Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He commenced by dealing with the importance of Shrewsbury as a trial centre and the value to rural communities of the branch lines , until the latter largely suffered closure due to competition from road transport . |
| 2 | The Royal Commission on Legal Services considered a suitors ’ fund which would indemnify litigants against the additional costs resulting from a successful appeal , the death or illness of a trial judge and the determination of an unsettled point of law of public importance . |
| 3 | Just above it is a block of plastic which combines a Euro-style power socket , a fuse carrier and the main power switch — which should be easy to find in the dark , as it 's directly above the mains lead . |
| 4 | ‘ In a cable factory and the mines . ’ |
| 5 | In this chapter , Leapor 's work will be considered against the background of her economic circumstances as a kitchen maid and the daughter of an agricultural craftsman . |
| 6 | Yeah , what about the fucking night that we did two and a bit hours and the other little bits and pieces that we 've been fucking doing it , |
| 7 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
| 8 | Applications in writing , enclosing a curriculum vitae and the names of two referees , should be addressed to the administrator , Brewing Research Foundation , Lyttel Hall , Nutfield , Redhill , Surrey RH HY . |
| 9 | Applicants for the postdoctoral post should send a curriculum vitae and the names of two referees to Dr D. J. Wingham , Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering , University College London WC1E 7JE . |
| 10 | Applications , stating the reasons why a grant is requested and giving a curriculum vitae and the names of two academic referees , must reach the Principal by 31 January 1992 . |
| 11 | ‘ There was a guy at school who had a 12-string guitar and the sound just blew my mind , and so I got one . |
| 12 | One of these sites was a teaching hospital and the remaining eleven sites were a mixture of large and small district general hospitals . |
| 13 | When Mum can relax in a deck chair and the children can enjoy making sand pipes and castles or having a donkey ride . |
| 14 | Now it 's a university city and the main centre of the Moselle wine trade . |
| 15 | I his is the sort of individual who is eventually invited to become a board master and the system engenders a wonderful sense of anticipation , as you progress up the board towards the prime positions ; when you are going to have your special day , on your favourite loch . |
| 16 | Whether an obviously biased intervention by a board member and the introduction of new material by an objector , which had not been previously intimated to the applicant amounted to breaches of natural justice was considered in Tennent Caledonian Breweries Ltd. v. City of Aberdeen District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 2 . |
| 17 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 18 | Otherwise if , say , £1 million was deposited in a building society and the building society then deposited the £1 million in a bank , it would count as £2 million — a clear case of double counting . |
| 19 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 20 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 21 | And , like all Jandel products , SigmaPlot 4.0 come with a moneyback guarantee and the full technical support of jandel 's experts . |
| 22 | For example , if a supplier has agreed to deliver a computer system and the contract states that the terminals are to be a deep yellow colour but , instead , he delivers a computer with lemon coloured terminals , this will amount to a breach of warranty unless there is some special reason why the deep yellow colour was specified . |
| 23 | A particular excavated level ( corresponding , for example , to a bronze Age occupation floor ) can be ‘ modelled ’ on a computer screen and the power of coordinate geometry embodied in a sophisticated computer program allows us to view it from any angle and at any elevation . |
| 24 | If they are right , Third World default could one day lead to a banking collapse and the loss of all our savings . |
| 25 | In the 1830s the advent of steam power focused attention on the possibilities of a rail tunnel and the engineer Aime Thome de Gamond spent most of his working life producing a variety of cross-Channel schemes including a single bore tunnel with two railway tracks and an interchange station for shipping on the mid-Channel bank . |
| 26 | The only difference between the significance of a tide chart and the significance of a railway timetable is that a railway timetable can be altered , is n't it ? |
| 27 | I 've got two back doors , there 's a storm porch and the door to the house and they 're both locked and bolted . |
| 28 | The walls were papered in a Regency stripe and the one or two pieces of upholstered furniture looked like genuine antiques . |
| 29 | Papinian is discussing whether , if a non-heir builds a monument , this can be regarded as a negotium gestum and the costs charged to the heir . |
| 30 | What should I use to seal the joint between a carport roof and the house wall ? |