Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly . |
| 2 | It appears from the accounts that quite a different reading is given to occasions of physical or verbal reprimand which fall within the acknowledged framework of official penalties . |
| 3 | Possibly no one will ever know just how much this particular gang made in ill gotten gains over their evil enterprise , but there was little doubt at the time of the trial that quite a fortune had been amassed and that most of the principals would be rich men when they came out of prison . |
| 4 | From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established . |
| 5 | Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season . |
| 6 | One suggested reason is to protect public bodies from vexatious litigants with no real interest in the outcome of the case but just a desire to make things difficult for the government . |
| 7 | It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex . |
| 8 | However , when language is used within a specific domain , it is often the case that only a subset of those senses is appropriate . |
| 9 | It was , there 's the basement and then a large room above where they used to have meetings er , you see , and er , and er , well they did they had friends from Stowmarket go and visit them , you see . |
| 10 | Articulated syntheses have vectorial qualities — not only a weight within the field but also a direction . |
| 11 | He pointed out that trade secrets falling in to the third category would subsequent upon the judgment of the Court of Appeal , be protected under an implied term of the contract and therefore an expressed restrictive covenant would not be needed to protect trade secrets or their equivalent . |
| 12 | Reasons of security lie behind the decision and only a few works will not be staying , including a handful of objects and paintings belonging to the artist himself and the painting ‘ Montroig , the church and the people ’ ( 1919 ) which has been promised to the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona . |
| 13 | When at last he was satisfied with the elevation he supervised the loading ; a dry wad over the cartridge and then a damp one . |
| 14 | The catalogue recalls that in 1938 Brame and Lorenceau held an exhibition of Rousseau 's work which contributed to the revival of interest in that artist 's work , and goes on to express the hope that eventually a museum devoted to Barbizon painting may be set up . |
| 15 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 16 | There are many medical treatments for incontinence , which include medicines , exercises , ‘ retraining ’ the bladder and occasionally an operation to repair the bladder . |
| 17 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 18 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 19 | They opened the gates by the steps and quite a few people are coming and going through them now . |
| 20 | Iridescent sequins attract the light and just a few scattered on to a design are really eye-catching . |
| 21 | So called keyhole surgery is being hailed as the way most operations will be carried out in the future but only a minority of surgeons can actually do it . |
| 22 | With this the two of them wall up the entrance until only a tiny slot is left open . |
| 23 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 24 | Is there a bottomless pit as suggested in the drawing or just a further depression that can be filled with a little more investment ? |
| 25 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 26 | Sadly , mass closures and redundancies have become commonplace , it 's no longer hitting the headlines , just a few small columns in the paper , so I ask you delegates , go back to your branches , raise the issue not just about coal but about all unemployment , chase up the media , write to your M P , especially the Tories , support the rallies and maybe a petition from this conference could be organized , but I say raise hell , give them no peace , one job loss is one too many and we ai n't gon na accept redundancy in any of our sections without a bloody good fight . |
| 27 | Bishop Trelawney 's home , Trelawne , is still standing in the parish , as is the ancient manor of Tregarrick , one time home of the Winslades and now a farm . |
| 28 | We have written very carefully descriptive material of what is really happening in the experiment and then a very succinct set of instructions — do this , do that , turn the left hand knob . |
| 29 | A light sampling approach is employed with the result that only a few students , in each of a representative sample of schools , are required to complete tests . |
| 30 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |