Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A testator who had instituted Sempronia and Maevia heirs to a tenth each of his estate and a foster-child to the remainder appointed a curator for his foster-child since he thought he could rightly do so . |
| 2 | In telephone conversations with BBC TV director Kevin Bishop , 43 , the prince requested a number of his own favourite acts and asked that the show should not , as is usual , overrun . |
| 3 | At one stage of his tour of the camp at Caister-on-Sea , the prince pinned a badge proclaiming ‘ Charlie Says Rave On ’ to his lapel , and seemed fascinated by the idea of all-night rave parties . |
| 4 | If , for example , the retailer required a supply of cards for Mother 's Day , they would be little use to him if they arrived afterwards . |
| 5 | This time the vet cut a V out of Biggles 's crippled leg bone and thought that might do the trick . |
| 6 | Clause 9A of the contract incorporated a restraint on competing activities during employment . |
| 7 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 8 | It was sufficient that the decision affected a person 's rights . |
| 9 | The expert agreed with the landlords , and the tenants applied to the court to have the decision declared a nullity . |
| 10 | Has the recession taken a toll on the ADAA ? |
| 11 | Also earlier this year the University formed a Managing Directors Club . |
| 12 | For example , last year alone , the University earned a total of four point nine million pounds from research grants and contracts , a figure which has risen despite the recession . |
| 13 | A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire . |
| 14 | Thus when the user input a search term , a class number would be retrieved . |
| 15 | With revenue set at $1,169,000 million , the budget projected a deficit of $351,000 million . |
| 16 | The discovery in 1958 that sodium uptake and glucose uptake are coupled at the luminal surface of the intestine marked a turning point in the oral administration of electrolyte solutions . |
| 17 | HAS THE CHEF GOT A PIG 'S HEAD ? |
| 18 | Atrium A large hall , lit by an opening in the centre of the roof called a compluvium . |
| 19 | Things have not gone right this year for the colt dubbed a new ‘ Champion the Wonder Horse ’ after his last-to-first victory in the Breeders ' Cup Juve-nile 10 months ago . |
| 20 | While Ramsey was a canon the chapter appointed a new vicar ; and while Ramsey 's predecessor was bishop , a minority of the parishioners started to protest against the vicar 's innovations and were in a strong position because the vicar introduced certain ornaments without the necessary faculty to do so . |
| 21 | The eruption of the volcano buried a town , Akrotiri , which is thought to have had a population originally of about 30,000 . |
| 22 | The disapproving mother was the reason the actress called a halt to her liaison with actor Mithun Chakraborty a couple of years ago . |
| 23 | Why is the card called a Grizzled Skipper ? |
| 24 | Another entrepreneur establishing a sack-making factory with limited protection , may find a relative of the president given a licence to import freely the same product . |
| 25 | But the President held a referendum and won convincing support from South Africa 's whites . |
| 26 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 27 | It was fairly clean and pleasant and there was a paved bit at one end where the trees from behind the fence cast a bit of shade . |
| 28 | Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients ? |
| 29 | As with the Kabbaras in Rome , Jafaar 's involvement in Polar Cap for the DEA masked a deeper CIA interest in hiding its role as an arms supplier to Iraq . |
| 30 | Bashing one of my peers in the ring released a kind of spring inside me . |