Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [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 algorithm includes an extra variable called LR , for ’ Last Rule ’ , which is set to the rule which generated the current state N. |
| 9 | The porter stops a couple of paces on and says , ‘ Paul . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whilst welcoming the recommendation that the defence has an enforceable right of access to forensic material held by the prosecution , the Law Society is concerned and surprised that it is not proposed that this will extend to unused material generally . |
| 13 | The defence needs a bit of experience … |
| 14 | If they are not resident in the United Kingdom then they will be assessed only if the income has a UK source . |
| 15 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 16 | The tent has a very large extended bellend which has plenty of room for cooking and storing equipment . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To answer the understandable need to touch and be involved with animals , the park has a Children 's Farmyard . |
| 21 | The park has a small number of wild rabbits , but Mr Weston said these were certainly not from that population . |
| 22 | ‘ The addition creates a new strength for us in American nineteenth-century genre painting ’ , says Ms Neill . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | The bore has an evil reputation , whether deserved or not , and perhaps because of its lonely location the emotive nature of a one-and-a-half-mile hole through a hill . |
| 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 . |