Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | This clarity , aided by his youth , made him handsome , though there was about the handsomeness something of the coldness of a coin . |
2 | This apparently involves sending patients an eyesight test card and then running through the test itself over the telephone . |
3 | which is useful for taking the heat off the window itself in the Summer . |
4 | At a rave in Stafford 's Bingley Hall last month , Altern-8 launched an offensive by proclaiming rock music dead , flying in an African witch doctor to ‘ cleanse the air of rock ’ with an ancient incantation , and rounding off the ceremony themselves with the sacrifice of a Fender Stratocaster . |
5 | ( A Mrs. Furness , for example , ‘ was last night seized with vertigo and other symptoms of congestion of the head which by the immediate application of a dozen leeches was presently relieved … ’ ) . |
6 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
7 | My charge against the Government and most of the Conservative Back Bench Members is that the majority of them do not care , and those who do — I include the Minister for Housing and Planning — are too wedded to , too unable to break away from , the principles of the Government who during the past 12 years , have created the crisis . |
8 | Do not necessarily accept the doctor 's word for this , you have your own duty to the client and the doctor may not have taken into account the importance of the case itself to the client 's best interest . |
9 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
10 | But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management . |
11 | He doubts ‘ whether the significance which the certainty of the law has for the smooth and efficient working of economic life can be exaggerated ’ and suggests that ‘ there is probably no single factor which has contributed to the greater prosperity of the Western world compared with the Orient than the relative certainty of the law which in the West had early been achieved ’ . |
12 | The most important indicator was the role of the Commission which under the guidance of Walter Hallstein had played the active role hoped for by ardent Europeanists , overcoming the diminution of the supranational element in the EEC as compared to the ECSC . |
13 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
14 | But the paraphernalia of better light bulbs , lean-burn engines and cavity-wall insulation with which the North supports its arguments are likely to be dismissed as irrelevant in parts of the world which for the most part have no need for cavity walls . |
15 | It has generally been thought a manifestation of the taste which in the immediately following period adapted many fabulous monsters from the East ; but it has no close eastern parallels , and the discovery of the Lefkandi Centaur pushes back the concept in Greece a long way . |
16 | The following equations need to be estimated : , where P is the market price ( 310p ) , EX is the exercise or subscription price ( 255p ) , rf is the risk-free rate of interest ( 0.12 per cent ) , is the standard deviation of the security which in the case of Polly Peck is ( O.59 ) , t is the time to expiry as a fraction of a year ( 21/365=0.058 ) , C is the estimated value of the call which in this case is the value of a complete right , and e is the natural logarithm base ( 2.7183 ) . |
17 | An Assured Shorthold Tenant may make an application to a Rent Assessment Committee for a determination of the rent which in the opinion of the Committee the landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain for the property . |
18 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
19 | In addition to a claim for capital loss or loss of profits , a claim can be made for any consequential loss which falls within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale , i.e. loss of a type which at the time of the contract could reasonably have been predicted by both parties as liable ( i.e. not unlikely ) to occur in the event of the breach . |
20 | Firstly TBDFs are basically an extension across borders of a phenomenon which in the 1980S expanded dramatically at national level . |
21 | He said the country had been ‘ stunned ’ last week by the prospect of a government which on the one hand said Parliament would make the decision on ratification , but on the other that the Government would use the Royal Prerogative ‘ to avoid any voice , any vote , and decision by Parliament ’ . |
22 | The gradual loss of alternating classes , such as ( pull ) is also related to merger patterns , as the end result of this long historical process is loss of a distinction which at the moment is still socially functional . |
23 | ‘ An intestinal infection is of no significance whatsoever in the field of public health because such infection will not give rise to any problems to public health , ’ he told Lord Justice Parker and Mr Tudor Evans during a judicial review of the Ministry 's order to slaughter the chickens . |
24 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
25 | It 's a remarkable rise for a company which in the early days operated from a nissen hut at the same site . |
26 | Mr , you and I have debated in the past er in this room er whether or not exceptional circumstances are necessary to define an inset boundary for a village which in the sketch plan of the greenbelt to have been shown as washed over . |
27 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |
28 | As a journalist who over the years had written-up dozens of Honours ' lists for the papers , I knew how the names came in a day early with an embargo . |
29 | Originally the rules linked the old and new owners with the land itself by the " delivery of seisin " , the handing over of a clod of earth on site . |
30 | Since then the name has become associated with the sport itself in the form of windsurfing . |