Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , a crisis had arisen about the University Ballet 's plans for a trip later the year to Johannesburg . |
| 3 | For example , if a stepping motor is used to drive the carriage of a teletype then the system must come to rest for the printing of each letter . |
| 4 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 5 | If a process is distributed across a number of elements of a system then the situation is much more complex . |
| 6 | Charming lounge bar in a house once the home of Christopher North . |
| 7 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 8 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 9 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 10 | By considering different facets of a company simultaneously the model is able to synthesise these to give a clear message , even if the individual ratios are giving contradictory signals . |
| 11 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 12 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 13 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 14 | If 2342 scan lines from the MSS are placed together like the rows of a matrix then the distance from the first to the last scan line is just about 185 km . |
| 15 | If the individual is in fact acting on behalf of the company as an employee then the principle of vicarious liability would mean that the company ( as potentially the wealthier party ) might make a more attractive defendant from the plaintiff 's point of view . |
| 16 | Since there is an intelligent system at work in each person it follows that if discomfort or dysfunction is necessary in order to maintain harmony within the system as a whole then the disease will manifest in the least important parts possible thus preserving the higher functions of the person for as long as possible . |
| 17 | Some items were common : several people had copies of the 1946 agreement between shaikhs , and its grandiose pretensions to a territory nearly the size of France . |
| 18 | Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , who had recently received fresh assurances of continued Western assistance for Iraqi Kurds [ see p. 38361 ] , had reportedly insisted on a more ambitious scheme involving autonomy for an area twice the size held by Kurdish guerrillas , incorporating the city of Kirkuk , and a clearer commitment by the government to hold democratic elections . |
| 19 | There were no cries — no spitting of a cat , no squealing of a rabbit only the crackling of twigs and the tearing of the grass in violence . |
| 20 | Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play . |
| 21 | After fornication with a woman then the one who would join would show his love of the Unholy by taking a child and killing it . |
| 22 | 3.3 Time restrictions If there is no mention of a time restriction in a covenant then the courts will normally infer that it is intended that the restriction should last forever . |