Example sentences of "the [noun] [is] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this . |
| 2 | Distinguishing Rex v. Clarke , 22 Cr.App.R. 58 and Reg. v. Hall , 43 Cr.App.R. 29 , Shelley J.A. , delivering the judgment of the court , observed that the defence is entitled to see such a statement , not by virtue of any general rule of law , but by virtue of the prosecution 's duty to inform the defence of statements in their possession made by a witness whose evidence at the trial differs substantially from what has been said in the statements . |
| 3 | The Board is happy to commend this work to the church and directs the church 's attention to the contemporary statement of the Christian ideal of the family contained within that report . |
| 4 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 5 | The stage arrives when the beginner is ready to put all his basic techniques together . |
| 6 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 7 | If the seller fails to collect goods which the buyer has rightly rejected and as a result the buyer reasonably incurs storage expenses , the buyer is entitled to claim those expenses from the seller as damages for breach of contract , Kolfor Plant Ltd. v. Tilbury Plant Ltd. ( 1977 Q.B. ) . |
| 8 | The Hispanic fanfare over the World Fair in Seville and the 500th anniversary of Columbus ' trip to the Caribbean is flag-waving to disguise this gigantic and painful modernisation project undertaken by González . |
| 9 | The male is able to detect this sound with an eardrum at the base of his antennae , which vibrate in sympathy with this one frequency , and so fly towards her . |
| 10 | PAYMENT FOR ARTICLES Payments or offers of payment for stories , pictures or information should not be made to witnesses or potential witnesses in current criminal proceedings or to people engaged in crime or their associates except where the material concerned ought to be published in the public interest , and the payment is necessary to enable this to be done . |
| 11 | The details also give a home number to contact at the evenings and weekends essential if the story is likely to have any national significance . |
| 12 | . Senior Buckingham Palace aid confirmed last night the Duchess is entitled to claim half the sum now contained in that fund . |
| 13 | The Bundesbank is due to meet this morning , and the cost of borrowing is likely to remain unchanged to keep a lid on the German economy . |
| 14 | The Association is pleased to continue this work to maintain these close ties for the benefit of the Royal Air Force ‘ family ’ . |
| 15 | The Association is eager to recruit more shareholders and ordinary members to facilitate this . |
| 16 | The term is supposed to encompass any intentional change in the perceptual input . |
| 17 | The KGB is unlikely to reveal such sensitive information as who the Oxford ring members were . |
| 18 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ Nomination ’ is the process whereby the client chooses a subcontractor to carry out specialist works under a building contract and where the contractor is obliged to employ that subcontractor . |
| 20 | It might help in advance to give certain additional information to each of the three groups independently of the others ( see above section on small group work ) : perhaps the Pied Piper is prepared to let the children free if s/he can get a good deal ; perhaps the mayor is unwilling to use any public funds to buy off the Piper . |
| 21 | ‘ The Mayor is desperate to attract more money — not give it away to things like the US Open , which is more than able to take care of itself ’ , he said . |
| 22 | When release ceases , probably owing to a negative feedback effect of calcium , recovery occurs as calcium is pumped out of the cytoplasm ( by pumps on the plasma membrane and internal stores ) and the cell is ready to begin another cycle . |
| 23 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 24 | By linking the system through a standard telephone wire , the management is able to control all operations from a centrally located computer . |
| 25 | The council is prepared to accept this small loss of under-used parking space to secure employment opportunities the proposed development will bring to Darlington . |
| 26 | As suggested in earlier editions of this book , a defendant does not fall within either category ( a ) or ( c ) solely because the MIB is obliged to meet any unsatisfied judgment which the plaintiff may obtain against him ( Powney v Coxage ( 1988 ) The Times , 8 March ) . |
| 27 | The judge is free to impose any sentence and can send the convicted individual to prison or hospital . |
| 28 | If the convenor is willing to accept this and I 'm aware of the time , if anybody wishes to strongly speak to a new point or a new angle on this matter , I 'd really prefer to call on the convenor to sum up . |
| 29 | The only cost involved may be that of advertising the property and , even if the diocese is reluctant to do this , it should be persuaded it is worthwhile . |
| 30 | However , the directive is likely to remove any real distinction between personal data held on paper and on electronic systems . |