Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 2 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 3 | I note that the C E C is opposing this , but I feel that maybe they 've missed the points and the branch should actually take some responsibility for this because the wording could be better , we concede that point . |
| 4 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 5 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
| 6 | Channel 4 had no remedy at all when the judge at the Official Secrets trial of Clive Ponting issued an order banning the television station from using actors to read each evening from the day 's transcripts of this controversial trial . |
| 7 | If the red light starts to flash whilst in operation , the battery has less than 5% life left , and there is no light at all when the battery is completely flat . |
| 8 | Not only has British school librarianship no very long tradition of multimedia interest ( Shrewsbury School in 1578 notwithstanding ) , there is not even a very secure tradition of school librarianship at all until the post- I 945 era , despite the admirable work of many grammar school teachers in the 19305 . |
| 9 | I thought to myself , ‘ I fancy a bit of that if the chance ever comes up ’ . |
| 10 | What the first bit of that cos the thing in your mouth . |
| 11 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 12 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 13 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
| 14 | so I 've decided I 'm going to do erm something called Sunshine Chicken , which is just chicken e , chicken casserole , a bit different , she does n't drink alcohol so I ca n't do anything in wine , erm so I 'm doing that , I 'm doing four portions of chicken of that cos the daughter eats chicken , erm |
| 15 | That will certainly mean a slightly smaller , lighter car with an engine of less than the present 6.75 litres . |
| 16 | Last week , NASA 's engineers in Florida replaced the $30 million leaking engine with another as the shuttle stood on the launch pad . |
| 17 | ‘ Anyone could come up with a story like that once the proof has been destroyed . |
| 18 | it 's the person in the post as much as the post itself th th that |
| 19 | There is a particular need for this if the school programme concentrates on reading-scheme materials that do not offer the narrative , emotional , or language rewards of ‘ real ’ books . |
| 20 | A FAMILY of four can enjoy a healthy diet for less than the Government 's estimated £10 a person a week , according to a new recipe booklet from The Sugar Bureau . |
| 21 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 22 | Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground . |
| 23 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 24 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 25 | gon na take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job , that do n't make good business sense . |
| 26 | He sank down , head awhirl with more than the knock . |
| 27 | Second half , Platt went through on goal , Kuemann ( ? ) pulled him down it what was the most blatant professional foul I 've ever seen , and yet still remained on the pitch ( Graham Failure 's epo about this after the match was hilarious ) . |
| 28 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 29 | you see there 's clear evidence on that because the number of action plans that are completed |
| 30 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |