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

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1 In a base configuration the developer Station includes three Intel Corp 486DX 66MHz CPUs , 16Mb to 256Mb memory , 400Mb disk , CD-ROM and a selection of ports .
2 John got the ticket in a bucket shop the day after he came back from China .
3 Pruning a beech hedge the easy way
4 As a parting gift the Keraing had given me a scale model of the prahu we were sailing in , which I had lashed to the hull walls facing backwards .
5 Ripa di Meana demanded that the EC Commission take unilateral action to resolve the siting issue , " because every day 's delay in the taking of a decision delays the start of the Agency 's work by another day " .
6 The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque .
7 If , for example , a firm were to amend its sales budget half-way through a budget period the personnel responsible for production need to know this amended sales budget so they can plan and make provisions to ensure the products are available for sale .
8 Even when the government runs a budget surplus the Bank of England will still have to manage the national debt ( the accumulated borrowing from the past ) .
9 From a functionalist perspective the Committee 's value was , first , as a pressure-release valve and , secondly , that it ‘ disposed once and for all of this conspiratorial theory of executive power ’ .
10 In the rarer case of a midsole failures the shoe often feels like a flat tyre , losing its bounce and becoming harder .
11 For a university undergraduate the research may be a dissertation , which is the student 's first attempt at a piece of individual research .
12 She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London .
13 Got brought a pushbike wheel the other day .
14 Méndez had suffered a heart attack the previous month but , although he was reportedly advised by his doctors to avoid pressure , he had been mentioned as a possible leader of the government delegation in resumed peace talks with the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity ( URNG ) guerrilla leaders in Mexico in late April [ see p. 38141 ] .
15 Bob Nichols , the chap you 're here to replace , had a heart attack the day before we docked . ’
16 This process is trivial for a native speaker of a language , however for a computer system the solution is more difficult .
17 A designer need only draw on a computer screen the letter forms that he likes and the machine will convert them automatically into Bézier curves .
18 What a field day the train spotters had !
19 Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever .
20 In Brinkibon Ltd. v. Stahag Stahl ( 1982 H.L. ) the House of Lords confirmed the decision in Entores v. Miles Far East Company , that normally in the case of a telephone conversation or a telex communication the postal exception does not apply and therefore the acceptance takes effect when ( and where ) it is actually communicated to the offeror .
21 Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument .
22 ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’
23 PC World is also about to introduce low-cost training at its Croydon superstore surely a great boon to anyone who has spent days getting to grips with a user manual the size of a telephone directory !
24 I heard a fuzz guitar the other night — who was playing it ?
25 Straight ahead and aiming at a silver moon the tarmac is a dark rich salmon colour , burnt orangey in places and patched with indigo .
26 Villagers are angry over a proposed deal which would give owners of a gravel pit the right to build thirty houses .
27 If the injuries would only have been lessened by wearing a seat belt the damages may be reduced by 15 per cent .
28 Instead memory performance will depend on how it is tested , in a recognition paradigm the important aspect will be nature of the distractors competing with each target .
29 For a recognition application the aim of the model is to participate in the choice of candidates recognised ( Jelinek , Mercer & Bahl , 1983 ) .
30 As a wedding present the queen created Bothwell Duke of Orkney and Lord of Shetland .
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