Example sentences of "an [noun] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 2 | Preston took the tube to Polly 's , an experience which the twins anticipated with rather more enthusiasm than he . |
| 3 | After all , they were about to host the 1990 European City of Culture , an award which the tenants in Glasgow felt they richly deserved . |
| 4 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 5 | Even in this sense , Cotte makes a case for analysing let as evoking permission from the point of view of non-intervention , " permitting " being represented here in a purely negative fashion , as not intervening to stop the realization of an action which the permittee wishes to perform . |
| 6 | The bankruptcy of the plaintiff in an action which the trustee might maintain for the benefit of the creditors does not cause the action to abate if , within such reasonable time as the court orders , the trustee elects to continue the action and to give security . |
| 7 | It is difficult to decide when you are an outsider what the business is like . |
| 8 | ‘ An agreement to do an act which the promisor is under an existing obligation to a third party to do , may quite well amount to valid consideration … the promisee obtains the benefit of a direct obligation … |
| 9 | Herman Yameogo , son of the country 's first President , Maurice Yameogo , was in July 1990 expelled as secretary-general of the Movement of Patriotic Democrats ( Mouvement des démocrates progressifs — MDP , founded in 1987 ) for alleged financial irregularities and lack of democracy and for sending a letter to Compaore in May 1990 calling for political change , an act which the MDP called " irresponsible and subversive " . |
| 10 | He had made an allegedly anti-Turkish speech on Sept. 21 and had reportedly criticized US President George Bush for US neutrality over Nagorny-Karabakh , an attitude which the Armenian leadership feared could jeopardise Western aid . |
| 11 | There are a couple more cases of recent vintage , but this is not an issue which the higher courts confront very often . |
| 12 | Jean McFadden , leader of the COSLA Labour group , said she believed water privatisation was an issue which the Scottish public would see as being equal in importance to the poll tax . |
| 13 | I mean this at the undergraduate level this is not just an issue which the women students are concerned about . |
| 14 | Suppose , however , the children have to secretly plan an escape which the crew of the ship are to know nothing about … |
| 15 | Determining the role and scope of managers within the industry is an exercise which the Association first undertook in the 1970s . |
| 16 | The power of the father is not quite like that of the ‘ patriarch ’ in Filmer 's Patriarcha ( 1680 ) , yet his activities outside the home invest him with an importance which the wife does not have . |
| 17 | The idea is that it will block the action of an enzyme which the toxins force the body to produce , an enzyme responsible for much of the damage . |
| 18 | 69.315 ) and consequently to his source in the first century B.C. : its content agrees with an opinion which the source of Appian . |
| 19 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 20 | It is most often used in whole group work , but it is also very productive in forum theatre , particularly if the role you take on functions as an obstacle which the class ( or representatives of the class ) have to find their way round by argument , persuasion and compromise . |
| 21 | To obstruct , to provide an obstacle which the class has to overcome , to challenge . |
| 22 | That case concerned an article which The Sunday Times were proposing to publish . |
| 23 | The continued liberty of the subject demands vigilance on the part of the judges in ensuring that no trial on a criminal charge , or appeal , bears any trace of being biased towards an outcome which the Government wants to see . |
| 24 | AD 360 , an event which the excavator himself has associated with the fall of Magnentius . |
| 25 | This suggests that an event which the law might not recognize as pollution can in practice nevertheless be treated as such . |
| 26 | Irene said : ‘ Having the BS5750 standard further enhances the credibility of Precision Studios ’ business and is an achievement which the whole workforce can be proud of . |
| 27 | Indeed , ask an IBMer what the letters CICS stand for these days and the answer , delivered with hardly a grin will be ‘ Certainly Is Client-Server ’ . |
| 28 | Inter-organizational and inter-agency relationships have become increasingly complex ; quangos ( with their organizational and informational resources ) are only part of this complex administrative and political environment — an environment which the operations of quangos themselves influence ( see Moore and Booth , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object . |
| 30 | He in fact makes an offer which the shopkeeper is free to accept or to reject . |