Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 2 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 3 | In yesterday 's games there were double sendings-off at Tranmere , where Aldo Monza of Cosenza and Neil McNab were shown the red card after an 80th minute bust-up , and West Ham , who had Matthew Rush dismissed along with Pisa 's Giovanni Fasce after a flare-up early in the second half . |
| 4 | The positive intervention by the military occurred after a meeting earlier in the month with United States Defence Department officials who warned the military against attempting to seek authoritarian solutions . |
| 5 | There is talk of a film later in the year and a couple of ‘ telly notions ’ are in the early stages of development . |
| 6 | Even the psyche , the temperament of a person finds expression in his speech , to say nothing of his temporary moods and every hearer makes a certain value judgement of a speaker simply on the basis of ‘ what he talks like ’ ( Pulgrum , 1951 , p. 17 ) . |
| 7 | The vines grow at a height of between 100 and 200 metres and produce dependable wines of a style somewhere between the well structured , fruity Hautvillers and Cumières and the classic but cavalier Aÿ . |
| 8 | Apart from these fragments , though , the site of the town and its immediate suburbs have scarcely produced sufficient evidence to support the idea of a fort here before the Flavian period , which , in view of the general military situation in the west Midlands at that time , would be unlikely . |
| 9 | It is much more common now to use the facilities provided by a package such as micro-OCP to generate a particular concordance entry on the screen of a PC directly from the text-base whenever it is needed . |
| 10 | As double finale , the thud of piercing impact followed a fraction of a second later by the blast of detonation … |
| 11 | Investigative journalism usually implies intensive and detailed study revealing the ‘ dark under-belly ’ of a subject already in the public domain or dragging a subject which has remained conveniently hidden from view into the public domain . |
| 12 | Having decided that the doctrine of automatic determination ( ie determination of a contract solely at the will of the party who was guilty of a wrongful repudiatory breach ) did not exist , even in employment contracts , Megarry V-C concluded that as the breach had not been accepted by the innocent party then the contract subsisted and therefore for the period which it had to run — circa four and a half years — the defendant was bound by its terms . |
| 13 | The villa with its ceremonial painted chamber , uncovered by chance a quarter of a century ago on the Marchese 's lands , had been walled up again . |
| 14 | And all are derived from one Pininfarina concept car — the Dino Berlinetta Speciale — which made its debut more than a quarter of a century ago at the 1965 Paris show . |
| 15 | the single motifs can be placed almost anywhere ; the centre-back of a jacket just above the hem , just above the cuffs on the sleeves , just below the shoulder seams on both sides of the jacket fronts or centre-back/centre-front of a skirt just above the hem . |
| 16 | It allows you to take advantage of fonts , lines , borders and shading and can therefore greatly enhance the appearance of a worksheet both on the screen and on paper . |
| 17 | if you question you might actually find that there 's some good thing or , or at least the people might find that there 's some good things in it so it 's then er it becomes more of a threat then to the capitalist world |
| 18 | On the second day of their slow ride up the river they found traces of Morthen , a snail-shell hair net , slung from the branch of a tree close to the cold remains of a fire . |
| 19 | does n't always go down too well but well in the end I went in to their bedroom and actually they were awake , they were just laying sort of a bit sleepily on the bed together on Katie 's , both on Katie 's bed . |
| 20 | Selection , he believed , required the expert knowledge of a man close to the players , but the idea of one England team manager was inconceivable even to Chapman . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you interested in recruiting the services of a man merely for the purpose of impregnation ? ’ |
| 22 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 23 | Their message had been that boats should stay at least a quarter of a mile away from the whales and that sonar should never be used . |
| 24 | Cos he lives about a quarter of a mile away from the school . |
| 25 | Before November 9 , the visitor to the derelict Potsdamer Platz , where no trams run on the ancient tramlines which now lead nowhere , could mount the viewing platform by the tourist kiosks on the western side and peer across the Grepo border guards ' free fire zone at the drab buildings a quarter of a mile away in the east . |
| 26 | A quarter of a mile further on the lane widened out into a small clearing in the trees . |
| 27 | Early in the afternoon , on the third day of walking without the wheelbarrow , four men appeared on the road a quarter of a mile further up the canyon . |
| 28 | A main feeder lava tunnel often branches towards the terminus of a flow rather like the distributaries of a river delta . |
| 29 | This places the responsibility for dangerous driving , damage , injury or death following from the taking of a vehicle squarely on the shoulders of those in it . |
| 30 | So come on and start making these ‘ Mickey Mouse ’ cups a bit of a spectacle instead of the atmosphere void of Windsor Park . |