Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cindy 's half-hour of fashion chit-chat on MTV , titled House Of Style , features the covergirl with an assortment of gal pals — Sandra Bernhard , Naomi , Linda et al . |
| 2 | It is like the Lord Chief Justice giving evidence for the defence in an appeal case . |
| 3 | There is a note of disapproval in the response of an official to a question about relations with the other big campaigners : ‘ We work quite often with Friends of the Earth , less often with Greenpeace . ’ |
| 4 | Labour 's transport spokesman , Brian Wilson , said : ‘ This vote is the response of an industry in which morale is at rock bottom . ’ |
| 5 | In Chapters 2 and 3 of this book , case studies of the response of an Oxfordshire primary and secondary school to the Oxfordshire scheme for school self-evaluation ( SSE ) are presented . |
| 6 | The issue centres upon the response to an order made by Mr. Justice Garland in the early hours of 2 May and the consideration that I gave to that order at a meeting at 4 pm on the same day . |
| 7 | For the majority of people the response to an odour is instantaneous , disappearing immediately the odorant is removed . |
| 8 | But the overwhelming size of the response to an initiative like ‘ Childline ’ indicates that it would be dangerous to conclude that young people do not have problems even if first attempts to tap them fail . |
| 9 | Her ritual return to Møn was the response to an undertaking , her visits to the house and the sites a reassurance . |
| 10 | In a useful publication from the Reading Centre at Reading University , Root ( 1983 ) describes the response to an article she had written in Child Education . |
| 11 | It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances . |
| 12 | We were given a lot of work to prepare in our spare time and I remember trying to keep warm in the daytime in an overcoat and scarf while I wrote an essay or struggled with Latin composition . |
| 13 | The revival of the 1930s and early 1940s was temporary , brought on by extreme hardship , the temporary decline of the market economy in some rural areas , and the inability of an administration in the last stage of colonial rule to adjust . |
| 14 | The title is aimed at 8 to 12 year olds and uses the garden or the park as an observation ground for understanding how nature works . |
| 15 | The officially preferred route cut across the entrance to the park on an embankment . |
| 16 | In response to the violence the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) had deployed tanks and armoured vehicles in the park , and on April 2 Croatian police complied with a JNA order to withdraw from the park in an effort to reduce tensions . |
| 17 | The five Moorsbus operators have agreed to accept each other 's tickets on services within the park in an effort to encourage greater use of the new services . |
| 18 | The pharmaceutical industry is in a pivotal position to address the problem of the continuing high mortality from paracetamol overdose as the addition of an antidote , such as methionine , to all available preparations might prevent every death that currently occurs . |
| 19 | The Oedipus fable , for example , begins with a non-disabled person whose transgressions are dealt with by the addition of an impairment . |
| 20 | BR has also decided to give Middlesbrough , Stockton and Hartlepool more direct links with Carlisle with the addition of an extra through service . |
| 21 | Next , let unc be the unit matrix with the addition of an element k in the unc position . |
| 22 | The August event will take a similar format to the spring event with the addition of an LMS Dray with horse , Hansom Carriage with horse and a Scammel Scarrib Mechanical Horse all of which will be at the Ingrow Railway Centre . |
| 23 | Complex words are of two major types : words made from a basic stem word with the addition of an affix , and compound words , which are made of two ( or occasionally more ) independent English words ( e.g. ‘ ice-cream ’ , ‘ armchair ’ ) . |
| 24 | This week , however , the only progress was the addition of an adjective : the chief Syrian negotiator , Mouaffak Allaf , said Syria was willing to trade ‘ full ’ peace for full Israeli withdrawal . |
| 25 | DNase I digestion patterns of actinomycin- tyr T DNA complexes at various times after the addition of an excess of calf thymus DNA . |
| 26 | The addition of an -e to the end of a simple consonant-vowel-constant word ( e.g. hat , cap , pin ) is a way of indicating a change in the way the vowel sound is to be pronounced . |
| 27 | Teknivent , US , has announced the addition of an electrospray option to its Vector/two GC/LC-MS data system . |
| 28 | At the time , however , the opportunity for an alliance failed to trigger a new mass movement . |
| 29 | During the lifetime of Mr B 's mother , his great house has represented for Pamela , as a servant , the opportunity for an education in the morals , skills , and tastes of a true lady . |
| 30 | ‘ Closure of the USM may prompt a rush of restructuring by USM companies that decide that this is the opportunity for an MBO or a delisting , or even to maximise shareholder value by break-up or sale , but the current recession may not be the ideal timing for any of these options , ’ says PW 's Nigel Crockford . |