Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from arriving at Exeter College , Oxford , in April 1944 as a grateful Jude the Obscure , he roared into the University apparently ready for anybody . |
| 2 | If you give a deaf person the score of a piece by Bach or Mozart , he can learn to see the composition of themes and their recurrence but not why this is so marvellous because he can not feel it . |
| 3 | The railway slopes uphill when its VP or vanishing point is moved above eye level ; for a downhill slope the VP falls below eye level , EL . |
| 4 | Because Burma is not a rich country the potential for racketeering is limited , and shrugged off , For those Burmese who want one foot in the material world , at least so far as the occasional bottle of Scotch is concerned , the black market exists . |
| 5 | For a two-child family the increases we are making will , by April 1992 , have raised the total value of Child Benefit by almost £3 in a single year , to £17.45 a week . |
| 6 | His clothes were delivered , a haughty sniff the woman 's only protest . |
| 7 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 8 | If the calculated starting rate does coincide with a resonant rate the designer can either elect to use a lower frequency clock or try to reduce the resonance with additional damping . |
| 9 | With a shy smile the elderly Bolivian lady , prompting him , said ‘ Shamanism ? ’ |
| 10 | At Lausanne , the Ramallah Congress delegation discovered that without a representative government the refugee community had no standing , except as the subject of the deliberations . |
| 11 | that 's a lazy language the Suffolk dialect in n it ? |
| 12 | At a seated dinner the speakers are usually at the top table and the microphone is nearby and can be handed to each speaker . |
| 13 | As a one-way passage the model clearly does not square with the repeated movements between verse and prose that we find in Shakespeare . |
| 14 | By the time I reached Tintern I could go in straight lines easily and had a right wrist the size of a tennis ball that was painful to touch and crackled ominously when I flexed it . |
| 15 | Travelling in a clockwise direction the route proceeds from Cat Nab , Saltburn along part of the Cleveland Way and along the cliff edge down to the beach at Cattersty Sands . |
| 16 | For a private customer the borrowing must also be " suitable " for him . |
| 17 | By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment . |
| 18 | He preferred to count what rugby had given him , as he remarked to his squad when the tourists handed out their thank-you presents at a private party the morning after the Second Test . |
| 19 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
| 20 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
| 21 | After a little practice the full statements may be omitted as the mnemonics will ensure that the data is transmitted in the correct sequence . |
| 22 | In a memorable analogy the black African nationalist ( and socialist ) leader Leopold Senghor had said that the French Union must not be built like a cage that no one would care to enter ; but in the Ho-Sainteny agreement the Vietminh were in effect being asked to take up the tenancy of a building that had not yet been constructed . |
| 23 | ( b ) If the death takes place after 12/11/74 and before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , any estate duty is to be claimed under the said Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) , but the duty is payable at CTT rates , any agricultural relief is given on full estate duty terms , there is no timber relief but taper relief can be claimed , and in the case of a surviving spouse the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , can apply ; and the persons accountable for the duty in terms of Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , can pay such as relates to qualifying property by instalments . |
| 24 | of a Spanish Peninsula the young eel is an alba plaice , Paul has not got five letters . |
| 25 | If you have a solid structure the blast hits it full on and moves the structure . ’ |
| 26 | At the beginning of a drug-induced hallucination the subject often sees simple , coloured , geometric patterns . |
| 27 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 28 | It was in a literal sense the ‘ last resort ’ ( dernier ressort ) . |
| 29 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 30 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |