Example sentences of "[that] the [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between materialist , scientific thought and idealist , ideological thought is that the former recognizes the determination of consciousness and so returns to an empirical or ‘ real ’ world of practical activity to generate abstractions . |
| 2 | The only difference between copper wire and air is that the former carries the current . |
| 3 | Second , a striking difference between the NCRA and the block exemption is that the former provides no immunity from prosecution , while the latter rules out prosecution ( at least for certain types of agreements ) for a limited period of time . |
| 4 | Much of this philanthropy was fuelled by religious conviction , especially by the realization of evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists that to save souls it was necessary first to remove the poverty which so consumed lives that the poor had no time for God . |
| 5 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |
| 6 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 7 | We need scarcely remind ourselves that the 1420s marked the nadir of French fortunes . |
| 8 | It should be noted that the 1970s saw a trend on the part of the ‘ nationals ’ to decentralize their operations by forming autonomous regional organizations and promoting regional brands . |
| 9 | Owens ( 1984 , 174 ) has commented that the 1970s saw a hiatus in recreation research as a period of evaluation replaced the previous period which had been characterized by : |
| 10 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 11 | Under Morris any assumption of any of the rights of the owner suffices , and there is no need to prove that the accused deprived the owner of anything . |
| 12 | Once it is shown that the deception caused the obtaining , there is no need to prove that the accused suffered a loss : Kovacs [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 370 ( CA ) . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal held that the accused had a duty to provide information as to the status of his patients . |
| 14 | Charles decided that the accused had the bank 's authority to draw the cheque so as to create a contract between the bank and the payee . |
| 15 | The fact that the accused gave no thought to the risk of someone being deceived does not square with the requirement that he obtained by a deception . |
| 16 | The matter is made worse by the fact that the two offences are construed as being mutually exclusive ; and the resulting difficulties are not entirely overcome by the provisions in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44 as to the verdicts open to the jury when they find that the accused committed an offence different from that charged ( cf. paragraph 90 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket . |
| 18 | Irish men — and women — not a few of them , but Cara had been long enough in Frizingley to know that the Irish had no monopoly on starvation , that good , solid Englishmen , handloom weavers , for instance , on the tramp for work and farm labourers from the south who had lost their farms due to land enclosures , could do it just as easily . |
| 19 | The Treaty of Rome , which established the Common Market , accelerated the already rapid growth of some members , so that the 1960s saw the emergence of a dynamic economy far stronger than the British , offering economies of scale in a consumer market of more than 200 million people . |
| 20 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 21 | The extent of the warranty of title implied at common law is that the possession given to the purchaser will be undisturbed by the vendor or auctioneer and that the latter knows no defect in the vendor 's title ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , they differ from substantive rules only in that the latter have no dictionary function . |
| 23 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 24 | The difference between the BSc and the BEng is that the latter includes a module on Professional Issues , and is recognised by the Engineering Council as satisfying part of the requirements for achieving Chartered Engineer status . |
| 25 | It is often asserted that the 1980s saw a polarization of two fundamentally opposed educational movements , multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 26 | The figures suggest that the 1980s saw an increase in income inequality and a strengthening of class divisions . |
| 27 | In this sense , our case studies support Piore and Sabel 's ( 1984 ) thesis that the 1980s constituted a transition period in business strategy , the end of ‘ Fordism ’ and scientific management as the dominant paradigms of work organization . |
| 28 | Certainly in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries no other kadilik approached the status of those of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne — none appears to have attained even the status achieved by Damascus and Aleppo in the sixteenth century — and it therefore seems fairly certain that the 300 akce a day given to the kadis of the three Ottoman capitals represented the highest allowances given to any kadi at that period . |
| 29 | Throughout the months since he had brought the word from Hannele , he had sometimes had the impression that the British viewed the escapade with distaste , embarrassment , that sat ill with its potential . |
| 30 | Though it is mistaken to suppose that the British made no effort to leave the Masai better than they found them , it is clear that their potential emergence from the colonial period much as they had entered it was something their administrators could in the end accept with equanimity . |