Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb -s] a " in BNC.

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1 The algorithm keeps a second list , called CLOSED , of nodes which have been expanded and removed from OPEN .
2 As well as the set OPEN of known nodes which might lead to goals , and whose children have yet to be explored , the algorithm keeps a set called CLOSED of other known nodes whose children have been constructed .
3 The algorithm keeps a set of several strings .
4 Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others .
5 The algorithm has a new variable , S , whose value is such a pair .
6 To do that , at each step , the algorithm constructs a planning sub-task .
7 Thus , the algorithm searches a space in which each node is a pair : ( N , LOp )
8 The porter stops a couple of paces on and says , ‘ Paul . ’
9 The porter has a kilt poking out from under his jacket , and Macduff is stuck with wearing a raincoat on top of his dinner suit for the whole show .
10 Patrick Edgeworth 's Boswell For The Defence has a plot of sorts — the barrister 's defence of Mary Broad , an escapee from the penal colony at Sydney Cove — but , in the end , the form defeats any narrative thrust .
11 The defence needs a bit of experience …
12 If they are not resident in the United Kingdom then they will be assessed only if the income has a UK source .
13 Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not .
14 The tent has a very large extended bellend which has plenty of room for cooking and storing equipment .
15 The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth .
16 I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ?
17 Or if it stands near a town , the political planners swarm into the house , turn it into a rabbit-warren of black-hatted officers of This and That , and the park becomes a site for some ‘ overspill ’ — a word as beastly as the thing it describes .
18 Where the park straddles a county boundary , two joint-planning boards were established , and these have operated successfully in both the Peak and Lake District regions .
19 To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard .
20 The park has a small number of wild rabbits , but Mr Weston said these were certainly not from that population .
21 The addition creates a new strength for us in American nineteenth-century genre painting ’ , says Ms Neill .
22 The genealogist has a job to sort it all out , so it is no wonder that many rose lists get into a mess and tend to lump types together more for brevity and convenience than for strict botanical clarity .
23 The guitar has a fair amount of natural sustain and the three Chandler pickups emphasise this , as well as producing a warm tone with enough cut to sound through .
24 The nature of the attitudes suggests a willingness on the part of many Solihull secondary teachers to undertake institutional self-reviews and to consider self-generated institutional improvements .
25 The suite features a substantial Pavarotti-sized shower where the Yeltsins can prepare for their visit to the Stock Exchange , laying a wreath at Westminster Abbey , and that night 's banquet with Prime Minister at the Royal Naval College , Greenwich .
26 If there is a Will , the executor has the right to decide whether it will be a burial or a cremation , whether the Will expresses a particular wish or not .
27 The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached .
28 The humbucker carries a clean sound well , although there 's a hint of midrange that made me go for the coil-tap to keep things sounding sweet .
29 If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ?
30 The appendix lists a fascinating array of paintings , handled at one time or other by Colnaghi and which are today in North American public collections .
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