Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation . |
| 2 | Cindy 's half-hour of fashion chit-chat on MTV , titled House Of Style , features the covergirl with an assortment of gal pals — Sandra Bernhard , Naomi , Linda et al . |
| 3 | The defence as a whole do not deal with the back pass rule well . |
| 4 | For them , they played it on the ground , and so their forwards could get to the ball … or pressure the defence for a back pass , or a throw in . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 6 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 7 | The effectiveness of the castle for the defence of a country was , however , qualified by two circumstances . |
| 8 | Conventional armaments are used for the defence of a country , or small , supported offences on countries . |
| 9 | The defence of a firm accused of predatory pricing is often that it is merely responding to competition : so evidence of its intentions may be quite important in deciding whether a firm 's conduct is predatory or not . |
| 10 | For those preoccupied with culture , the defence of a brand new African culture arose because the British denied the validity of all except British culture . |
| 11 | EDUCATION leaders have rallied to the defence of a school blasted by government inspectors . |
| 12 | EDUCATION leaders have rallied to the defence of a school blasted by government inspectors . |
| 13 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 14 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 15 | It is like the Lord Chief Justice giving evidence for the defence in an appeal case . |
| 16 | The 7% margin against the Council 's plans for monitoring visits to sole practitioners might have been expected to be larger in view of the fact that the response as a whole was weighted so heavily in favour of sole practitioners . |
| 17 | The Cognitive–Behaviour Therapies share a central assumption that the response of a person to a situation is not simply a product of external rewards and punishments but is influenced by the individual 's idiosyncratic interpretation of their situation . |
| 18 | There were three objectives in this study , first of all , to measure the response of a marker tumour to the two strains of B C G. |
| 19 | The Laplacian derivation of the response of a series resonant circuit comprising resistance R , inductance L and capacitance C , to an e.m.f. suddenly applied at time , is worthy of comparison with the direct derivation of the same response carried out in section 4.5 through the solution of appropriate differential equations . |
| 20 | The dashpot is used to denote the retarded nature of the response of a material to any applied stress . |
| 21 | The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine " megalomartyr " Menignos , relocated in Dijon , and the whole Benignus dossier is probably best interpreted as the response of a bishop to a non-Christian cult which he had not been able to stamp out . |
| 22 | The reason for this lies in the response of a polymer to an alternating stress . |
| 23 | There is a note of disapproval in the response of an official to a question about relations with the other big campaigners : ‘ We work quite often with Friends of the Earth , less often with Greenpeace . ’ |
| 24 | Labour 's transport spokesman , Brian Wilson , said : ‘ This vote is the response of an industry in which morale is at rock bottom . ’ |
| 25 | In Chapters 2 and 3 of this book , case studies of the response of an Oxfordshire primary and secondary school to the Oxfordshire scheme for school self-evaluation ( SSE ) are presented . |
| 26 | To reply instead yes would give a feeling of ‘ finality ’ , of ‘ end of the conversation ’ ; if A did have something to say about John Smith , the response with a fall would make it difficult for A to continue . |
| 27 | Police investigating the IRA firebomb blitz at the Gateshead MetroCentre ten days ago say they are pleased by the response to a weekend appeal to shoppers for information . |
| 28 | Such attempts have usually been based on the notion that the response to a stimulus presented in , say , the left visual field , should be quicker from the left hand than from the right . |
| 29 | Because each treatment occurs once and only once in each block , the response to a treatment averaged over the blocks is a valid measure of the effect of that treatment ( and , less important , the block averages are valid measures of the block effects ) . |
| 30 | The CD industry might provide 230 jobs in Swindon , but judging by the response to a poll on local radio , most people would like to see prices lowered . |