Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Both are consistent with an origin in Iran where the material is mined from veins in Khorasan .
2 H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time .
3 My guess would be an upsurge of sentiment whenever the money was getting tight .
4 ‘ Minch is not just any eagle , she is an eagle of Callanish where the greatest of our kind come from .
5 Its loss can lead only to an invasion of imports when the recession ends and the market picks up .
6 ( 2 ) It is an obtaining of services where the other is induced to confer a benefit by doing some act , or causing or permitting some act to be done , on the understanding that the benefit has been or will be paid for .
7 Such a long passage without any breathing spaces would be trying for a single player , who would have to fit in an intake of breath where the phrasing breaks .
8 The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 .
9 In Dunton v. Dunton ( 1892 ) 18 V.L.R. 114 ( Supreme Court of Victoria ) , the Court ( Higinbotham and Williams JJ. , Hood J. dissenting ) held that an agreement between ex-spouses whereby the former husband undertook to pay the former wife £6 per month , ‘ so long as she … shall conduct herself with sobriety , and in a respectable , orderly , and virtuous manner ’ was a valid contract made for a consideration .
10 Castro had established relations with the People 's Republic of China in September 1960 and , two months later , Che Guevara signed an agreement in Beijing whereby the Chinese bought 1 m.t .
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