Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise .
2 1.30 In a serious personal injury case or in a fatal case the initial calculations of loss of earnings or dependency may be made very soon after the accident , based on wage rates provided by the employers at that time .
3 But with or without an American loan the issue of the external constraint turns on Britain 's obligations to the sterling area [ Bell , 1956 ] .
4 She had been married and divorced , had had fifteen lovers , give or take a little , had been to the United States seventeen times , to Africa twice , explored from a car or at a leisurely pace the capitals of Europe , twice circled the world , done the ‘ sophisticated ’ things but left undone so many ordinary things .
5 If you have a particular task in mind it may be that a 2.4 volt drill will perform quite adequately , although as a general rule the lower voltage drills are best suited to small diameter pilot drilling and countersinking .
6 Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get
7 The fact was that for a single man the job offered almost half the sum allotted to a couple .
8 I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right .
9 ‘ I was happy enough with The Big Wheel apart from the fact that as a nine piece the bloody band nearly bankrupted me !
10 To this effect , it suggested that as a general rule the police should be able to arrest an individual without a warrant if the crime which was suspected was one for which the individual could be jailed rather than simply fined .
11 In 1985 a Financial Management Unit report ( Cabinet Office ( MPO ) / Treasury ( FMU ) 1985b , p. 1 ) admitted that as a policy-analysis tool the FMI left ‘ scope for very considerable further improvement ’ .
12 We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you .
13 Following the pattern of community constables in England , where the overwhelming majority are male ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 9 ) , there are no females among Easton 's neighbourhood constables , although for a short period the sergeant was female .
14 Diagonally opposite the stove is the icon corner , although for a Belorussian peasant the most sacred spot is the stove column , where the souls of predecessors reside .
15 However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front .
16 Thus structuralists , as Lukes argued , are able to take on board the insights of elite and pluralist theories and explain why it is that despite a pluralist system the capitalist ruling class is still able to dominate society even without the use of direct repression .
17 The improved accuracy of the laser measurements reveals that along an isotopic chain the radius of the nuclear charge does not vary smoothly but shows a saw-tooth effect with a nucleus with odd mass number often lying below the straight line between the two adjacent nuclei with even mass number .
18 The Deputy Defence Secretary , Stane Brovet , expressed the Army 's concern that under a multiparty system the government administration would become politicized and that this would affect adversely the role of the Army [ see p. 37155 ] .
19 It will ensure that the growth that we have established over the last 10 years in terms of the range and volume of health care facilities continues under future Conservative Governments , partly because we are committed to ensuring a fairer distribution of resources within the NHS , which will secure benefits for the constituents of my hon. Friends , and partly because of the commitment given from this Dispatch Box yesterday by the Prime Minister — that under a Conservative Government the national health service will have its real resources increased year by year — something which the last Labour Government were unable to do .
20 Except in a piecemeal way the EC budget does neither .
21 Miller was conscious of economy and recognised that from an aesthetic viewpoint the Duke must be gratified , but felt that good use could be made of cheaper material elsewhere .
22 One aspect of scientific style , however , is that in a passive sentence the person who acts is often not mentioned at all , to symbolise the scientific ideal that the procedures should be objective and repeatable , independent of the agent who carries them out .
23 Animals that are too aggressive , too daring , or too timid for their own good in terms of reproduction are gradually eliminated so that in a stable environment the median values tend to become the population norms .
24 True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so .
25 However , none of these pollutants is actually visible , so that in a residential area the types of air pollution that cause the greatest annoyance are the traffic fumes , smell and dust which penetrate houses , discolour exterior paintwork and make walking and cycling less pleasant .
26 But the assumption , doubtful in itself , that in a Co-operative Community the distinction would have had no meaning does not explain why , when in the real world of Rochdale in the 1850s the distinction became apparent to them the Pioneers chose to set up the production arm as a separate society .
27 So Norris suggests that in a Bottle-nosed dolphin the sonar clicks are produced just below the level of this blow-hole .
28 It needs to be stressed that in a thermal reactor the fuel is near to its most active state and there is no way in which the nuclear assembly can go supercritical and explode like a nuclear weapon ( Coggle , 1983 ) .
29 Having examined the practice in different common law jurisdictions , their Lordships consider that the principles endorsed by the Jamaican Court of Appeal , particularly with regard to inconsistent previous statements , represent what will normally be an acceptable way of achieving fairness to the accused and they take the opportunity of saying that in a civilised community the most suitable ways of achieving such fairness ( which should not be immutable and require to be reconsidered from time to time ) are best left to , and devised by , the legislature , the executive and the judiciary which serve that community and are familiar with its problems .
30 In the parliament of 1371 two Austin friars argued that in a national emergency the prince who has endowed the churches may resume their property for the good of the realm ; about this time Langland was enlarging in Piers Plowman upon Holy Poverty , as were so many friars in their sermons ; before the end of the reign Wyclif , spokesman for Gaunt , especially against his wealthy political enemy , Bishop Wykeham of Winchester , was denying the right of priests to hold any property .
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