Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Child 's Game is basically a free play situation where the child chooses any series of activities for 10–15 minutes during which the parent will join in under the child 's direction . |
| 2 | Prepare a computer schedule for a typical working day when the systems described in 5.2.5 are available to Oxford University Press . |
| 3 | IT 'S hardly Princess Diana 's idea of a jolly family Christmas when the royals get together at the Queen 's Sandringham estate . |
| 4 | ‘ Best be movin , ’ he said and they swung open the gate and set off at a jaunty pace back up the lane towards the main road . |
| 5 | The audience , sparse and sad , do not call for an encore , but Mo and McNamara embark upon a lonely farewell tune just the same . |
| 6 | the determinants of the profit margin of marketmakers in a secondary bond market ie. the determinants of the bid-ask price . |
| 7 | All of us get elated and emotional as we stroll through a pine grove on a hot summer day when the old trees fill the air with their pungent fragrance . |
| 8 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 9 | The colour is produced by imperfections and impurities in the diamond , for example , a yellow colour results when the diamond contains nitrogen atoms clustered together in equilateral triangles with each nitrogen atom replacing one carbon atom of the perfect diamond ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 10 | Its aim was to provide a convivial meeting place where the enlightened could help formulate a programme to teach the uninitiated the nature of the enemy which was undermining the country . |
| 11 | The following rights may be relevant to this computer system : Patent Being new , the computer may incorporate some new and patentable inventions Copyright The software on disk and the programs stored on the integrated circuits ( firmware ) and all accompanying documentation are protected under copyright law Semiconductor The topography of the integrated circuits Regulations containing the firmware Trade Marks The stylized name may be registered as a trade mark Registered Design The embossed pattern may be a registered design Design Right The new type of keyboard may fall within the scope of the new design right |
| 12 | A subtle nod of approval by the student was lost in the anticipation of an impending confrontation with a certain pilot Y. Then the student asked the wrong question . |
| 13 | At a recent consultation evening where the teachers met the parents , we had a 97 per cent turn-out . |
| 14 | And a couple of weeks ago I was at a chemical engineering company where the managing director told me that they were now using accountants for their safety experiments instead of rats . |
| 15 | Some hedgerow stops are often the beginnings of a new burrow system once the doe and her young move out . |
| 16 | Thanks to import restrictions , the new range wo n't help Mitsubishi sell any more than 1990 's record of 3700 Shoguns ( with the changeover , 3000 is this year 's likely figure ) but with a significant price rise likely the dealers will be happy . |
| 17 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 18 | The situations were : " White formal interview " ( i.e. a formal interview situation where the interviewer was white ) ; " Black formal interview " ( a formal interview situation where the interviewer was black ) ; " racially mixed informal conversation " , " Black peer group conversation " , " Black informal conversation with fieldworker " . |
| 19 | The situations were : " White formal interview " ( i.e. a formal interview situation where the interviewer was white ) ; " Black formal interview " ( a formal interview situation where the interviewer was black ) ; " racially mixed informal conversation " , " Black peer group conversation " , " Black informal conversation with fieldworker " . |
| 20 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 21 | The I 'm not an economic development officer so the er breadth of the perspective I have is limited from market experience rather than from a broader overview . |
| 22 | How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are . |
| 23 | ‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’ |