Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm because it crossed the Trent quite a number of times , and quite a number of trestle er wooden bridges were involved in that construction . |
| 2 | From the mid-1970s onwards a number of factors began to threaten the continued existence of this ‘ single capacity ’ system : |
| 3 | They went to the cinema twice a week . ’ |
| 4 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 5 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 6 | Many alpinists reconnoitre their approach to a mountain on the afternoon before a climb , and this good practice should apply equally to the descent route . |
| 7 | Victorian , of course , but if you spend sixty-four years on the throne then a lot of building styles are going to be named after you . |
| 8 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 9 | The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents . |
| 10 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 11 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 12 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ With a rich and such an early song it sings ’ when ‘ sallow catkins once all downy white/ turn like the sunshine into golden light … yet on the hawthorn scarce a leaf appears . ’ |
| 14 | Well that one really is I mean cos I see them up in the woods quite a lot |
| 15 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 16 | We can juggle the hours around a bit to fit in with other things . ’ |
| 17 | However , if the settlor can control the investments etc a point may be reached where the line has been transgressed . |
| 18 | But higher education should be a more exploratory affair and the university more a community of scholars . ’ |
| 19 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 20 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |
| 21 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 22 | Well , I see her in the Naafi quite a lot . |
| 23 | If you should find the cottage more a liability than you had envisaged then we can perhaps talk business in the future . |
| 24 | If the geometric domains are to be described by their orthogonal excursions in the local space of the objects then a pin forced to the bottom of a hole will have a five boundary touching condition . |
| 25 | After all , though the gains were impressive , the market is back only to where it was before the Budget exactly a month earlier . |
| 26 | The first edition , dated 1796 , apparently contained the notorious instruction , in the treatment of ‘ staggers ’ , of having the ‘ hair clipped off the pasterns as high as the fetlock , and boiling water poured on the part twice a day ’ . |
| 27 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 28 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 29 | We get some disks from the States once a month , that are in WordPerfect |
| 30 | The very , the very strays are where the wire goes , if you look at the drawing there a bit er , it actually comes in and out you know , one , one of them is actually the same , it actually just comes in and loops in and goes out again and you may |