Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 2 | According to MacWeek magazine , Apple has a project under way under the code name Star Trek which involves a rewrite of System 7.1 to provide users of machines built around the 80486 and above an alternative to Microsoft Corp 's Windows . |
| 3 | The flowing blood was the symbol and proof that life had been taken in payment for the sins of the guilty and as a substitute for his own guilt-stained life . |
| 4 | Cornwall was then truly the ‘ ultima thule ’ , the limits of civilisation — or beyond , and indeed many wrote of the Cornish as of a barbaric tribe and treated any elements of civilised behaviour with surprised condescension . |
| 5 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |
| 6 | Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later . |
| 7 | This relatively weak coalification is obviously due to an early ‘ Pre-Permian updoming ’ of the Westphalian and to a late subsidence in very recent times which caused a very young re-coalification that is not yet in equilibrium with the present depth and temperature . |
| 8 | In principal , twice the number of phosphate rotors need to be restricted in forming the duplex than in a single strand helix , although experimentally the adverse entropy change is essentially the same in the two cases . |
| 9 | Emperor Hirohito must be supported and the forces of moderate conservatism strengthened within Japan so as to resist a future challenge either from the left or from a regalvanised extreme right wing . |
| 10 | The Mildenhall aircraft veered away to the left and into a flying club canvas hangar full of light aircraft and churned the lot into kindling . |
| 11 | Tiles can be laid on the diagonal or in a basket weave design to produce handsome effects . |
| 12 | A devastating result is a system for the post-16s that for a soi-disant modern technological society is grossly inadequate — if not near ludicrous by international comparison . |
| 13 | It is also true that there were moments , like the 1720s , the 1780s and to a lesser extent the 1750s , when their establishment was especially noticeable , but even where they existed , large numbers of claimants were still relieved at home . |
| 14 | Interchanges are being arranged with the Chinese and with a group in Paris also pursuing microsimulation . |
| 15 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 16 | Those who were now beginning to pay lay subsidies might think about that wealth and this statute , particularly about its words contrasting the defence of the realm with the endowment of the church — words which were to be echoed by Wyclif in the 1370s and in a royal grant as late as the 1440s . |
| 17 | But Novacek kept up the pressure throughout the fourth and in a nail-biting final game he unleashed a pair of winning service returns to set up victory . |
| 18 | The Act occasioned a considerable debate about the needs of the disabled and as a result much publicity was given to their cause and many of their problems received greater critical attention . |
| 19 | His father , who sat in nine Parliaments for Dorset or Weymouth , was prominent as an opponent of the court in the 1620s and as a Royalist in the civil war . |
| 20 | When the ball was let out Northern 's backs looked the sharper and after a scoreless first half , centre Paul Collins burst on to a short pass from Johnson and sent the speedy Casado racing over . |
| 21 | The mechanics had basically the same but with an extra hundred-square-foot room at the back . |
| 22 | Cos these are exactly the same except with a well and two erm those four holes missing . |
| 23 | My consideration of difference originated in a turn to history in order to repudiate one such theory — specifically , that which construed homosexuality as an embrace of the same because of a fear of the different . |
| 24 | 1.3 A student may undertake a variety of Music Making modules at the same or at a different level for a combination of music categories . |
| 25 | If Midland Life is required to make any payment under the Policyholders ' Protection Act 1975 ( or any enactment amending or replacing the same or of a similar nature ) or if there is any change in the law or Inland Revenue practice affecting a Guaranteed Capital Bond the benefits provided by such a Bond may be varied by Midland Life in such manner as the Midland Life Actuary considers appropriate . |
| 26 | However , whether the expression of P3A - and P3A + variants of α subunit in humans is transcriptionally regulated by the same or by a different promoter/enhancer element is not known . |
| 27 | If the pipe has frozen , the ice ‘ plug ’ is almost certainly outside , and the solution is the same as for a supply pipe — that is , the application of heat . |
| 28 | Where sexual contact takes place in aggravating circumstances ( which are the same as for a first degree offence ) , criminal sexual conduct in the second degree is committed . |
| 29 | The procedures are basically the same as for an ordinary appeal but you will have to pay a fee — usually about £38 . |
| 30 | Mr Taylor-Young also says that costs are basically the same as for an advisory service so unless the client has time and is very keen to be in charge , it is advisable to opt for discretionary management . |