Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal way a ferret meeting a strange dog would become hostile , would hiss and spit . |
| 2 | In the normal way a fraternity held an annual social function , after its festival mass , to collect the stock which was forthwith paid over to the churchwardens , less any sum retained for guild purposes . |
| 3 | In March 1916 the Midland League programme was completed , and to fill the remaining weeks of what used to be the normal season a subsidiary tournament involving six clubs was organized , with Leeds City in the Northern Group of the Midland League . |
| 4 | He himself got landed with a boring little man from Luton , who was a great stalwart of the local amateur dramatic society there and clearly , though he did n't quite put it into words , thought The Hooded Owl a pale shadow of their recent production of When We Are Married . |
| 5 | From one left — hand set of shelves thin hardwood plates of wood scythe outwards at shoulder and shin height in front of the character ; from the right-hand side a single similar plate scythes outwards at the level of the base of the spine . |
| 6 | As they walked along the narrow fondamenta a black , steel-prowed gondola glided past . |
| 7 | Because these are short-term and rather non-specific behavioural changes , they must be regarded as forms of non-associative learning , but important to Kandel 's argument is that classical conditioning is also possible ; in this the unconditioned stimulus is a shock to the tail , and the conditioned stimulus a mild tactile stimulus to the siphon . |
| 8 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 9 | EVER since the new Booker shortlist failed to include some of this year 's most frenetically over-promoted stars ( thereby affording the rest of the authorial population a good smirk ) the media have been publicly soul-searching about hype . |
| 10 | It held that it was open to any aggrieved party to challenge before the European Court a decision by the Commission ordering production of documents which a party considers are privileged , and the Court has power to grant interim measures to prevent disclosure of those documents to the Commission until the dispute on privilege is resolved . |
| 11 | France would give the European Council a secretariat . |
| 12 | Inside the front cover of its annual report , the company prints an unusual request : ‘ Within the European Community a single market in commercial vehicles has been a reality for some time . |
| 13 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 14 | Why is increasing the monetary base a less reliable means of increasing the money supply than decreasing the monetary base is of decreasing the money supply ? |
| 15 | Fifty guaranteed seats once a week will give the advance bookings a most healthy look . |
| 16 | Some seven days before the due date a decision was taken by the National Transport Workers ' Federation not to take part . |
| 17 | At the low end a 17-inch monochrome ( 1152 x 900 ) goes for $2,600 , a 17-inch grey scale ( 1152 x 900 ) for $3,100 , a 14-inch colour ( 1024 x 768 ) for $3,100 and a 17-inch high-resolution colour ( 1280 x 1024 ) for $5,000 . |
| 18 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 19 | I decided to give the combined mode a try since I was using a fairly fast 386DX — it was still painfully slow so I reverted to separate modes . |
| 20 | In the indoor galleries a range of exhibitions and audio visual presentations provide background information about the lives and experiences of the thousands of other Ulster-American emigrants and the part they played in the birth and growth of the United States . |
| 21 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 22 | She looked the possible winner a furlong from home , but faded near the finish as the task of conceding so much weight told . |
| 23 | Who cares about the possible queue a week next putative Saturday at the Gatwick guichet ? |
| 24 | However the Velcro entrance to this compartment is only 3in long which can make stuffing back the bivvy bag a bit of an effort . |
| 25 | Poor dear Hugh 's face was somehow much less vivid than the tall hennins a married lady could wear , that gave her extra height . |
| 26 | Although granites are apparently less common than in the orthotectonic Caledonides a number of concealed granites have been indicated by gravity studies in the last twenty five years . |
| 27 | In the botanical gardens a huge tree had fallen and crushed a bus . |
| 28 | American diplomats were so appalled by Mr Zappala 's nomination that they leaked to the Spanish press a copy of the misnamed competence certificate , which is sent to the Senate , which has the final say on ambassadorial posts . |
| 29 | They have given the Spanish club a further two weeks to find the cash . |
| 30 | Sterling is even closer to its intervention level against the peseta than the escudo and market rumours of a lira devaluation mean that the Italians , the Portuguese and the Spanish pose a more immediate threat to the pound than the identity of the next British Chancellor . |