of themes that it proposes . |
| 28 | Taxes Act 1988 , s678 deals with the situation where capital sums are paid by a connected company to the settlor and where there have been associated payments made by the trustees to that company . |
| 29 | He gave a moody farewell to the scene which ‘ left many of our kilted heroes on the field cold and stiff ’ . |
| 30 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |