Example sentences of "the [noun] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 2 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 3 | One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government . |
| 4 | It was , there 's the basement and then a large room above where they used to have meetings er , you see , and er , and er , well they did they had friends from Stowmarket go and visit them , you see . |
| 5 | Articulated syntheses have vectorial qualities — not only a weight within the field but also a direction . |
| 6 | Reasons of security lie behind the decision and only a few works will not be staying , including a handful of objects and paintings belonging to the artist himself and the painting ‘ Montroig , the church and the people ’ ( 1919 ) which has been promised to the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona . |
| 7 | When at last he was satisfied with the elevation he supervised the loading ; a dry wad over the cartridge and then a damp one . |
| 8 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 9 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 10 | They opened the gates by the steps and quite a few people are coming and going through them now . |
| 11 | Iridescent sequins attract the light and just a few scattered on to a design are really eye-catching . |
| 12 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 13 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 14 | Is there a bottomless pit as suggested in the drawing or just a further depression that can be filled with a little more investment ? |
| 15 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 16 | Sadly , mass closures and redundancies have become commonplace , it 's no longer hitting the headlines , just a few small columns in the paper , so I ask you delegates , go back to your branches , raise the issue not just about coal but about all unemployment , chase up the media , write to your M P , especially the Tories , support the rallies and maybe a petition from this conference could be organized , but I say raise hell , give them no peace , one job loss is one too many and we ai n't gon na accept redundancy in any of our sections without a bloody good fight . |
| 17 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 18 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 19 | Queen 's Bench Masters ' Practice Direction of 25 March , 1988 requires that where an order is made transferring an action from the Queen 's Bench Division to a county court , the party having carriage of the order by himself or his solicitor shall forthwith produce at the Filing Department of the Central Office the order transferring the action and shall file : ( 1 ) a copy of the order transferring the action ; ( 2 ) a statement of the names and addresses of the parties and of their solicitors ; ( 3 ) copies of any pleadings served ; ( 4 ) if he is the plaintiff and has not served a statement of claim , particulars of his claim together with a copy for each defendant ; ( 5 ) if he is the defendant and only a counterclaim is transferred and no counterclaim has been served , particulars of the counterclaim together with a copy for the plaintiff ; ( 6 ) where money has been paid into court , a copy of the notice of payment into court ; ( 7 ) a statement of the index numbers of any affidavits filed . |
| 20 | It 's a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world , this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability . |
| 21 | By 1800 less than a third of English imports came from the continent and only a fifth of her exports went there . |
| 22 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 23 | Analysed corpora contain not only the tags of each of the words but also a syntactic analysis of each extract . |
| 24 | The remainder include the African whydahs and indigo birds , the cowbirds of North and South America , the honeyguides and even a duck — the black-headed duck of South America . |
| 25 | As they lay on the floor , he went at Pascoe with knees and elbows , everything uncoordinated , getting a blow in to the cheekbone and then a knee close enough to the groin to make Pascoe panic . |
| 26 | On Columbus Avenue near the waterfront and just a short stroll from Pier 39 and Ghiradelli Square , the friendly Fisherman 's Wharf is a medium-sized hotel within easy walking distance of many of San Francisco 's major attractions . |
| 27 | It is half the height of the parent and quite a treasure , especially for small gardens . |
| 28 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 29 | So there will be an accumulation of electrons on the surface of one of the plates and consequently a deficiency of electrons at the other plate 's surface . |
| 30 | There was a large barn behind the gallery and originally a door at each end , one leading to the house . |