Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we have tasted the intimacy of a whole group being with the Father and hearing his voice , there is placed in the believer a hunger for this that will not go away . |
| 2 | It lit up her face with the intimacy of a shared confidence , as if they were old sparring partners . |
| 3 | Loretta turned to Simmons , feeling it was not an auspicious moment to trouble the porter with a sensitive request . |
| 4 | I think the defence as a whole unit has played tremendously well over the hols . |
| 5 | Emerson got a carbon copy of his first try after a swift counter attack , Stevens , came across from his wing into the centre to slice through the defence for a fine individual score , and left winger Paul McAteer raced in from 20 metres . |
| 6 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 7 | Mitch Cook wrong-footed the defence with a low free-kick and Cusack stole in to side-foot home . |
| 8 | The moral seemed obvious : the reversal of the onslaught on wages and the defence of a minimum wage , if not the establishment of a living wage , could be secured by an alliance among unions . |
| 9 | We should also recall that the nature of the war , sieges pursued by both sides and the defence of a long frontier stretching from Le Crotoy in the east to Mont-Saint-Michel in the west , dictated a kind of war in which heavy cavalry played relatively little part other than in defence . |
| 10 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 11 | In the case of some such biographies the biographer may be concerned with the defence of a dead person , which is sometimes the case with biographies written by loving sons or daughters . |
| 12 | VAN HALEN have come to the defence of a 19-year-old fan arrested for wearing one of the band 's T-shirts . |
| 13 | Last night — and in every waking moment since — she had tried to convince herself that hers was just a chemical reaction , the response of a healthy female body to that of an unusually attractive male . |
| 14 | Determination of the response of a four-terminal network to an input pulse by means of the Fourier transform technique generally involves a mathematically difficult inverse Fourier transformation . |
| 15 | The decision to maintain the acceptance of a long-standing invitation to go on Mr. Byrne 's show in Dublin on Friday night was prompted by the opportunity that it afforded to speak to the people of the Republic of Ireland about terrorism and the response of a democratic society . |
| 16 | Such a signal can arise as a result of a nonsinusoidal input signal being applied or through the response of a nonlinear component to a sinusoidal signal . |
| 17 | Armed with the appropriate value of the small-signal complex impedance , the signal response of a nonlinear network to any small input may be found in just the same way as the response of a linear network to an input of any magnitude . |
| 18 | ‘ Fade ’ is a pharmacological phenomenon in which the response of a steady state system to a given stimulus decreases with time ; thus it might be argued that the cigarette smoking had no effect and that the observed reduction in secretion simply coincided with system fade . |
| 19 | Consider the response of a five-and-a-half-year-old girl in a Yorkshire infant school where she is asked to say how two pictures are different from each other . |
| 20 | In view of the distributed nature of a transmission line , to determine its behaviour it will generally be necessary to consider the response of an infinitesimal element of it . |
| 21 | For example , its Radar charts are suitable for displaying measurements involving angles — such as the response of an aerial — and it includes a wider range of fit types for plotting points or fitting trend lines than most spreadsheets and has options such as moving averages . |
| 22 | Upon the use of ‘ Esq ’ or ‘ Mr ’ in addressing communications — a choice which Mr McBain is content to leave to instinct — perhaps one might direct his attention to the response of an old Ayrshire lady who received the suggestion that she should address a local worthy as ‘ Esq ’ with some bewilderment . |
| 23 | Whereas , therefore , his Treatise on Money ( 1930 ) has been accounted for along ‘ externalist ’ lines , as the response to a political context , the General Theory of 1936 is best understood in ‘ internalist ’ terms , as the outcome of a process of intellectual discovery . |
| 24 | They 've been encouraged by the response to a new artist 's impression of a man seen in the village . |
| 25 | On the other hand , sodium nitroprusside abolished the response to low dose cholecystokinin and reduced the response to a high dose by about 80% . |
| 26 | The existence of a mark-up has to be taken into account when considering the response to a corporate tax . |
| 27 | The fact that we can judge precisely the response to a particular ad is a slightly dangerous idea . ’ |
| 28 | The response to a previous appeal has , after more than two years , dwindled , and the prisoners are once again short of things to read . |
| 29 | Aid agencies pointed to Uganda and Rwanda as two more countries in serious difficulties , while the UN Disaster Relief Organization claimed that the response to an international appeal for aid for civil war-torn Liberia had been practically non-existent . |
| 30 | This is an end of year statement if you look , er giving the erm the income of a hundred and twenty five thousand and ninety nine pounds , and the expenditure there on the on the back page , of eighty two thousand seven hundred and eighty three pounds . |