Example sentences of "a [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
2 | A kitchen the same size , off which there are small rooms , rather like chapels off a cathedral . |
3 | ( 4 ) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section it shall be competent for a licensing board to entertain objections from the chief constable , lodged at any time before the hearing of an application , if the board is satisfied that there is sufficient reason why due notice and intimation of the objection could not be given , and in such a case the chief constable shall cause his objections to be intimated to the applicant before the hearing . |
4 | ( 6 ) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection , it shall be competent for the licensing board to entertain objections from the chief constable , lodged at any time before the hearing of the application if the board is satisfied that there is sufficient reason why due notice and intimation of the objection could not be given , and in such a case the chief constable shall , where practicable , cause his objections to be intimated to the applicant before the hearing . |
5 | In the case of a registered title , a charge may have been secured by the less formal method of giving notice to the Land Registry of " Notice of Deposit " ( or " Intended Deposit " ) of the land certificate , and in such a case the appropriate document is the " Withdrawal of Notice " , which is endorsed on the back of the official receipt of notice of deposit . |
6 | Acting for a buyer in such a case the appropriate requisition is : Withdrawal of Notice of Deposit ( entry no on the charges register ) relating to the property must be handed over on completion . |
7 | In such a case the only way to make sense of the rule that the buyer must bear the loss is still to make him pay whilst allowing him to take whatever remains of the goods . |
8 | In such a case the subordinate legislation may be used in order to construe the parent Act : see Hanlon v. The Law Society [ 1981 ] A.C. 124 , 193 , per Lord Lowry . |
9 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
10 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
11 | But Harry spoke a bit the last time we went , he said So what hire a car . |
12 | A bit the anti-smoking bit , on a bit too long . |
13 | According to results published on Oct. 12 by the Interior Ministry , a referendum the previous day overwhelmingly approved the dissolution of the People 's Assembly , and fresh elections were scheduled for Nov. 29 , with further elections if necessary on Dec. 6 . |
14 | Your Mum 's got a fanny with a split the wrong way . |
15 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
16 | With luck you may effect a recapture the same day by one or other of the methods described . |
17 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
18 | And there 's a support the other side is a book shelf . |
19 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
20 | I if I was a building the last thing I would want would be people gawping at me . |
21 | [ 12 ] With a click the discreet door shut . |
22 | Can you do can you do a hexagon the other way , which is six sided ? |
23 | First of all , the more water-furrows in a field the more land is wasted ; secondly a field that is ploughed in narrow stetches that are ridged up slightly to assist the drainage is not the best seed-bed for a crop of corn , as the ridges are bound , to some degree , to cause an unequal ripening of the seed . |
24 | The Tolson Memorial Museum is in Ravensknowle Park , where some parts of the town 's eighteenth-century Cloth Hall have been re-erected , after the historic building 's demolition in 1930 to make way for a cinema the local product was displaced by fantasies woven in Hollywood . |
25 | You got into a fight the other night . |
26 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
27 | There had been a storm the previous day and she could still see white horses in the bay from where she was sitting by a south-facing window . |
28 | But our captain , who knew that part of the world very well , warned us that there would be a storm the next day . |
29 | But what also shone through was how good a play The Hooded Owl was . |
30 | ‘ We saw a tent the other day , ’ said George . |