Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , the Howarth Bill took a different route , proposing to add an alternative test based on whether or not the work in question was ‘ grossly offensive to a reasonable person ’ . |
| 2 | However , deficiencies in the ability of the study to accurately record information on the cause of death meant that it could not be shown whether or not the reduction in mortality had been due to a reduction in diarrhoea-related deaths and hence due to the programme . |
| 3 | The scheme is applicable whether or not the school in question is the student 's main base . |
| 4 | The situation without a check varies depending on whether or not the action in question has an escapement mechanism . |
| 5 | This is to allow the Commission an opportunity to determine whether or not the aid in question is compatible with the Treaty of Rome . |
| 6 | The basic principles set out in this Code will apply whether or not the lending in question is secured . |
| 7 | I think that perhaps the snake in alcohol was left too . |
| 8 | You might imagine that somehow the discrepancy in Figure 5.2 can be explained by supposing that the planets have withheld from the atmosphere different proportions of their supply of the different isotopes . |
| 9 | The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types . |
| 10 | We have already seen that indirectly the question in utterance ( i ) must be understood as a request . |
| 11 | Assuming that neither the document in question , nor the tests of which its examination formed a part , gave the auditor reason to be put on enquiry , he can hardly be criticised if it subsequently transpires that the document was fraudulently created or used . |
| 12 | Expectations of childhood and ways of treating babies changed rapidly in the 1950s , and perhaps the difference in perception between me and my sister is no more than four years ' difference in age , and a reflection of a change in expectation on the part of children themselves , learned from the altered practice of adults around . |
| 13 | However , when she raised her head to look at him once more he hesitated , giving a preoccupied shake of his head before beginning to pace up and down the carpet in front of her . |
| 14 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
| 15 | By the time we have finished his chapter called ‘ The Heavens ’ , we have not only been informed about what the shape of the Ptolemaic universe was like , and how the belief in astrology worked , and how much knowledge was in our sense ‘ scientific ’ and how much ‘ poetic ’ or ‘ mythological ’ . |
| 16 | Some major city spaces become foci for activity generated not by buildings surrounding them but by their special sense of identity ( good examples are the Piazza San Marco in Venice and indeed the space in front of our own National Gallery ) . |
| 17 | As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market . |
| 18 | The political leadership of the majority party and therefore the party in government and occupying ministerial office might find it politically expedient to preserve the rules and conventions which make it difficult for other politicians to call the bureaucracy to account . |
| 19 | Roxburgh has enjoyed the hype and banter like the next man , but yesterday the job in hand concentrated his mind . |
| 20 | But also the increase in road commuting on routes into Leeds which are already severely affected and recognized as such by the Department of Transport and by the City Council . |
| 21 | If nothing is done , the regulations already passed will continue improving air quality until the mid-1990s but then the growth in population , and car numbers , will send pollution rising again , indefinitely . ’ |
| 22 | Right but definitely the death in service . |
| 23 | Yes , but again this can not be the whole story because sometimes the food in question is identical to the previous meal , which was consumed greedily . |
| 24 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 25 | But this is the general position and in vehicles like Minis it could be argued that such a view can be obtained when only the wiper in front of the driver works , therefore each vehicle must be dealt with separately . |