Example sentences of "the [noun pl] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , the expert systems did not assist the experts a great deal but came into their own when both of the 2 experts were not available and an inexperienced technician had to take over . |
| 2 | In the mid-1970s a young woman went to a shop to rent a television set and was required to provide a guarantor . |
| 3 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 4 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 5 | Three more tries to Andy Mullins , Simon Dear and Glenister gave the Quins a 24–3 half-time lead . |
| 6 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 7 | During the reign of the pharaohs a popular contraceptive for Egyptian women was a pessary made of elephant and crocodile dung . |
| 8 | In the cities a nascent proletariat was beginning to flex its muscles , forming short-lived illegal organizations of its own and staging its first major strikes . |
| 9 | The choice of the superb BRNESC green in Melling Road , Aintree , looked capable of giving the Merseysiders a useful home advantage . |
| 10 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 11 | This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases . |
| 12 | This latter formulation would give the courts a greater scope for substitution of judgment , with the additional risk that they would not have to articulate their rationale as clearly as under the heads of purpose and relevancy . |
| 13 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 14 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 15 | The question arose after the Ladies ' Directory case in which Frederick Shaw was convicted of ‘ conspiring to corrupt public morals ’ , and in which one of the Appeal Judges , Lord Simons , had stated that ‘ there remains in the courts a residual power to conserve not only the safety , but also the moral welfare of the State ’ . |
| 16 | While the courts are chary of ‘ trespassing upon the province of Parliament ’ , because of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament , it appears that Parliament is not so willing to accord to the courts a rightful province upon which Parliament should not trespass . |
| 17 | This gave the Germans a temporary advantage , but later on was the main cause which brought the US into the war and thus caused German defeat . ’ |
| 18 | Now , today , I 'm going to break away from the notes a little bit , cos I think , there 's so many things you could bring , we could bring in , and I think some of the points made in the notes will naturally come out in our discussion . |
| 19 | Early on that morning that very same morning in October 1913 , anyone walking or motoring down Westfield Drive , Boston , Massachusetts , would never have given any of the houses a second glance , so ordinary were they , and none more so than number 1015 , a clapboard house like all the others in the street , only one which was in even more urgent need of repainting than most of its neighbours . |
| 20 | Finally , glue a ribbon around the edge of the drum and brush the dragon with a little lustre powder if desired to give the scales a shiny effect . |
| 21 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 22 | From far inside the woods a thin music , a voice singing . |
| 23 | In 1875 Francis Seymour Haden , FRCS , advocated by means of three letters to The Times a disintegrating coffin ‘ … of some lighter permeable material , such as wicker or lattice-work , open at the top , and filled in with any fragrant herbaceous matters that happened to be most readily obtainable . |
| 24 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 25 | There were still to be found on the roads a vagrant population of Celtic wanderers from Scotland or Ireland , and those who followed the travelling occupations like chapmen , pedlars and itinerant entertainers , as well as the true travelling people , the gypsies and tinkers . |
| 26 | ‘ The situation in which a surety is required to give a guarantee or charge property to secure the liability of a debtor to a creditor is on the authorities a fruitful area for the exercise of undue influence , particularly by the debtor over the surety to obtain the guarantee or charge the debtor needs to satisfy the creditor . |
| 27 | ‘ We think we can give the vegetables a clean bill of health , sir . ’ |
| 28 | Even after giving all the titles a thorough scrutiny she still had no idea what he was really like . |
| 29 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 30 | However , formal induction procedures and the allocation of a job to perform can structure the signals a great deal more rigidly . |