Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) In an action for malicious falsehood the plaintiff has to prove malice as part of his cause of action ; this is not so in the case of defamation. ( 3 ) Damage is not presumed in the case of malicious falsehood as it is in libel . |
| 3 | Therefore , in performing within an institution in one category the manager may bear in mind his/her marketability in another area . |
| 4 | In an interview with French radio the following day he said that " we must not forget that this government has a lifespan which may be limited by the national sovereign conference " [ see below ] . |
| 5 | And apart from the peculiarities of the relationship with the German Democratic Republic , the structural problems of the West German State are in the main those common to most ( and less acute than in many ) advanced capitalist industrial societies of the present : problems of social equality and distribution of wealth , and of maintaining in an era of world-wide recession the economic growth so central to the legitimacy of post-war liberal democracies ; problems of the exploitation ( and often ruination ) of limited natural resources in the interests of the economy ; problems of national defence in a nuclear age ; and the corresponding problems of containing and absorbing often justified social and political protest without destroying civil liberties and undermining the very essence of the liberal democratic state . |
| 6 | After an interval of 54 years the World Federation of Hungarians held its third congress in Budapest on Aug. 19-21 . |
| 7 | And to lead the horse we need to go somewhere ; perhaps around the house , across the lawn , over the concrete path , under the clothesline with flapping socks , past the dogs , and in to an environment of strange things the horse has not seen before . |
| 8 | Once they reach an age of 4–5 years the goldfish will often start to lose their colouration and gradually become paler . |
| 9 | Pupils in opted-out schools are funded at an average of four time the level of LEA pupils . |
| 10 | The drive through the 40 junctions ( not including the practice section ) took an average of 40 minutes the shortest time being 34 minutes and the longest being 57 minutes . |
| 11 | To take from an island in blue ocean the six monsters — |
| 12 | If ever there was an example of counterproductive intelligence the CIA is it . |
| 13 | The situation is now so serious that an area of tropical rainforest the size of 6 football pitches is destroyed every minute of the day . |
| 14 | Within an area of special control the general rule is that no advertisement may be displayed ; such advertisements as are given express consent are considered as exceptions to this general rule . |
| 15 | By building up an army of individual shareholders the Conservatives may well have expected to gain political support . |
| 16 | Later the daffodils would muster , blazing like an army of yellow heads the length of the bank and right up to the steps leading to the old house . |
| 17 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) If on an application under this section the applicant lodges with the board , instead of the plan mentioned in paragraph ( b ) of subsection ( 1 ) above , a plan sufficient to identify the site of the premises , together with such description of the premises as will give a general indication of their proposed size and character ( with reference in particular to the sale of alcoholic liquor ) , then ( a ) the licensing board shall deal with the application as if made under subsection 1 ) above ; but ( b ) any provisional grant of a licence made on an application under this subsection shall become ineffective unless affirmed by the licensing board on application made to the board to that effect within 12 months of the provisional grant of the licence , any such application being accompanied by a plan of the premises . |
| 19 | Raising a hand to put an end to these blows the woman gave me a warm smile . |
| 20 | Gloucestershire clothiers in 1756 " laid the chain four or five yards longer on the bar " and stopped altogether an allowance of two shillings the price which they had been paying for " stopping " ( repairing ) the cloth . |
| 21 | Because of the recent declarations of independence by the majority of republics there were fears that without an agreement on economic union the economy would collapse . |
| 22 | ( 6 ) On upholding an appeal under this section the sheriff may : ( a ) remit the case with the reason for his decision to the licensing board for reconsideration of its decision ; or ( b ) reverse or modify the decision of the licensing board . |
| 23 | In an atmosphere of such buoyancy the dealers are obliged to cut margins and try to survive competition from the opportunists for whom the fax boom is simply the latest in a long line of nice little short-term earners , such as double-glazing and car phones . |
| 24 | If there is an objection at any stage the simplified procedure will stop . |
| 25 | For students who wish to combine the study of Sociology with an interest in other subjects the department offers a sizeable array of joint degrees . |
| 26 | Aunt Lilian was aware — more than Aunt Kit was aware , anyway — of what might be thought a young girl 's natural pre-occupations , and it was she who took me to buy clothes and lipsticks , asking the sales girls ' advice with a gentle humility that touches me now , because she was not humble by nature and thought an interest in personal adornment the mark of a trivial mind . |