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

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1 As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history .
2 In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) .
3 Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- .
4 The list of HMG-box containing proteins is growing rapidly , comprising a variety of functions the common activity of which seems to be their ability to bind DNA through this domain ( 3-9 ) .
5 For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare .
6 However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced .
7 For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons .
8 The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing .
9 Unlike Weber , therefore , who argues that in advanced industrialised societies representative democracy is for a variety of reasons the best available method by which to recruit political leaders , Schumpeter has little interest in recommending political participation for any reason .
10 I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case .
11 By the late 1970s , the average self-respecting British household expected to have its video recorder or microwave oven ; in a variety of occupations the computer was taking over .
12 When we looked at the Telegraph and the Times things seem so samey , there 's just this uniform effect everything seeming to look the same whereas here they 've really used such a variety of styles the curly , the straight , the blocked plus your black blocks across the bottom .
13 Hence , when selecting a parser it is vital to determine how wide a variety of grammar the parser is able to process and how easily it can be extended to a larger domain .
14 At a function in Bucharest the British Ambassador asked for something from home .
15 A few rocks showed in the water close in to the quarry face and there was a crescent of sand the meadow side of the water with two giant pines shading the right corner .
16 In putting a case on paper the officer is also yielding control over its disposal :
17 Well I think it 's going to be a case of phone the council and ask them
18 Not a bit of wonder the country 's in the state that it 's in . ’
19 He 's the one , do a bit of thingy the one
20 With a bit of luck the passage would be empty .
21 With a bit of luck the three of us should be able to get together tonight . ’
22 Rather when Carla comes back Monday you 've got to tape the with a bit of wood the window just outside the door because the bolt is on the same side .
23 After that we never got started , as soon as we got a bit of momentum the sunderland players wasted time by falling over and claiming injury .
24 Mucky hands and a fat bank balance would be a way of life for the first generation of nouveaux-riches manufacturers ; but with a bit of care the brass itself could be used to buy their children out of the world of muck altogether .
25 By Prince Regent , out of a mare by Run The Gantlet , he has a flat race pedigree but never ran on the level .
26 She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city .
27 20 ( Above ) Head from a statue of Alexander the Great ( d.323 BC ) .
28 The guild hall has a statue of Charles the first , Charles the second and Queen Anne over the top .
29 We stepped into the cold marble hall and waited under a statue of George the Third masquerading as Alexander the Great .
30 The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard .
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