Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a university subject of the candidate 's choice has not been allocated a quota award , it may be possible for the Head of Department to nominate the candidate for an appeals award . |
| 2 | Most of the currently available home computers are equipped with cursor controls ; the screen cursor can be moved around a program listing or a text document to the point where changes are needed . |
| 3 | Statements and documents filed at court are confidential and may not be disclosed to anyone other than the parties , their legal representatives , the guardian ad litem , the Legal Aid Board or a welfare officer without the leave of the court ( FPCR , r23(1) ; FPR , r4.23(1) ) . |
| 4 | It is easy , too , to waste money unless you have either a musician or a music expert in the agency team . |
| 5 | The presence of oxygen , not usually cited as the cause of a fire , is put forward as having caused a fire in a laboratory or a space satellite for the reason that oxygen is usually and by intention excluded from some apparatus or chamber . |
| 6 | Group membership includes all those attending a Medau class in a residential home or a Day Centre for the elderly or disabled . |
| 7 | Intending participants were asked to provide either an extended abstract or a position paper for the workshop , and a number of these were selected for presentation . |
| 8 | Take a camel ride up the slopes or a coach tour around the summit . |
| 9 | Constance was born in the area and remembers when it was still possible to buy a mop or a washing-up bowl in the local shops . |
| 10 | The primary right is to prevent any unauthorised ‘ reproduction ’ , but this right extends not just to restricting an exact duplication or a pirate copy of the particular work , but to any reproduction , in any form , such as book illustrations , catalogue reproductions and even representations in another medium such as a photograph of a sculpture . |
| 11 | As for burial in a churchyard or a church service for the dead person , the position is again a very complicated one . |
| 12 | The problem is believed to be either an Achilles tendon strain or a stress fracture of the right foot . |
| 13 | This may be the case where there has been a separation order , a decree nisi for divorce , a non-molestation order , or a separation agreement between the parties . |
| 14 | This would correspond to a named award in a combined studies degree or a tripos award in the Oxbridge sense . |
| 15 | For children between 1 and 4 years old , an appropriate child seat , or a booster cushion with the adult seat belt , must be used . |
| 16 | Other ideas are the rapidly developing Llangollen Railway , Telford or Ironbridge , or a steam trip on the Cambrian , if , as rumoured , BR runs these again this year . |
| 17 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 18 | And ensure you have the right tools for the job — a long-handled back-brush or loofah for the bath , or a massage strap in the shower . |
| 19 | It is a moot point whether TGAT 's ‘ rough speculation ’ should be seen as an empirical prediction , or a design criterion for the system . |
| 20 | The doors between end vestibules and saloons are now controlled by push buttons instead of floor sensors , but how do you press the button if both hands are carrying luggage or a tray meal from the buffet ? |
| 21 | I suppose she had sent booties or a matinee jacket on the occasion of his birth , and sent him her love on the Christmas cards , but she did n't want to know what he was doing now . |
| 22 | A key or a lifeless deed or a cheap Roberts reproduction , perhaps a family snapshot or a tourist postcard of the 1930s , is the nearest that many Palestinian exiles can move in spirit towards the place they regard as their homeland . |
| 23 | They consist usually of a ratio between the length of the coast and some other feature , such as the total land area or a line tangent to the headlands of the coast . |
| 24 | But you have to develop an eye for spotting possibilities ; a kind of ‘ picture eye ’ which sees a winter sky in the grain marking on one particular piece of veneer or a rock formation in the figure on another . |
| 25 | A market-maker is connected with an offeror or a target company in the same way as a connected fund manager . |
| 26 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 27 | We could not accept a treaty that contained either a commitment at the beginning to a federal vocation or a review clause at the end — this is the question I have just answered — which implied or stated that the result of the review must be a movement towards federalism . |
| 28 | The answer here is to use some kind of plumber 's snake — a length of flat or helically-wound spring steel with a brass knob or a steel spring on the end which can be inserted into the waste pipe and rotated . |
| 29 | ‘ You can trust Jim ’ , was Labour 's appeal , reminiscent of a friendly village bobby or a family doctor of the old school . |
| 30 | If your Valentine date looks set to be a jog in the park , a game of squash or a cycle ride in the country , then this give-away is definitely for your action man . |