Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the income arises in the underlying company it is felt that , on a proper reading of TA 1988 , s231(1) and ( 4 ) , the income will be assessed upon the UK settlor under s739 and he will be entitled to a tax credit . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , once in recovery , the opportunity remains for the recovering person to extend his or her range of physical abstinence and , by doing this , the relapse rate may in time come to be less than at present . |
| 3 | Hot water from the boiler passes through the hot cylinder , and heats up stored water that is then fed to the hot taps . |
| 4 | The distribution of the isotope shifts among the various bands gives independent evidence about the force field , which is assumed to be invariant , while the mass-dependent kinetic energy terms alter . |
| 5 | Canary set out to purchase the base airframes for the planned conversions and marginally flyable Texans and Vibrators were collected from across North America and ferried to the modification headquarters at Long Beach , California . |
| 6 | If your employer tells you that you can be relocated elsewhere within the business , there should be no question of dismissal if the change falls within the existing terms of your employment . |
| 7 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 8 | The shirt comes in the usual varied rohan colour range — the colour ( in the case of my turquoise shirt ) is safe after a few washes , and there is a short-sleeved version available for £22 . |
| 9 | On the death of father or mother the guardianship devolves on the surviving spouse ; but either can by deed or will appoint guardians to act with the survivor . |
| 10 | As the driving weight causes the drum to rotate , the mercury is raised until it counter-balances the weight , which can then fall slowly as the mercury flows through the dividing walls . |
| 11 | As the joystick tilts away from the vertical the mercury flows in the chosen direction and makes one or more electrical contacts , just as though a switch had closed . |
| 12 | Section 9 of the UCTA provides for the partial abolition of the doctrine of fundamental breach in relation to contract terms which have to satisfy the element of reasonableness under the UCTA , such as exclusion clauses governed by s 3 . |
| 13 | This principle is questionable when it comes to more opaque varieties of literary language , where the writer tends towards the innovative techniques of poetry . |
| 14 | The writer works at the impossible task of creating a poem , a narrative , which tries to narrow the gap between the signal and what is signalled : tries to reverse the separation between the world and what we write about the world . |
| 15 | The pathos lies in the characteristic early English understatement — ‘ so seldom ’ means ‘ never ’ or worse still ‘ just this once ’ — and also in the last phrase 's suspense between precision and vagueness . |
| 16 | Between the accession of Clovis in 481 and and the acquisition of Provence in 537 the Merovingians had established one of the most powerful of the successor states to the Roman Empire . |
| 17 | The North Atlantic Co-operation Council ( NACC ) , comprising the members of NATO and the former Warsaw Pact ( including the successor states to the Soviet Union ) , held its third meeting in Oslo on June 5 [ for earlier meetings see pp. 38698-99 ; 38841 ) , discussing security issues including nuclear and conventional arms and regional conflicts . |
| 18 | Twenty-nine countries — members of the North Atlantic Treaty organization ( NATO ) and the former Warsaw Pact , including the successor states to the Soviet Union — on June 5 signed a revised Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) , which provided for sharp reductions in conventional weaponry and troop levels in Europe . |
| 19 | Five of the successor states in the former Soviet Union are wracked by bitter ethnic civil war and rebellion . |
| 20 | This step was welcomed by the Cinematograph Times , which could not resist pointing out that ‘ much of the criticism directed against the art expressed in the cinema originates from the small class not yet accustomed to modern outlook ’ who assumes ‘ that no art can exist or progress that does not begin with their patronage ’ and ‘ who do not yet appreciate that the masses today are fully competent to judge and to give expression to their own tastes ’ . |
| 21 | In molluscs , the direction of coiling of the shell corresponds with the spiral arrangement of the cleavage . |
| 22 | Probably the most effective and most common scoring technique in karate is the gyaku-zuki , or reverse punch , which the beginner learns in the second week of his basic training , and provides a good illustration of the need constantly to return to practising the basics . |
| 23 | Broadly , if the courts believe the authority would still have granted the consent if they had known that they could not have imposed the condition in question , the permission stands without the offending condition , but if the answer is that they probably would not , then the permission itself falls . |
| 24 | When for once the tide runs in the reverse direction we get a new view of our own cookery , and a revealing insight into the oddness of traditional names as they appear in another language . |
| 25 | It is not suggested that the money belongs to the former regime of Siad Barre , nor that it is the property of a government or governmental agency rather than state property belonging to the Republic . |
| 26 | The money comes from the wealthy Moslem community in the south of the country . |
| 27 | The case relates to the 58-acre Brio Superfund dump , 20 miles southeast of Houston . |
| 28 | The importance of the case lies in the general discussion of the principles of natural justice , especially that given by Lord Reid . |
| 29 | The ruling makes it all but certain that Britain will be found guilty on charges relating to these matters when the case comes before the European Court later this year . |
| 30 | If the Commission regards the complaint as validly demonstrating a breach of the Convention it reports to that effect , and the case proceeds to the European Court of Human Rights unless it is solved in the meantime . |