Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1985 is very charming and beautifully balanced , the 1986 seemingly in a quite different style — chewily tannic and concentrated , but unpredictable . |
| 2 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 3 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 4 | You 're now ready to knock the joint apart with a mallet or hammer and a block of scrap softwood . |
| 5 | Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving . |
| 6 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 7 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 8 | Nykrog , for instance , suggested the morals were a redundant , fossilized feature inherited by the fabliaux from twelfth-century precursors that were fables ; Ménard sees the moral largely as a façade and Charles Muscatine is most inclined to see the moral simply as a convenient , traditional way of closing a text . |
| 9 | I I often , well , usually , if I 'm in the country at the time I bet on the National just for a , for a to sort of waste some money . |
| 10 | You 're getting the thousand five hundred , lift the five hundred leave the thousand there for a car like . |
| 11 | I have had a cheque account with this organisation for over 20 years and a mortgage for seven ; the latter now for a comparatively small proportion of my house value . |
| 12 | The corner house on the other side of the street ( 31/585 ) , the Pachta Palace , was rebuilt in the 1730s probably to a design by K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 13 | British Rail investigators said the car , carrying the five home from a party at a local public house , ignored flashing red warning lights and zig-zagged round the automatic half-barrier at Moorends shortly before midnight on Saturday . |
| 14 | Furthermore , if by the nature of the goods and/or the work , any defects therein or any failure thereof to conform as aforesaid does not or would not become apparent ( despite the carrying out of any examination and/or such tests ) until after use we may reject the same even after a reasonable period of use . |
| 15 | The resemblance is strengthened by the fact that the surface gravity turns out to be the same at all points on the event horizon , just as the temperature is the same everywhere in a body at thermal equilibrium . |
| 16 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 17 | The three-litre is available only as an automatic , the two-litre also as a five-speed manual . |
| 18 | The Infinite becomes merely the extension ad infinitum of the finite instead of a reality ‘ wholly other ’ . |
| 19 | The police managed on this occasion to whisk the two away to a more distant jail . |
| 20 | Rosie gave him an affectionate kiss , and Shelley decided that she needed to go for a walk around the hospital , to leave the two together for a while . |
| 21 | This year , Armani is pairing longer-than-ever cardigan jackets with tiny little shorts in matching suiting , sometimes weaving the two together in a one-piece coat-dress . |
| 22 | Many a time I have walked in the neighbouring church grounds aurally locating the sound of the distant well [ Ashwell ] , shifting my focus to the sound of the wind blowing through the tops of an adjacent circle of Scots Pine , then merging the two together in a synthesis of natural sound to create a powerful aurally based sense of place . |
| 23 | ( A strange distinction , this , since the KEF arrangement is probably the closest yet to a true concentric — the others are misnomers and should really be termed coaxial. ) claim that their composite driver is essentially free from the dispersion discontinuities in and around the crossover region , which inevitably result when tweeter and bass/midrange driver are physically separated ( because the directivities of the two drive units do not match in the crossover region the perceived tonal balance is modified as the listener moves position ) . |
| 24 | Pupils move from one station to the next either at a specified time or when they are ready . |