Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A provision for the partners to draw in advance of final ascertainment of their profit sharethe limits of which might conveniently be defined by reference to some proportion of the previous year 's profits ( Clause 10.03 ) making sufficient allowance for the possibility that that year 's profit levels may not be repeated let alone exceeded . |
| 2 | must allow for the possibility that different professionals will bring different perspectives which may result in different conclusions or recommendations as to what is a desirable outcome of the assessment process , and therefore must provide a mechanism by which such differences can be identified , recorded , and , if possible , reduced . |
| 3 | For example , assuming for the present that some notion of proportionality does underlie discrimination cases , the content that should be given to this notion will differ depending on whether the commentator is a utilitarian , a Rawlsian liberal , or a modern communitarian . |
| 4 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 5 | A constructed exchange control index is used to provide support for the hypothesis that financial deregulation has provided a boost to foreign portfolio investment . |
| 6 | I tell him Dynjandi — the local name for the waterfall that most visitors to Iceland would recognise as Fjallfoss — and he thinks a little . |
| 7 | The reason for the gloss that this book puts on the world 's space affairs is simple . |
| 8 | In the data there is some support for the notion that certain matters such as child care and support for elderly people are regarded as women 's business in families , while men 's business is money ; but it would be too crude to assume that this simple division of responsibilities could explain all the gender differences which occur in kin support . |
| 9 | This has not in any way curtailed enthusiasm for the principle that good design is based upon utility among its acolytes in London 's Design Centre or the Boilerhouse project of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , where beauty through ergonomics may still be an avowed aim . |
| 10 | There was no warrant for not following the ample precedent for the proposition that mere delay which gave rise to prejudice and unfairness could by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 11 | ‘ We see no warrant for not following ample precedent , now well set , for the proposition that mere delay which gives rise to prejudice and unfairness may by itself amount to an abuse of the process . |
| 12 | The overall conclusion of the AD paper is that there is some support for the proposition that monetary growth affects real output only if it is unpredictable , and that the impact on output of unpredictable monetary growth declines the more unpredictable monetary growth becomes . |
| 13 | This difficulty in the court 's approach was addressed by Scott J in Balston Ltd v Headline Fitters Ltd [ 1987 ] FSR 330 who stated that Faccenda was not authority for the proposition that confidential information that could not be protected by an implied term ipso facto could not be protected by express agreement . |
| 14 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 15 | There was support notably from hard-line leaders in Iran for the proposition that opposing US forces was akin to a holy war , a view given prominence when it was articulated by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a Sept. 12 broadcast , although Iran continued to affirm its backing for UN sanctions . |
| 16 | Although in Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the treaty had been entered into prior to the listing of Kakadu , in Re Ditford , ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation the case was cited as authority for the proposition that Australian courts have disclaimed entitlement to adjudicate upon decisions by the executive concerning the exercise of its treaty-making power . |
| 17 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 18 | There was also wide support for the idea that each qualification should have a clearly-specified number of credits . |
| 19 | This study does not , however , offer any support for the idea that diabetic patients looked after exclusively in primary care have worse glycaemic control and therefore a poorer prognosis . |
| 20 | There is strong support for the idea that excessive pain , expense , and hardship , together with no hope of benefit , may serve as the starting-points — though obviously words such as ‘ excessive ’ need further careful definition . |
| 21 | Nor can it account for the way that unskilled workers in a northern seaside town could imagine , think and plan how to move into the boarding house business . |
| 22 | It takes aim , compensating for the way that light bends as it passes from water to air and squirts a jet of drops , knocking the insect from its foothold so that it falls into the water and can be eaten . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ Barbara Coleman is not the only source for the story that Sabine Jourdain painted the Durances . |
| 24 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 25 | The England forward insists he is ready for the match that struggling Arsenal dare not lose , even though Graham is worried that it might be a couple of weeks before Merson sheds enough pounds to be back to his peak . |
| 26 | However , he argues strongly for the claim that successful handling of aggressive impulses is culturally possible ( see also his paper in this volume ) . |
| 27 | In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love . |
| 28 | Although unfortunate for the view that latent inhibition can be equated with conditioned inhibition , these results do not in fact constitute a death blow . |
| 29 | This can be regarded as support for the view that such meteorites typify much of the material from which the three planets accreted . |
| 30 | The fact that most practices ' referral rates had increased in the second phase of the study provides no support for the view that first wave fundholders had artificially increased their rates of referral in the preparatory year to enable them to make budgetary savings in the subsequent year , although their rates were higher than those of the controls in phase 1 . |