Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 2 | This would be the case where an R&D programme and its objective are clearly defined and each of the parties is given the opportunity of exploiting any of the results that are of interest to it , or where the results are used solely for the purposes of further research . |
| 3 | This will be the case where an offer is made by one side which during the visit is accepted by the other . |
| 4 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 5 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 6 | If this is not the case then an error will be reported . |
| 7 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 8 | Its distinguishing characteristics are first the view that a class is partly constituted by the perceptions of its members , and second the belief , held either tacitly or openly , that the passage of history is marked by the growth of class consciousness , until a point in the future when an enlightened proletariat will be able to grasp its real interests and make its own history . |
| 9 | That 's when you thrust the ring back an to the dead woman 's finger . ’ |
| 10 | One source gave a graphic description of an 1850s party in the club where an attempt was made to emulate some of the wickeder deeds of the Hell-Fire Club , black masses and all . |
| 11 | Spreading : The name given to the effect whereby an increase in exposure causes a subject to be seen as larger . |
| 12 | I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two . |
| 13 | The shaikh Abdulrahman bu Riziq represented the rejectionist horn : he lived in the desert where an Italian policeman had been murdered , and took sardonic comfort from the reminder . |
| 14 | It can help to speed up the work where an investigation involves the results from several different cases . |
| 15 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 16 | By s 45 of the Act where an action or matter is transferred from the High Court to a county court , and no order to the contrary has been made in the High Court , the costs of the proceedings prior thereto are in the discretion of the county court judge , and will be taxed in the county court upon such scale , whether of the High Court or county court , as the judge thinks just ( a statement to the contrary can be found on p 868 of the County Court Practice , 1991 but this has been adjudged incorrect : Forey v London Buses Ltd ( 1991 ) 2 All ER 936 ) . |
| 17 | Within seven minutes Portadown were ahead with an Ian Brown drop goal before Malone seized the initiative with two tries in a 15 minute spell — McAllister with Wilkinson converting and John McDonald adding the second before an Ian Brown penalty left Portadown six points in arrears at the interval 12–6 . |
| 18 | Such looking becomes the process whereby an object of experience is formed out of indeterminate data , first into figure against ground and then into other elements of an image . |
| 19 | Oxidation is the process whereby an atom or ion loses an electron and thus acquires an increase in its positive charge or decrease in its negative charge . |
| 20 | ‘ If the Universe is the sort where an astronaut can do a round trip in a straight line , it has no edge or boundary ( like the balloon for the two-dimensional beetles ) . |
| 21 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 22 | At the time of the war already an experienced journalist in his forties , Behr reported on Vietnam for Newsweek between 1967 and 1971 . |
| 23 | The arrival at the point where an hypothetical statement has to be accepted as fact in order to support efforts to rationalise a proposition , in this case a religion , is inevitable . |
| 24 | The first six steps of Part 3 , Objective 1 , have been completed , up to the point where an intervention programme has been written . |
| 25 | it is the place where an individual reproduces his material and intellectual existence . |
| 26 | What we are seeking is a snapshot of the behaviour not an exhaustive record , although , since the method needs to be replicable some standards for recording must be set . |
| 27 | ‘ Our coach was caught in the centre of an enormous traffic jam , and it looked as if we would be lucky to get to the station only an hour or so behind schedule . |
| 28 | On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs . |
| 29 | Apprentices do not wake up in strange beds the night before an important ride and then tell all to the boss 's wife . |
| 30 | In fact it can well be argued that basically there are only two concepts — rocks and time — with the rest just an obfuscation of the nomenclature . |