Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later on the manager decided that , in recognition of the outstanding and unsung work that embalmers do , he had overcharged them and sent the porter upstairs with a £5 refund for them . |
| 2 | ( With field coding , the interviewer asks an open question but codes the response immediately from a checklist not shown to the respondent . ) |
| 3 | His first sketches of the Garratt articulated locomotive show that he appreciated the advantages of mounting the boiler centrally between a pair of driving bogies carrying the fuel and water tanks . |
| 4 | The Soviet Defence Minister , Dmitri Yazov , visits the Pentagon today for a meeting with the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney . |
| 5 | The five Home Secretary nominees with the support even of a minority of say three of the councillors will almost certainly be able to elect the Chairman of the authority who will then have in addition to his deliberatory vote a casting vote . |
| 6 | ONE OF Britain 's most powerful and modern locomotives was named The Scotsman yesterday at a ceremony in Edinburgh 's Waverley Station . |
| 7 | These are only used when you can sail the board competently in a Force 4 . |
| 8 | Provided that at a meeting of a licensing board the chairman shall not have a second or casting vote on an application for the grant or provisional grant of a new licence , and such an application shall be granted by the board only by a majority of the members thereof present and voting . |
| 9 | Parking is expensive and troublesome ; It is much better to put the money away for a taxi there and back , if you can . |
| 10 | Smiling , Aunt Margaret put the money away in a drawer which was the till . |
| 11 | He knew that Coy was an administrator , that he had never been in the field either as a soldier or as an agent . |
| 12 | You might consider getting a local electrician or TV repair man to take a look at these before sending the computer away for a specialist repair shop 's attention . |
| 13 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 14 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 15 | Seeing the Chairman tonight at a function . ’ |
| 16 | But as this has very seldom , if at all , been the ground of the decision even in a court of the first instance , and certainly never been the ground of a decision in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , still less in this House , I did think it open in your Lordships ' House to reconsider this question . |
| 17 | Councillors reached the decision yesterday at a meeting of the policy and resources committee . |
| 18 | He rubbed the base of the cartridge gently with a piece of tissue . |
| 19 | Score the sardines diagonally with a knife two or three times . |
| 20 | This can be a particular problem if you run the cable sharply around a corner — you should always use gentle radius bends . |
| 21 | He gave me one , and I folded the cheque carefully into a spill and lit the cigarette with the flame I had obtained from the gas-fire . |
| 22 | " When it was done She expressed Her complete satisfaction with the statue both as a portrait and as a work of art , — I particularly asked the Bishop about that last point . |
| 23 | The American will appear before members of the disciplinary committee at Portman Square , having broken the rules twice in a day at Goodwood last Thursday . |
| 24 | I was gon na ask him , do you actually eat the products still to a limit ? |
| 25 | And hence the calls now for a DG to strengthen the Institute 's lobbying to defend members against any further regulatory encroachments . |
| 26 | A dedication to Cautes indicates the presence somewhere of a Mithraeum . |
| 27 | We are running down the side of the building now towards a stack of fat sacks , the perfect place to dispose of what the thieves do n't want . |
| 28 | The printing history of The Fairy Queen is described below in our bibliographical addendum , so as not to interrupt the story here with a page of rather convoluted formulae . |
| 29 | Other studies have used a series of slides making up the story instead of a film . |
| 30 | In the Eurocopy case , the plaintiff and the defendants were the purchaser and the warrantors respectively in a share sale and purchase agreement . |