Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking Primary Schools as a whole the curriculum is probably wide enough to serve curriculum needs … |
| 2 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 3 | Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict . |
| 4 | Red and white currants here in rows , berries like glass beads , gooseberries with a ripeness the colour of rust on their green cheeks . |
| 5 | Are soaps in a sense the subconscious of patriarchy — where patriarchy is reflecting on itself via these various problematic issues which are unresolvable within the terms that patriarchy sets ? |
| 6 | Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship . |
| 7 | How many calories in a Jack The Ripper ? |
| 8 | lists in an appendix the prospective purchasers , if any , already identified in each participating member 's country |
| 9 | While the text may be mere words on a page the discourse takes on a deeper and more determinative role . |
| 10 | The forward tilt is admirable but these chairs have a disadvantage : by placing the knees on a pad the feet , with their receptors , are prevented from being placed flat on the floor . |
| 11 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 12 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 13 | In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories . |
| 14 | In the accounts of a business the principal repayment would merely be a transfer of funds within the balance sheet from the owners to the creditors . |
| 15 | For n moles of a gas the equation is |
| 16 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 18 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |
| 19 | Under the hands and feet of an expert the organ can sound more rhythmical than many people imagine , although it does not usually match the rhythmic or percussive elements of a piano or modern keyboard . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Jowitt commenting at the trial of Ernest Coveley , accused of carrying out a series of robberies with a cucumber The escargot laying season is between June and September . |
| 21 | First of all , the more water-furrows in a field the more land is wasted ; secondly a field that is ploughed in narrow stetches that are ridged up slightly to assist the drainage is not the best seed-bed for a crop of corn , as the ridges are bound , to some degree , to cause an unequal ripening of the seed . |
| 22 | As in this simple mental experiment of the narrative ending , most experiments in literary studies involve taking related versions of a text and seeing what effects on a reader the differences between them have . |
| 23 | He had ‘ no tie — so rude at a formal party like this , heavy dun trousers of a fashion the French might call ‘ eclat merdeaux ’ , smeared with darkening souvenirs of food and drink bound by a belt from the corpse of a dead guardsman . |
| 24 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 25 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 26 | It then eats dry instead of green grass if that is a necessity and when snow covers the landscape for many days at a time the rabbit has its own solution . |
| 27 | In Rachel Webb 's case this meant losing the right to see her daughter , ’ The judge said I gave up my rights as a parent the day I had my operation ’ . |
| 28 | The European past , with its record of interaction between conflicting civilizations , religions , and cultures , lacked the unity and ‘ all-embracing certainty ’ of the Chinese and so presented historical problems of a kind the latter never encountered . |
| 29 | As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important . |
| 30 | Iris stepped forward , saw , and turned away in horror , her eyes like black holes in a face the colour of bleached bones . |