Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that because of competitive pressures the company , which had already purchased its summer shoe stock and most of those for the autumn season , was unable to pass the increase on to the customer and gross margins suffered as a result . |
| 2 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 3 | Our research revealed that a significant number of such admissions were , in fact , perceived by the parents as a direct result of their requesting help , and that in such cases the parents actually welcomed the care order as an attempt to meet the needs of their children . |
| 4 | He pointed out that costs formerly allocated to the President no longer applied and that in future years the grant would require to be reduced . |
| 5 | This may mean that it was common for the bounds to be noted on site , and then sent to wherever the charter was drafted , and that in these instances the scribe copied in the Anglo-Saxon heading . |
| 6 | It also argues with some force against the human-centredness , the ‘ anthropocentrism ’ of the CCS scheme , and that in these places the interests of wildlife and ecology should be give absolute priority , even above human ‘ spiritual replenishment ’ . |
| 7 | They take for granted that the service of process requires the involvement of State officials , the usual civil law approach ; that international co-operation between officials of different states in matters of civil procedure is initiated by letters rogatory transmitted by the diplomatic channel ; and that in these respects the service of documents is in exactly the same category as the taking of evidence abroad . |
| 8 | It relies on the fact that trees grow annual rings , and that in some trees the thickness of these rings is subject to seasonal variation ; when a tree is felled , a pattern of annual rings of varying thickness can be seen . |
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| 11 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 12 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 13 | All fungi require about 20 per cent moisture content in the host wood to germinate and although in new buildings the moisture content of the timber may be as high as 18 per cent , this is soon reduced to about 12–14 per cent by heating and ventilation of the enclosed spaces . |
| 14 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the [ defendant ] is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 15 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the appellant is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 16 | And as in previous years the evening was a great success . |
| 17 | But if in recent years the market in British government bonds has declined in size , the market for other sterling bonds has grown . |
| 18 | Amidst such confusion as this , however , the press was more commonly inclined to shout down the leniency of magistrates , or ‘ this appalling apathy on the part of the police ’ , because if in some quarters the press were accused of bulling up the Hooligan affair , elsewhere the police were said to be playing it down . |