Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The total cost per person , for three months in the field and a contribution to the large peak fee , will be about £10,000 . |
| 32 | At various intervals a shout would go up , a path would be cleared down the middle of the field and a horse would come galloping through the crowd , its bareback rider putting it through its paces . |
| 33 | There has been trouble with its chips , delays in providing disc-drives for the computer and a lack of software to run on it . |
| 34 | The State Visit included the investing of Napoleon III , at Windsor , with the Order of the Garter and a State ball held in the Waterloo Gallery . |
| 35 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 36 | I 'd leave the shop at 6 p.m. , drive off to a gig , ( reeking of chips despite bathing nightly in Domestos ) and return in time for the hour and a half of cleaning which began as soon as the last customer left at midnight . |
| 37 | He had invited her to join the ladies ' sewing circle , and even suggested that she might like to attend the Tuesday evening Bible readings which he ran — he was sure that ‘ dear Miss Mates ’ would release her for the hour and a half the readings usually took . |
| 38 | In addition , there was a further surcharge of 2.5 p/kWh during the hour and a half of heaviest demand during the day , at whatever time that occurred . |
| 39 | Also present was the Chairman and a number of members of the Swiss Branch who paraded their Branch Standard . |
| 40 | On the authority of the President , the letter was distributed to immigration adjudicators , with a copy of the decision and a briefing to counsel defending such applications for judicial review . |
| 41 | Canada , Australia and eleven other members of the Interim Committee opposed the decision and a number of other countries abstained . |
| 42 | second , where on registration of a charge the Registrar ( as he can be required to do ) issues a certificate of registration stating the date on which particulars of a charge were delivered to him , this is made conclusive evidence that the particulars were delivered no later than the date stated on the certificate and a presumption that they were delivered no earlier . |
| 43 | The sun , the sea , the beach , the nightlife and a range of bars and restaurants are right on your doorstep . |
| 44 | ‘ There are towels on the rail and a robe behind the door . |
| 45 | ‘ There 's tea in the kitchen and a drink if ye 'd rather . ’ |
| 46 | You still have the jumper and a friend of mine is fond of saying ‘ There is someone , somewhere who wants that garment ! ’ |
| 47 | There is a Sykes memorial in the churchyard and a family vault north-east of the sanctuary . |
| 48 | ‘ It 's true the horse was 100 per cent sound five minutes afterwards , but there was definitely something wrong down at the start and Willie had advice from the starter and a vet . ’ |
| 49 | The recession and a drop in interest rates were also responsible for the dive . |
| 50 | The cash crisis has been blamed on the recession and a breakdown in negotiations with the county council . |
| 51 | The company blames the recession and a downturn in orders . |
| 52 | New Mill consists of a straggle of houses following the course of the lane and a stream . |
| 53 | Vernon Bogdaner a reader in government at the University and a Fellow of Brasenose College , says he too is in favour of P R , and wants the electorate to be given the chance to vote on the issue . |
| 54 | [ John Smeaton , A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Eddystone Lighthouse with Stone , 2nd edn. 1793 ; D. B. Hague and R. Christie , Lighthouses : their Architecture , History and Archaeology , 1975 ; collection of drawings and models in Royal Scottish Museum , Edinburgh ; James Hodge , Four Cornishmen : their Contribution to Science and Engineering , 2nd Kemp memorial lecture , University of Exeter , 23 March 1988 ; Thomas Rowett , ‘ Notes on Original Models of the Eddystone Lighthouses ’ , Transactions of the Newcomen Society , vol. v , 1934–5 . ] |
| 55 | Firemen tackled a blaze in a garage at Beckenham Gardens , Hemlington , Middlesbrough , which destroyed the building and a car inside . |
| 56 | Plastic tubes or ‘ lines ’ are connected to the tap in the cask and a pump — known as a beer engine — or an electric pump draws beer from the cask to the bar . |
| 57 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
| 58 | If fluid from the prostate and a specimen of the ejaculate are also examined , however , the diagnosis rate increases markedly , and over 70 per cent of male contacts were shown to be harbouring the organism in one series where these exhaustive tests were carried out . |
| 59 | It was at Ipswich snorkel club the instructors had brought in their aqualung which consisted of a tank which held the compressed air a regulator which supplied the air to the user and a pressure gauge which told us how much air we had in our tanks — we also had a back pack and harness which secured the tanks to us . |
| 60 | A story about the offender 's arrest nearly doubled the daily circulation of the New York Post In response to the public interest in the crimes , a deal was struck in respect to the rights to the story and a book produced . |