Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an accused faces a number of charges , it is very common for the defence advocate to offer a reduced plea to a number of the charges , provided others , often more serious ones , are dropped . |
| 2 | Cheney 's decision to cancel rather than rescue the stricken programme was also widely interpreted as an attempt by the Defence Department to repudiate the long-standing convention that defence contractors could enter into unrealistic contracts confident that the government would make good any losses suffered in cases other than fraud or gross mismanagement . |
| 3 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 4 | Similarly , including current cost accounts marks a shift towards an entity view because there the income statement shows the current cost profit after maintaining the operating capability of the business as a whole , as well as current cost profit attributable to shareholders . |
| 5 | The majority team has an automatic resistance to being displaced , simply by virtue of being in the majority . |
| 6 | The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa . |
| 7 | However , the WPA was persuaded to give up its seat to the PPP , as did the TUF ; in return the PPP , which as the majority party had the constitutional right to determine the two NCLDO seats , allocated one to itself and the other to the WPA ; the final distribution of Assembly seats was PPP 35 , PNC 27 , WPA 2 , TUF 1 . |
| 8 | Most Tory MPs are determined to maintain the tradition that the majority party nominates the new Speaker when the position becomes vacant . |
| 9 | The backlash within the majority population took a different path . |
| 10 | In a Note of Reservation , however , two members of the Majority Report took the opposite view : |
| 11 | The Group of Rio originated from the Contadora group seeking a Central American peace formula in 1984-85 [ see pp. 34032-33 ] , subsequently evolving into a permanent forum to discuss inter-regional affairs . |
| 12 | Each of the PCR products was sequenced either directly with specific oligonucleotides as sequencing primers using 32 P-dATP or subcloned into pCR-1000 vector ( Invitrogen ) and the plasmid DNA containing the different inserts from each of the PCR analysis were sequenced using M13 forward and reverse primers or specific primers as described above . |
| 13 | Peter Thorburn , the other new face on the All Black panel , has been given the bread-and-butter jobs , while the Mains-Kirton tandem takes the top side . |
| 14 | The Taylor Report recommended a strong role for the governing board in keeping the school 's activities under review ; a position backed by the Education , Science and Arts Committee ( 1981 ) of the House of Commons , and as indicated subsequently incorporated into legislation . |
| 15 | When Cripps had abandoned the Unity Campaign to support the Labour Party 's Immediate Programme his action had been fully endorsed by the Communist Party . |
| 16 | If the guitar player has a certain patch on his FX which he 's happy with , and which he wrote the song around , I 'm quite happy for that to be put down as it is . |
| 17 | The entry of Alain Prost into the McLaren equation galvanized the whole team , and Niki as well . |
| 18 | Painting , architecture ( as its most pure ) , and literature have a definitive form or text , and although the same can be said of drama whilst it remains on the printed page , its conversion to the performing medium allows a great deal more flexibility than music ever can . |
| 19 | The banning procedure has a considerable political input , in the sense that both the district council and the Home Secretary act as controllers of the decision taken by the senior police officer . |
| 20 | The base component produces a deep structure tree . |
| 21 | The stabilizer scheme creates a common fund to which members contribute according to their turnover . |
| 22 | The Manor kitchen has an enormous Tudor fireplace with the original oak beam . |
| 23 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 24 | Under pentagastrin stimulation , taking all subjects together , the regression analysis showed a significant correlation between lyso platelet activating factor and acid , lyso platelet activating factor and pepsin , AAGPC and acid , AAGPC and pepsin ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 25 | As the regression analysis showed a significant correlation between platelet activating factor precursors and both acid and pepsin but no significant correlation between platelet activating factor precursors and NANA , we suggest that platelet activating factor precursors would not result from degraded gastric mucin . |
| 26 | The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful . |
| 27 | The Guide-lines Commission interpreted an ambiguous statutory injunction that it take correctional resources into ‘ substantial consideration ’ as a mandate that its guide-lines not increase prison population beyond existing capacity constraints ( Tonry 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The follow-up work carried out after the FAOR study involved an extensive fact-finding exercise , where a number of parallel investigations of real-world activity were undertaken to consider more precisely the effects of the proposed changes , in terms of data quantities , costs , staffing implications , and technical feasibility . |
| 29 | Whereas the FAOR team took a high-level global view of the departments and the CSSU , in the second phase all the filing systems were examined and quantified in fine detail , and existing problems and long-term needs were discussed with filing and branch clerks , and the potential customers of the system . |
| 30 | The Working-Set database contains the current units of work taken , by request of the lexicographer , from the Main Database . |