Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 2 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 3 | She did not care a damn whether the information was protected or not . |
| 4 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 5 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 6 | If as a GP you are in somebody 's home and give a thrombolytic and the patient dies , you will be blamed . |
| 7 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 8 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 9 | It was n't a bad meal , but it was a rip-off and the service was appalling . |
| 10 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 11 | A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole . |
| 12 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 13 | Taplow was supposed to be a Lutheran but the prisoner said he believed in Purgatory . |
| 14 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 15 | If you do not wear an available seat belt , you are liable to a fixed penalty or a fine if the case goes to court . |
| 16 | Only three weeks ago , Benidorm 's public prosecutor demanded a year 's imprisonment and a fine if the MP were to be convicted on a charge of obstructing the police . |
| 17 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 18 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 19 | Sometimes the inlet pipe can be eased over a little and the overflow trimmed to suit . |
| 20 | Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’ |
| 21 | Paul had asked me to do a swap to do his early next Wednesday so yeah , put the form in and everything the form came back today saying he 's already on a late and the day that he 's supposed to be repaying me he 's already on shift |
| 22 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 23 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 24 | These parts are , at best , inefficient in a P-40 and the result is overheating so their taxi time has to be kept to an absolute minimum . ) |
| 25 | A FINANCIER who made a billion when the pound collapsed yesterday gave £32 million to charity . |
| 26 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 27 | Yes here I am lift him , so erm yeah so you just do a grey and the green |
| 28 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 29 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 30 | It has now been addressed with elegant passion by no more subversive a revolutionary than the president of Assurances Generales de France , Michel Albert . |