Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 2 | A recession brought on by the disruption of war and revolution lasted into 1908 but thereafter swift industrial growth coincided with a series of generally good harvests . |
| 3 | It 's a bit blocked up at the moment but yeah it would |
| 4 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 5 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
| 6 | I 'm just a bit pissed off with the way the wallpaper 's hanging ! |
| 7 | That 's when the jokes about the missing bit started , for ring doughnuts look just like traditional ones with a bit taken out of the middle . |
| 8 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
| 9 | The extreme anti Jewish sentiments expressed in letters from soldiers at the Front , though evidently a small minority of the overall services ’ mail , also sometimes included direct references to Hitler 's stance on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , interpreting the war in classical Nazi fashion as a struggle brought about by the Jews and destined to end in their destruction . |
| 10 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 11 | However , in mid-February an Interior Ministry spokesman insisted that the idea that Markov had been assassinated by the Bulgarian security service was a fiction put about by the British press , and he accused the Sunday Times of having invented the umbrella scenario after British agents had planted the poisoned pellet on Markov 's body . |
| 12 | I think that normally there is a cheque sent through with the notification , which we put in against the COUP 's fees code , but there is n't one this time . |
| 13 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 14 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
| 15 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 16 | It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’ |
| 17 | Although the wall was originally orange , a brown shadow in the shape of a fan stretched up to the ceiling above the frying pans on the hob . |
| 18 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 19 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 20 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 21 | This was a figure plucked out of the air by the Commission who know that the scale of fraud is not adequately monitored . |
| 22 | Pouf , man , you 've let yourself be scared by a figure plucked out of the clouds . |
| 23 | ‘ Christ , look out ! ’ shouted Pearce as a figure blundered out of the elevator . |
| 24 | This is n't just a figure drawn out of the air unlike councillor , I can actually back it up because I 've got the detail of that budget . |
| 25 | This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable . |
| 26 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 27 | This chapter ends with a description of a study carried out into the origin , evolution , spellings and meaning of an individual surname . |
| 28 | A study carried out at the University of California in Berkeley compared woman who maintained 20 per cent weight loss over two years with dieters who relapsed . |
| 29 | A notable exception to this consensus in the early literature that madness and creativeness are frequently connected is a study carried out at the beginning of the century by Havelock Ellis . |
| 30 | A study carried out at the Army Personnel Research Establishment ( APRE ) in Farnborough simulated wartime conditions for ten soldiers , who were required to defend a position during a tactical exercise lasting ten days . |