Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a base configuration the developer Station includes three Intel Corp 486DX 66MHz CPUs , 16Mb to 256Mb memory , 400Mb disk , CD-ROM and a selection of ports . |
| 2 | John got the ticket in a bucket shop the day after he came back from China . |
| 3 | Pruning a beech hedge the easy way |
| 4 | ‘ It was like a Whitehall farce the way that money was passed around when they got it . ’ |
| 5 | As a parting gift the Keraing had given me a scale model of the prahu we were sailing in , which I had lashed to the hull walls facing backwards . |
| 6 | Ripa di Meana demanded that the EC Commission take unilateral action to resolve the siting issue , " because every day 's delay in the taking of a decision delays the start of the Agency 's work by another day " . |
| 7 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |
| 8 | If , for example , a firm were to amend its sales budget half-way through a budget period the personnel responsible for production need to know this amended sales budget so they can plan and make provisions to ensure the products are available for sale . |
| 9 | Even when the government runs a budget surplus the Bank of England will still have to manage the national debt ( the accumulated borrowing from the past ) . |
| 10 | From a functionalist perspective the Committee 's value was , first , as a pressure-release valve and , secondly , that it ‘ disposed once and for all of this conspiratorial theory of executive power ’ . |
| 11 | In the rarer case of a midsole failures the shoe often feels like a flat tyre , losing its bounce and becoming harder . |
| 12 | For a university undergraduate the research may be a dissertation , which is the student 's first attempt at a piece of individual research . |
| 13 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 14 | Got brought a pushbike wheel the other day . |
| 15 | Méndez had suffered a heart attack the previous month but , although he was reportedly advised by his doctors to avoid pressure , he had been mentioned as a possible leader of the government delegation in resumed peace talks with the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) guerrilla leaders in Mexico in late April [ see p. 38141 ] . |
| 16 | Bob Nichols , the chap you 're here to replace , had a heart attack the day before we docked . ’ |
| 17 | This process is trivial for a native speaker of a language , however for a computer system the solution is more difficult . |
| 18 | A designer need only draw on a computer screen the letter forms that he likes and the machine will convert them automatically into Bézier curves . |
| 19 | What a field day the train spotters had ! |
| 20 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 21 | In Brinkibon Ltd. v. Stahag Stahl ( 1982 H.L. ) the House of Lords confirmed the decision in Entores v. Miles Far East Company , that normally in the case of a telephone conversation or a telex communication the postal exception does not apply and therefore the acceptance takes effect when ( and where ) it is actually communicated to the offeror . |
| 22 | Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument . |
| 23 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 24 | PC World is also about to introduce low-cost training at its Croydon superstore surely a great boon to anyone who has spent days getting to grips with a user manual the size of a telephone directory ! |
| 25 | On a Friday night the street fills with the cross-section of society that inhabits this cultural mix . |
| 26 | At 9.30 on a Friday morning the players would arrive at the ground for training , then at mid-day would congregate in the manager 's office to discuss the next day 's match , as well as analysing the previous week 's . |
| 27 | I heard a fuzz guitar the other night — who was playing it ? |
| 28 | Straight ahead and aiming at a silver moon the tarmac is a dark rich salmon colour , burnt orangey in places and patched with indigo . |
| 29 | Villagers are angry over a proposed deal which would give owners of a gravel pit the right to build thirty houses . |
| 30 | If the injuries would only have been lessened by wearing a seat belt the damages may be reduced by 15 per cent . |