Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His caravan site is a quarter of a mile up the valley from his house at a place called Miller 's Bottom — here , it 's marked . |
| 7 | This was the unplanned beginning of a process whereby the Liberal government gradually withdrew provision for deserving groups from the Poor Law , at no cost to the Exchequer and as little as possible to local rates . |
| 8 | The process of achievement of a state where the self is receptive to the love of God is that of a balancing act . |
| 9 | Now this steady-state comparison is a good example of a case where the criticisms of the orthodox model are well taken . |
| 10 | There is a story in La Scala that a very good singer once opened the door of a room where the maestro was preparing a lady for a little love-making , and he never worked for Toscanini again . |
| 11 | The exact truth as to material fact ceases to be of importance in art — it is a student 's style — the style of a period when the mind is serene and unawakened to the tragical mysteries of life . ’ |
| 12 | The most important modification of the draft , agreed after several hours of reportedly heated debate , was the omission of a clause whereby the declaration would take immediate effect . |
| 13 | Dressed in the multicoloured jacket of his company ‘ team , ’ exhausted Daryn Swords said : ‘ I thought it was a hell of a day when the first rate rise came . |
| 14 | The Scots , in particular , got a hell of a lot out the Empire , proportionately the Scots had many more positions of influence and profit in the Empire than we did , and I think Scottish nationalism had it 's economic roots in the last twenty/thirty years from a realization that the Empire 's over , and that great outlet for Scottish energy , education and ambition was closed , therefore the Scots are shut up in the island as they used not to be . |
| 15 | 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 . |