Example sentences of "the [noun] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hosts : Dog , cat and fox Site : Small intestine Species : Uncinaria stenocephala Distribution : Temperate and sub-arctic areas ; the " northern hook-worm " A small worm , up to 1.0 cm long , it possesses two cutting plates on the border of the buccal capsule ( Fig. 38 ) and at the base a small pair of teeth . |
| 2 | Since the mid-1970s a growing number of privately owned small psychiatric hospitals has been established . |
| 3 | This gives the retailer a clear picture of how much is being spent , and on what . |
| 4 | The parallels between the methods used to suppress unrest in Lhasa and those used to put down the student-led demonstrations in Peking made the award a double indictment of China 's human-rights record . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 6 | When combined with the sensitivity and psychic state of the experiencer a whole range of possibilities opens up . |
| 7 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 8 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 9 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 10 | In research completed this year , one of us ( Randles ) has shown that the ‘ mystery helicopter ’ is a typical UAP and has verified in the field a substantial number of Persinger 's postulates . |
| 11 | In practice , where a public company has a wide spread of shareholders , a significant minority shareholding may give the holder a decisive degree of influence over the company 's activities . |
| 12 | Not only was the chart a perfect picture of a fire with consequences way beyond structural damage , but the repetition of the Queen 's horoscope made clear that this was an event targeted at the heart of the monarchy . |
| 13 | There were still to be found on the roads a vagrant population of Celtic wanderers from Scotland or Ireland , and those who followed the travelling occupations like chapmen , pedlars and itinerant entertainers , as well as the true travelling people , the gypsies and tinkers . |
| 14 | The face that came before his eyes was Diana 's , soft-featured , full-cheeked , the mouth dimpled at its corners , the eyes large and dark brown , the hair a rich mass of chestnut-brown silkiness . |
| 15 | Both allow programs to pretend that they are connected to a PostScript printer and so offer the user a wider range of typefaces , GoScript comes with emulators for both the basic four-font and extended eleven-font sets . |
| 16 | She got out of the taxi on Des Voeux and handed the driver a crumpled fistful of Hong Kong dollars . |
| 17 | ‘ We think we can give the vegetables a clean bill of health , sir . ’ |
| 18 | In the great roles — his Tristan , his Otello — it seems to me he brings to the part a unique sense of musical phrasing . |
| 19 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 20 | The council has also been giving the college a yearly grant of seventy thousand pounds . |
| 21 | Re-engagement involves offering the employee a fresh contract of employment . |
| 22 | After the wedding a large number of our friends came to a party at our house . |
| 23 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 24 | There are many sorts of visionaries , and one of the highest is the sort that forms in the mind a complete system of existence . |
| 25 | I 'm gon na give the shepherd a rough time of it ! |
| 26 | The Treaty was to provide in the future a solid core of cooperation between the two states and which , on the whole , probably benefited the EEC . |
| 27 | And tonight the orchestra , intrigued by the vibrations they had picked up of something unusual happening this season , gave the entrance a full-bodied flourish of emotional sound , a build-up of chord and melody that culminated with Therese , shimmering , a mass of silver and flashing diamonds , swinging her way down to front stage , smiling , radiant , totally in control , moving quickly , gracefully around her stage guests , a wave of her muff to this one , a kiss blown to that . |
| 28 | EEG ( electro-encephalographic , or brainwave ) , EOG ( electro-oculographic , or eye movement ) and EMG ( electro-myographic , or muscle activity ) recordings are simultaneously taken to give the scorer a composite picture of activity throughout the night . |
| 29 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 30 | Mr Parkinson now faces the challenge of selling to the electorate a controversial policy of lower subsidies and higher fares . |