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

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1 Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered .
2 ‘ In the event of an assessment of stress the purchase would be aborted . ’
3 To complete development of an algorithm for simulation the ‘ ragged edge ’ ( partial macro information ) within rational expectations models .
4 I checked through the rest of his diaries and every year it was the same , an entry on February the eleventh saying : ‘ Today Elsie is … ’ ' and then her age .
5 Biya had announced the holding of the elections , originally scheduled to take place in March 1993 , in early September , in a move regarded by many observers as an attempt to wrong-foot the opposition .
6 In April 1050 he and Bishop Hermann [ q.v. ] of Ramsbury visited Rome on an errand of Edward the Confessor [ q.v. ] ; according to later and possibly unreliable sources it was to secure the king 's release from a vow of pilgrimage made before his accession .
7 The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’
8 The supporters do not consistently play some of the Club 's best players out of position to accommodate players so far past their sell-by date that if they were a tin of fish paste there 's be an outbreak of salmonella the length and breadth of Mersey Street !
9 We arranged an interview for noon the next day at his house on Rocky Point .
10 10.1 Where an employee has been absent from work as a result of an act of violence the Director of Social Work will give due consideration to referring the employee to the medical adviser either prior to or immediately following their return to work .
11 So , similarly , in the First World War , we assumed proudly as an accolade of honour the Kaiser 's ridicule of the first British Expeditionary Force as that ‘ contemptible little army ’ .
12 The desire for quality is an attitude of mind the Profitboss cultivates throughout the whole organization .
13 In an exchange of letters the Polish government declared among other things that the " prospect " of Poland joining the EC " will increasingly create opportunities to make it easier also for German citizens to settle in the Republic of Poland " .
14 On Dec. 10 , 1991 , in an exchange of letters the Republic of Byelarus resumed active participation as a fully-fledged WHO member .
15 Following an exchange of fire the Ju88 flew back to Sicily in a damaged condition and with one crewman wounded , but one Beaufighter — T3239 ‘ B ’ crewed by Flt.Lt .
16 Chairman , I believe that this is just the sort of motion that can only bring local government into disrepute It 's an abuse of power the council holds lands in the county farms estate for purposes set out in the nineteen sixty agriculture act .
17 he kept going on and on and on and he said do you think it was an error of judgment and he was trying to get Kinnock to say yes and he said yes it was an error of judgment the way he , he 'd sort of said I think he must of said in the mid seventies , that if he got in power he 'd get rid of all nuclear weapons
18 ‘ No , nothing of importance , except I think you want to keep an eye on Billy the welder .
19 His conversion led to an upsurge of praise the pressure of which could not be denied .
20 Due to an upsurge in vocations the Holy Ghost Fathers have now established a new province for Kenya , Tanzania and Uganda .
21 After an interval for reflection the prosecuting authorities elected to offer no evidence in relation to the Gammon House affair .
22 For an aeon of time the words meant nothing .
23 A SPANISH fisherman died yesterday after an accident on board the 40-metre Ormaza , 70 miles south-east of Rockall .
24 On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 .
25 A similar pattern emerged from a second kind of monitoring — rhyme monitoring — in which subjects were given an instruction like Press the button whenever you hear a word rhyming with ‘ bread ’ .
26 Poor bugger had caught a bad one in an ambush outside Blarney the previous day .
27 The people of Wales deserve an apology from Ministers The poll tax was conceived in Finchley , tested on Scotland , and imposed on Wales via the Wirral .
28 Barratt sold 2,017 houses at an average price of £75,800 in the half year , down from 2,128 completions at an average of £81,200 the previous year .
29 ‘ It 's an exhibition about Michelangelo the sculptor , not Michelangelo 's sculptures ’ , in the words of Pietro C. Marani of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici of Milan , curator at the Pinacoteca di Brera , and scientific co-ordinator of the exhibition .
30 Non-stop mix-transfers are a three-handed job , and you will need the help of an assistant to cue-in the music material and to take care of the changing of source-discs and or cassettes on the replay machine if required .
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