Example sentences of "[that] [prep] a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get |
| 2 | The fact was that for a single man the job offered almost half the sum allotted to a couple . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I was happy enough with The Big Wheel apart from the fact that as a nine piece the bloody band nearly bankrupted me ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 9 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 17 | This grant is subject to considerable change at present owing to alterations in the HEFCE funding arrangements for universities , but it is hoped that within a few years the total income will rise to new levels . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So Norris suggests that in a Bottle-nosed dolphin the sonar clicks are produced just below the level of this blow-hole . |
| 24 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Adam Smith and subsequent writers have shown that in a competitive economy the pursuit of self interest can lead to an outcome which society would view as efficient . |
| 29 | In a paragraph whose subtitle , ‘ City , City ’ , harks back to The Waste Land , he expressed astonishment that in an economic slump the City was pulling down buildings to erect ever more splendid banks . |
| 30 | The amount of traffic on the route ( see appendix D ) never increased following the improvements at Foxton , so that in an economic sense the lift from the start was required to perform in a situation where it was not needed . |