Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicant can lodge with the board either a full plan of the premises in accordance with 5.10 ( subs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They went to the cinema twice a week . ’ |
| 4 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 5 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 6 | In the other case , where a wife killed her husband , there was widespread coverage when a judge decided not to jail a 25-year-old civil servant who had shot her husband through the heart just a week after their marriage . |
| 7 | If we went out in the morning it was raining and fine in the afternoon , and then it rained when we went out in the afternoon after a fine morning . |
| 8 | Paul Eastwood added his third goal of the afternoon before a Hampson try , beautifully laid on by Shaun Edwards four minutes from time , gave Wigan hopes of a last-ditch escape route . |
| 9 | Many alpinists reconnoitre their approach to a mountain on the afternoon before a climb , and this good practice should apply equally to the descent route . |
| 10 | Victorian , of course , but if you spend sixty-four years on the throne then a lot of building styles are going to be named after you . |
| 11 | Though open opposition , as the ‘ White Rose ’ showed , was futile against the might of the Gestapo and resistance groups were necessarily compelled to continue their work in secrecy and isolation , their hostility to the Nazi regime was now far less out of touch with the climate of opinion than had been the case even a few months earlier , before Stalingrad . |
| 12 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 13 | The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents . |
| 14 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 15 | If this is not the case then an error will be reported . |
| 16 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 17 | So I work on down the lambing quite a few times . |
| 18 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With a rich and such an early song it sings ’ when ‘ sallow catkins once all downy white/ turn like the sunshine into golden light … yet on the hawthorn scarce a leaf appears . ’ |
| 20 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 21 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 23 | But higher education should be a more exploratory affair and the university more a community of scholars . ’ |
| 24 | Although the election of Avitus is the last Auvergnat election covered by Gregory , two saints ' Lives allow us to take up the story again a century later . |
| 25 | Like the ‘ pop ’ version of innate aggression , there is in the West today a similar ‘ pop ’ version of the necessity for catharsis . |
| 26 | The weighting just a bit too erm |
| 27 | If you should find the cottage more a liability than you had envisaged then we can perhaps talk business in the future . |
| 28 | After all , though the gains were impressive , the market is back only to where it was before the Budget exactly a month earlier . |
| 29 | They sing the chorus together a second time . |
| 30 | As they move the stick forwards a small amount , causing only the slightest reduction in ‘ g ’ , their response to the resulting sensation is almost always to move even further forwards , making the sensation worse . |