Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 15 the Commissioner of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and Controller of the State of Emergency in the country 's North Solomons Province , Paul Tohian , was dismissed by the government following an attempted coup the previous night . |
| 2 | As an inhouse technique the best practice reviews are low cost , and the findings are readily acceptable since they derive from the way familiar colleagues in the same overall business carry out their tasks . |
| 3 | It was classified an historic monument the following year . |
| 4 | First , each donned sunglasses , jeans and a white laboratory coat and then walked through a colony of prairie dogs while an assistant tape-recorded the resulting alarm calls . |
| 5 | This quaint description is not a manifestation of that well-known British chauvinism and insularity , but refers to an odd habit the human animal has of inserting bits and pieces of various shapes and sizes into different holes and orifices . |
| 6 | In Yemen an official statement on Jan. 17 said that " the military action aimed basically at destroying fraternal Iraq " was " a flagrant challenge to the declared will of the world " ; the Guardian reported that an estimated 100,000 people carrying pro-Iraqi banners attended an anti-US rally the same day in the capital , Sana'a . |
| 7 | Is an economic pay-off the only measure of success ? |
| 8 | This is because other dealings as principal with the firm may technically not be investment business by the counterparty ; because the firm is an authorised person the own account exemption in para 17 of Sched 1 would normally apply . |
| 9 | When he was an old man the younger generation might clamour for it . |
| 10 | Boswell that even in the absence of an express undertaking the implied undertaking against using information for an improper or collateral purpose could be relied upon to the same effect . |
| 11 | If your program needs to find an empty string the first time it is used , you can subsequently assign a null string to it . |
| 12 | Watched an interesting programme the other night on Q E D er , it was to do with people who have hare lips and cleft palates |
| 13 | In these situations they are able to contribute information and guidance regarding the problems that pupils have with visual activities and to consider on an individual basis the compounding effect that these may have in terms of the other disabilities from which the child may suffer . |
| 14 | The goal is a state in which the set of properties common to all arches includes the assertions : there are two columns there is an extra block the extra block rests on both columns and the other set of properties contains the assertion : the two columns touch . |
| 15 | Then in an appropriate case the public authority may be able to secure the institution of a prosecution for criminal libel . |
| 16 | so , having an early start the following morning , we 're going to be at er Lane Head for half nine so go and see Martin , tt |
| 17 | He had an early appointment the next day . |
| 18 | From an early stage the Soviet Union has tried to exploit Latin American dependence on imported oil . |
| 19 | The merger with Brewin Dolphin , already one of the largest private client stockbrokers in the UK and from an early stage the preferred suitor , ensures both with Bell Lawrie and shareholders owning 25 per cent of the enlarged group . |
| 20 | Both sides noted at an official ceremony the following day that the transfer of JNA troops , facilities and equipment had proceeded without serious incident . |
| 21 | In an unprecedented move the Prime Minister , Edith Cresson , on Jan. 18 filed a defamation suit on behalf of the government against Jean-Marie Le Pen , the leader of the far-right National Front , for calling her government " a bunch of thieves , racketeers and gangsters " . |
| 22 | Our Canadian business , which underwent an organisational restructuring the previous year , was able to benefit in 1992 and both drystone and coated tonnages were significantly higher enabling the business to offset price weakness in the marketplace and exceed its budget . |
| 23 | Hildreth states that , " As an interactive system the online catalog can dynamically communicate with its user ; it can be responsive and informative at a given time to a given need " all of which was not possible in previous catalogues . |
| 24 | Hamish unearthed an undeveloped film the other day , which included photos of Malta taken in 1989 . |
| 25 | As an exploratory survey the primary aim of the project was to collect current data on in-service training , and Chapters 2 and 3 provide an account of the information collected , indicating that within apparently general theoretical commitment to in-service training , the actual practice of training shows a very wide range within every parameter examined . |
| 26 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 27 | What an extraordinary performance the hon. Member for Dewsbury ( Mrs. Taylor ) gave . |
| 28 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 29 | For example , if a new part is made from an existing part the new part 's attribute refers to this original design and only the alterations need be stored as the new drawing file . |
| 30 | When you are looking for insurance cover or considering the renewal of an existing policy the first thing you should consider is who to insure through . |