Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing decided in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process ( post , p. 926F ) . |
| 2 | Certainly nothing that we decide in the present case is intended in the least degree to diminish the high importance rightly recognised to attach to the concept of the implied undertaking as a necessary way of underpinning the integrity of the discovery process . |
| 3 | Maj Gen F. Adam then wrote : ‘ … as the soldiers during the half year wear the white waistcoats and white duck trousers the red jackets might be saved once in three years . ’ |
| 4 | Early in the half Loughlins missed a good opportunity to level for the Swifts . |
| 5 | Stoddard Templeton is one of the few companies to become a Registered Firm under this scheme . |
| 6 | He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies . |
| 7 | Welsh House was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire . |
| 8 | According to figures made public in 1990 , it was one of the few republics to run a positive balance in its trade with other republics . |
| 9 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 10 | But the All Blacks managed a now-illegal ‘ goal from a mark ’ as the difference . |
| 11 | The All Blacks lost the first game against the World XV and then won the second easily — a non-contest , rather , as Olivier Roumat was sent off and the World XV backs had a no-tackling policy . |
| 12 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 13 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 14 | Put another way , the All Blacks have the whole nation behind them , and even Wales can not quite claim that . |
| 15 | THE ALL BLACKS begin the Irish leg of their 13-match tour at Lansdowne Road today against Leinster , who have never beaten a major touring side . |
| 16 | The latter type provided a wide central opening for vehicular traffic and two smaller side ones for pedestrians . |
| 17 | The latter film has a playing time of twenty minutes . |
| 18 | The latter company has an appalling record for its treatment of workers in South Africa and its behaviour in Namibia is little better . |
| 19 | In those cases where the figures from counties and boroughs have survived from both 1377 and 1381 , those for the latter year show an average fall of 32.54 per cent . |
| 20 | If we compare the traditional case with that of Modigliani and Miller with corporate taxes , it is clear that the latter position indicates a linear price decline while that of the traditional view suggests a more progressive decline . |
| 21 | To the latter question came a rambling reply which encompassed various themes : the economic , the scientific , the geographical , the touristic and , lastly , the ideological . |
| 22 | Crisp precast concrete slabs are teamed with brick , the latter helping to soften the overall surface . |
| 23 | I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ . |
| 24 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 25 | Without doubt , the latter development represents a secular change in the strategic environment of profound importance . |
| 26 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 27 | The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children . |
| 28 | Naturally enough , the latter group interpreted the first sentence appropriately but were unable to report what they heard through the unattended channel . |
| 29 | The latter specification defines a satisfactory product ; it is only when the product has undergone change to the extent that it no longer complies fully with the check or shelf-life specification that it has reached the end of its shelf-life . |
| 30 | The legal profession in England and Wales is divided into solicitors and barristers , with the latter being considered the senior branch of the profession . |