Example sentences of "a [noun] [is] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 2 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 3 | Although ministers have suspended moves to reduce subsidies until May , many dentists in the North-East say they still believe a reduction is on the cards . |
| 4 | Whether membership of a CU is from the single country viewpoint a step in the direction of freer trade depends upon the tariff levels which prevail before and after joining a CU . |
| 5 | A field is in the shape of a quadrilateral , . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | A Christian is in the Lord 's service . |
| 8 | A Christian is in the Lord 's service . |
| 9 | During the period of each step in which a foot is on the ground , the leg must be straightened ( not bent at the knee ) at least for one moment , and in particular , the supporting leg must be straight in the vertically upright position . ’ |
| 10 | Where there is often a weakness is in the drawing retrieval system . |
| 11 | He looked like a thin , young boy , much younger than he really was , his brown hair like a monk 's without the tonsure . |
| 12 | Reference is emphatically excluded and reflexivity reinforced : ‘ What takes place ’ in a narrative is from the referential ( reality ) point of view literally nothing ; ‘ what happens ’ is language alone , the adventure of language , the unceasing celebration of its coming . ’ |
| 13 | A change is in the air |
| 14 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 15 | The first is that the direction of research within a department is under the control of the supervisors in that Department , for whom the Ph D student does the donkey work . |
| 16 | Not all of the output from a GIS is in the form of maps . |
| 17 | On the way back there is a glorious view ahead of the Five Sisters : if only to witness so lovely a scene , this detour within a detour is worth the extra half-hour . |
| 18 | One a piece is on the board , it is never removed ; so the search space does not have cycles . |
| 19 | Buying something like a car is at the other end of the spectrum from holding cash . |
| 20 | One is to convey some sense of where a child is in the process of learning ; the other is to make easier the analysis of results from groups of children . |
| 21 | £80 a week for temporary accommodation while a home is in the process of being sold . |
| 22 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 23 | She had copper-coloured hair , cut short as a boy 's at the back , with a mop of curls tilted jauntily forward at the front . |
| 24 | When a glider is on the ground it does not pivot around its c.g. as it does in flight . |
| 25 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 26 | Like a cat 's with the sun shining in them . |
| 27 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 28 | Her eyes were half-closed like a cat 's in the sun . |
| 29 | A reference may be controversial from the start , with allegations that the question referred for decision is outside the terms of the expert clause : if a reference is outside the scope of the expert 's jurisdiction , there it will stay , and the issue will be unaffected by an expert having purported to make a decision about it . |
| 30 | It is understood none of the three have been informed there is to be disciplinary hearing but a file is in the hands of Deputy Chief Constable Michael Argent who is in charge of force discipline . |