Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is primarily achieved by taking his appointment out of the control of the executive and making his statutory responsibility that of reporting to the House of Commons . |
| 2 | It 's a well-founded faith he has developed since Michelin this year singled him out as the only French chef worthy of upgrading to the coveted three-star accolade . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that rule 21 of the Family Proceedings ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 required justices to give reasons and state their findings of fact on making orders under the Children Act 1989 ; that where a party appealed their order , justices could not remedy their failure to comply with rule 21 by supplying to the appellate court a more detailed statement of reasons and findings of fact ; and that , accordingly , the appellate court could only consider the reasons given by the justices at the time of the decision ( post , p. 527A–C , E–G ) . |
| 4 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 5 | It is also usual to include information about aspects of mobility such as getting around the house and coping with steps and stairs . |
| 6 | The consortium responsible for looking after the women 's housing and financial affairs , as well as providing some monitoring of the quality of service , had temporarily to reduce its operations because of staff shortages . |
| 7 | Many respondents , especially those answering ‘ no ’ , interpreted question 1 by focusing on the traditional model of sole practice , and appear to have answered on the assumption that support for any enforced modification of the present model would give rise to a negative response . |
| 8 | Last term , he took the Quakers into Division Three by storming to the fourth division championship . |
| 9 | For the Aplysia group , the first neurochemical task was to identify the transmitter involved in signalling between the two cells , which turned out to be the ubiquitous substance serotonin ( sometimes called 5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT ) . |
| 10 | Compared with Charity , he was a mere minnow capable of slipping through the net as easy as winking . |
| 11 | The love scenes between Stowe and Day-Lewis are vibrant and passionate with the kind of crackling screen chemistry reminiscent of Gone With The Wind 's Gable and Leigh . |
| 12 | Lazio 's manager , Dino Zoff , says that Gascoigne is all he needs to have a team capable of challenging for the title . |
| 13 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 14 | And if you 're going to use your stove in chilly conditions , you 'll need to pick a model which uses a fuel capable of coping with the cold . |
| 15 | Wycliffe awoke in his hotel bedroom with a sour taste in his mouth and a leaden feeling in his head due to drinking with the Captain the night before . |
| 16 | In addition to the splitting there has occurred some penetration of very thin plates of bone such as occur on the scapula ( Fig. 1.4N ) and some breakage of the borders of such bone ( the scapula illustrated here was not modified in any way before it was exposed for weathering ) . |
| 17 | ( f ) If , perhaps years later , your client sells the property now being bought , you 'll still find your notes on title helpful in deciding on the root of title , in preparing the draft contract , and in dealing with your buyer 's requisitions on title . |
| 18 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 19 | Kinnock did much to knock the Labour Party , if not into the 1990s , then at least into something resembling a political organisation capable of escaping from the 1970s . |
| 20 | LEFT : Priday 's complex , with a tanker ready for loading from the mill . |
| 21 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 22 | A complaint must be made in writing to a councillor of the authority concerned for forwarding to the commissioner , although the commissioner may consider a complaint direct if he is satisfied that a councillor has been requested to pass it on , and has failed to do so . |
| 23 | Importantly , Australia has impliedly conceded that the Nauruan people although a third party to the Trusteeship Agreement , formed a legal entity capable of relying on the Agreement in litigation occurring post-independence . |
| 24 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 25 | But co-operation over matters such as a futures rulebook and joint compliance have indicated the economies of scale possible in combining with the TSA 's 1,000 members . |
| 26 | A large mint such as operated under the Roman empire might well use more than one engraver , and consequently one may find more than one style of work in use contemporaneously and at the same place . |
| 27 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 28 | See the comment under clause 3.8 with regard to the limitation on the guarantee 's liability where the " Term " is not stated to include a statutory continuation of the tenancy . |
| 29 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 30 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |