Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 2 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 3 | It is like the Lord Chief Justice giving evidence for the defence in an appeal case . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have n't been out to the park in a couple of months and that visit was strictly business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The deliberate ambiguity in gender and sexual preference built into images problematizes reality and the normative in a sense not dissimilar to the way that surrealism and pop art ( discussed above ) operate . |
| 9 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 10 | ‘ Supporters ’ are figures — beasts , birds , mythical creatures and humans — depicted on either side of the shield in a coat of arms . |
| 11 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
| 12 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 13 | This conditional landholding — the pomestie — created the nucleus of a new service stratum dependent on the Prince in a way the boyars had never been . |
| 14 | The treaty of October 1954 included temporary provision for British re-use of the base in an East–West crisis . |
| 15 | However , it was not long before the courts began to use the provision in an attempt to curb insider trading . |
| 16 | snatching the backbone in a fist of quills . |
| 17 | The ASB agreed that changes in shareholders ' funds other than those included in the statement of total recognised gains and losses can also be important in understanding the change in a reporting entity 's financial position , and concluded that this additional information should be required in a reconciliation of movements in shareholders ' funds . |
| 18 | In ( 26 ) , the main verb manage denotes what led up to the realization of the infinitive or , better , what put the support in a position to realize it . |
| 19 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 20 | Lorna rode so far , dismounted and left the bike in a hedge and walked on . |
| 21 | A second factor is the existence in a region of a disproportionately large number of constituencies , enabling a party ( especially the strongest ) to win more seats than it would normally . |
| 22 | School Internal Evaluation processes would be one way of involving the Board in a role of shared responsibility for quality education . |
| 23 | Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes . |
| 24 | After the vital 2-1 win , which eased the Goodison Park crisis , Beardsley said : ‘ It means everything to get the winner in a derby — that is what dreams are made of . |
| 25 | * Pay particular attention to the relationship between the subject and the verb in a sentence : check agreement , watch for unrelated participles , and remove intervening commas as necessary ( see pp. 122 – 4 ) . |
| 26 | The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points . |
| 27 | He understands events as wholes broken into chunks for recall and created as propositions by identification of central aspects , most closely corresponding to the verb in an utterance . |
| 28 | FoE has previously used the technique in an effort to divert the route of the M40 from two sites in Oxfordshire . |
| 29 | Mostly it was hot chocolate she made , warming the milk in a saucepan on the stove before mixing it . |
| 30 | gets as dirty as the mattress in a brothel … |