Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been arranged that she should make a regular weekly visit in order to vaccinate all new puppies , do an inspection of all the animals already there , and be on call for any emergency . |
| 2 | A sort of paring-down : in my analysis a surrender of the crisis-and-clarity urge , and an unloading of all the consecutions of theory upon others , principally Kirillov and Shatov . |
| 3 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |
| 4 | He ( I 'm sure of the pronoun , since all too few women carry the initials C ENG , MIEE , after their names ) refers to the Chinese proposal that the combined pull of the four giant outer planets influences our weather , and objects to using the term ‘ synod ’ , meaning an alignment of all the planets to describe this event . |
| 5 | The car has a top speed of a 152 miles an hour plus all the features the golf-clubbing , jet-setting buyer would want . |
| 6 | I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake . |
| 7 | Later on this channel , you 'll get an update on all the stories making the headlines in Scotland — that 's at eleven o'clock . |
| 8 | This may simply involve consulting an index of all the sites , finds and monuments in the area , but if such an index does not exist , extensive research in museums and libraries may be necessary to compile such an index before any work in the field takes place . |
| 9 | The ceremonies were designed to renew the king 's vitality , to reaffirm his rule and to give an opportunity for all the nomes of districts in the land to reswear allegiance to him . |
| 10 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 11 | This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood . |
| 12 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 13 | I stood on Magdalen Bridge in the dying day , and the sky , mother-of-pearl streaked with violet and awash with rose and yellow light , gave me a tightness at the throat ; it seemed an intimation of all the beauty and sorrow of the world . |
| 14 | He read out Christine 's part , giving an imitation of all the inflections in her voice , at the same time prompting those around him when they forgot their lines . |
| 15 | ‘ What is needed is an event that takes an overview of all the dynamics of the IT industry and focuses each aspect back to the key issue of how this provides business benefit . ’ |
| 16 | An article in All the World reported , " There is no money for this but we are going ahead in faith . " |
| 17 | A decent , upright man , he is an epitome of all the military virtues . |
| 18 | In this picture , Joni has not just imitated or interpreted a style , but has been able to create an object with all the patina , or aura , of an ancient work of art . |
| 19 | Therefore , under the commander theory , the financial report of the organization is an aggregation of all the stewardship and performance reports for each responsibility centre . |
| 20 | It permits a takeover offer to be made for a private company if it is an offer for all the shares in , or all the shares comprised in the equity or non-equity share capital of , that company ( other than shares held by the offeror ) and the conditions set out in the article are satisfied . |
| 21 | Britain needed an economy of all the talents . |
| 22 | In fact , a study by the OECD ( 1982 ) , found that the proportion of GNP absorbed by public expenditure between 1954 and the early 1980s on ‘ merit goods ’ ( education , health and housing ) and ‘ income maintenance ’ ( pensions , sickness , family and unemployment benefits ) had doubled from 14 to 28% , as an average across all the advanced industrialized countries . |
| 23 | The branches and guilds of the RNLI are an example to all the charities in the land both for their dedication and for the results achieved . |
| 24 | He gives as an example of this the growth of a ‘ pornocracy ’ and through the break-up of the sex-procreation nexus has come the increasing commodification of pleasure — the developing range of sex-pleasure items on the market . |
| 25 | The Hon. Lady 's old trick of quoting one item as an example for all the valleys has not come off this time . |
| 26 | Do I think that we 're setting , we are setting , us personally are setting an example for all the little people ? |
| 27 | The ‘ air ’ was an extension of both the lakes and clouds . |
| 28 | There is no mysticism about it , but rather an acceptance of death and an awareness of all the little moments when the self was inadequate . |
| 29 | Since the mental element required for the commission of the the offences of organisation and participation is knowledge which the courts increasingly interpret to require an awareness of all the circumstances by virtue of which it is said that an offence is committed , it may well be sensible police practice to issue a warning before arresting and prosecuting with an offence under this Part of the Act . |
| 30 | an offence to all the wind and light , |