Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 2 | Hay fever is really an allergy to pollen and the peak time is early June . |
| 3 | The Tender can , of course , be made without an admission of liability and the sum offered may well be designed not merely to reflect the value of the claim on a full liability basis , but discounted to reflect the difficulties which the pursuer faces . |
| 4 | The water for washing had to be Pumped up from a well in the scullery every morning for half an hour before breakfast and the drinking water fetched daily in a bucket from a communal tap in the tiny village street . |
| 5 | This is presented in legislation as an opportunity for parents and the local community to run their own schools with funding direct from central government . |
| 6 | And there was also an opportunity for Aberdeen and the surrounding region to look to its future as it prepared to host the next Offshore Europe in 1995 . |
| 7 | Aims are to provide an opportunity for industry and the University to meet , and assess each other 's needs , and for industry to find out what we are doing . |
| 8 | The person ejected could then mount an action for battery and the defence of reasonable force to eject a trespasser would fail . |
| 9 | We did not find an association between smoking and the grade of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , and so our data do not support the hypothesis that cigarette smoke has a direct mutagenic effect on the cervical epithelium . |
| 10 | The focus on the child-rearing implications of women 's employment has led to such detailed considerations as the relation between the employment status of mothers and their children 's health , and the possibility of an association between employment and the nutritional adequacy of pre-school children 's diets . |
| 11 | The database for the project therefore has a very wide coverage , with the background work in class suggesting links with religion , slavery and the history an geography of India and the United States . |
| 12 | an appreciation of probability and the concept of the normal curve |
| 13 | An Old Firm game played on the Saturday before an international match is clearly not an aid to Roxburgh and the fact that it was the 34th match of a gruelling 44-game championship did not escape his attention , either . |
| 14 | He found their steady , rhythmic progress an aid to concentration and the oddly oblique views of the world they offered — weed-choked farmland at the feet of embankments , gnome-dotted gardens on the edges of towns — ran somehow parallel with his own . |
| 15 | The very unfamiliarity , now , of the language and concepts of Christianity makes it possible to present these anew both as a moral ideal and an attitude to humanity and the capacities of humanity . |
| 16 | Of course Noel is an expert in publicity and the use of the media . |
| 17 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 18 | Following a conference on the Tuareg rebellion in December [ see p. 38665 ] , members of the government and the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad , representing the Tuaregs , met on Jan. 22-24 in Algiers and agreed on a truce , an exchange of prisoners and the continuation of negotiations . |
| 19 | The embattled Arts Council sketches its own position in its newly published Draft National Arts and Media Strategy : ‘ We shall campaign for the arts funding system to remain as an intermediary between government and the arts ’ . |
| 20 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 21 | This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club . |
| 22 | The current world champion is an accountant from Ipswich and the year before , Durham University maths student Robert Fulford won the title , which he wrested from someone in New Zealand . |
| 23 | All of these pavements , however , appear , to a greater or lesser extent , as vigorous and inventive designs , with an ease of draughtsmanship and the suggestion of free movement from or about a central point . |
| 24 | The Army brought an investigation into McCarthy and the blackmailing pressures he had put on it . |
| 25 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 26 | Watch Committees were organized to keep an eye on prostitution and the granting of licences to publicans . |
| 27 | The newspaper report was based on an announcement to shareholders and the media by Navan Resources . |
| 28 | The Welsh objections , far more cautionary than anti , mostly related to the possibility of political and economic instability in an era of change and the attendant dangers of hurrying South Africa back into such rugby prominence . |
| 29 | The appraisal will be time consuming and includes an examination of teaching and the other aspects of teachers ' job such as lesson planning and syllabus development . |
| 30 | Most readers treated an article on mathematics and the infinite with caution . |