Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such groups can properly be described in terms of free association within a generally accepted cultural diversity , though it must be noted that even here , in many cases , the diversity is established by these initiatives , rather than prepared for them , and that in the cases of particular branches of an art the initiatives often involve significant local conflict . |
| 2 | ‘ In order to be made liable as principal for the acts of an agent the principal must at least consent to or adopt his appointment . |
| 3 | In the teeth of a recession the reworked Labour Party and the reworked Mr Kinnock are level-pegging with the Tories . |
| 4 | In the accounts of a business the principal repayment would merely be a transfer of funds within the balance sheet from the owners to the creditors . |
| 5 | For n moles of a gas the equation is |
| 6 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 7 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 8 | Under the hands and feet of an expert the organ can sound more rhythmical than many people imagine , although it does not usually match the rhythmic or percussive elements of a piano or modern keyboard . |
| 9 | He had ‘ no tie — so rude at a formal party like this , heavy dun trousers of a fashion the French might call ‘ eclat merdeaux ’ , smeared with darkening souvenirs of food and drink bound by a belt from the corpse of a dead guardsman . |
| 10 | The European past , with its record of interaction between conflicting civilizations , religions , and cultures , lacked the unity and ‘ all-embracing certainty ’ of the Chinese and so presented historical problems of a kind the latter never encountered . |
| 11 | As appropriates involves assuming the rights of an owner the interview between the police officer in the case and the accused can be important . |
| 12 | The Estwicks were in Hong Kong , Giles having been required to visit the head office of one of their major commercial sponsors to finalise the details of a competition the radio station was shortly due to run for them , and Cavell Fielding had also departed for the Crown Colony a few days previously , telling Maria that whether she returned depended on Luke 's instructions . |
| 13 | After completing three quarters of a loop the model is reluctant to pull out of the ensuing dive . |
| 14 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 15 | If you arrange your archers on the slopes of a hill the rear ranks can shoot over the heads of the ranks in front , enabling you to take advantage of large numbers . |
| 16 | This means that in the early stages of a project the components tested will be very rudimentary . |
| 17 | During the final stages of an attack the weapon 's sensors lock on to the target ship 's radar or sonar signals and the Telemine homes in on them . |
| 18 | It gives all members of a group the same set of attributes . |
| 19 | For free longitudinal vibrations of a beam the resonant frequencies bear simple harmonic relationships to each other , but for transverse vibrations the equation of motion is where x is measured along the cantilever , y is the deflection of a point on it from its equilibrium position , k is the radius of gyration of the cross-section of the beam , E is Young 's modulus and — is the density . |
| 20 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 21 | For index futures there is clear evidence that the futures price leads the spot price by a few minutes , while for lags of a day the evidence is much weaker . |
| 22 | In March 1979 Haferkamp visited Tokyo to discuss trade restrictions of a type the EEC is now imposing . |
| 23 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 24 | Gardeners Roadshow Owing to the inability of obtaining the services of a speaker the meeting had to be cancelled . |
| 25 | The clocks are very expensive — some costing more than ten thousand pounds , but even in the depths of a recession the firm thought it had enough work to keep it ticking over . |