Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter case a company ( whose business was shipping brokerage ) bought a car for the use of its directors . |
| 2 | In the latter case a trespass is committed even if the structure ( a crane ) was at a height which did not affect the plaintiff 's use of the land ( Anchor Brewhouse Developments Ltd v Berkley House ( Docklands Developments ) Ltd ( 1987 ) 38 BLR 82 ) . |
| 3 | The IRA also claimed responsibility for the killing of two civilians on Jan. 14 and 15 ( in the latter case a Catholic who , the IRA later admitted , had been shot " in error " ) . |
| 4 | In the latter case a set of different brochures would be issued by any single firm . |
| 5 | In the latter case a traveller applied for aircraft tickets and received a letter saying ‘ I have pleasure in confirming the following reservations for you … ’ and giving dates , times and numbers of the flights . |
| 6 | In the latter field a paper on legal aspects of sex and disability can be provided by SPOD ( Committee on Sexual and Personal Relationships of the Disabled ) . |
| 7 | By 1525 in the latter shire a quarter of the personal estate in a sample of forty villages was owned by 4 per cent of the rural population , excluding the squires — clearly there were some members of the peasantry who must have had sufficient wealth to dominate their fellows ( 81 , pp.26–7 ; 83 , pp.17 , 142 ) . |
| 8 | They follow an initiative by the Prince of Wales , through Business in the Community , which found that the less capital a company needed to raise , the harder it was to do so on commercial terms . |
| 9 | The less education a woman has , the less important are the delayed costs on later rates of pay of current absence from the labour market , but the higher is the ‘ cost of being female ’ relatively speaking . |
| 10 | First , the dealers ' commission means that the more credit a car buyer takes on , the greater the dealer 's profit . |
| 11 | Intermediate wringing during the drying stage speeds up the process , as mop absorption rates vary in that the more water a mop holds the slower it picks up more water . |
| 12 | Paradoxically , the more fuel a star starts off with , the sooner it runs out . |
| 13 | The more information a template file contains the more useful it becomes . |
| 14 | The more foliage a plant has , the better it is at removing pollution . |
| 15 | So the greater the risk that another male has inseminated the female , the more trouble a male takes to get her to eject the sperm . |
| 16 | Spain on Sept. 23 effectively reintroduced a system of exchange controls ( abolished as recently as February ) , involving interest-free deposits to be made by financial institutions as a counterpart to various categories of sales of pesetas for foreign currency , while Ireland and Portugal on Sept. 24 both limited foreign exchange operations ( including in the former case a ban on punt swap activities by non-residents ) , and the Irish Central Bank on Sept. 28 raised its base rate from 10.75 to 13.75 per cent . |
| 17 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 18 | People could speak English before there was universal literacy , and in the same way a child learns to speak long before he learns to read and write . |
| 19 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 20 | After flushing out food residues they may be brushed with hot alkali degreaser solution in the same way a chest freezer is tackled . |
| 21 | The tactile grooming experience also appears to be enjoyed in much the same way a dog likes to be scratched and stroked , and many predatory species forgo the chance of a quick meal in favour of a good grooming allowing the tiny cleaner to even clamber around inside their mouths without harm . |
| 22 | In just the same way a lot of your friends may choose not to believe in God … or Jesus … or angels … or evil spirits , and they may even try to convince you that they are right ! |
| 23 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 24 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 25 | I felt the same way a horse must have when confronted with a steam engine . |
| 26 | In the same poll a year ago , the figure stood at 79pc . |
| 27 | They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them . |
| 28 | Answering the same question a number of times is a useful exercise in showing how improvements can be made in the way in which you present the facts to the examiner . |
| 29 | The respondent , without authority , keyed commands into a computer and thereby obtained by means of the same computer a discount , to which he was not entitled , on goods being purchased at a supplier . |
| 30 | It comes on the same day a consortium , including Central , took financial control of ITV 's national news service , ITN . |