Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb pp] [adv] [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 | I got a bit carried away with the Wogan show and all that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers . |
| 11 | Industrial partners often have a budget allowed specifically for the operation of the partnership and of more generous proportions than budgets allowed to educationists . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | a ( disjunctive ) clause is a sentence composed only with the connectives v and * in which all variables are universally quantified . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They seem , rather , to function as a disturbance — admittedly small-scale — of the A section 's tonal stability ; this is a technique derived directly from the nineteenth-century Lied and piano character piece . |
| 20 | It is a technique used both on the Left and on the Right , by General Pinochet as well as by General Castro . |
| 21 | If it is a story aimed simply at the local media , two or three press releases may be sufficient , sent to the reporter on the local evening paper and the local radio station . |
| 22 | It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Outside the Bombers is a seat funded partly by the No 10 Squadron Association in appreciation of the villagers ' support during the war . |
| 25 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 26 | You remember that night was pretty dark , so I could n't have seen if there was a boat tied up at the jetty . |
| 27 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 28 | This was a figure plucked out of the air by the Commission who know that the scale of fraud is not adequately monitored . |
| 29 | Pouf , man , you 've let yourself be scared by a figure plucked out of the clouds . |
| 30 | ‘ Christ , look out ! ’ shouted Pearce as a figure blundered out of the elevator . |