Example sentences of "the [noun] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The response of company law to that threat , and the response that a reformed company law might usefully make , will be considered in succeeding chapters .
2 Out on the warm-up track , around the tent that the medical staff had set up as our headquarters , everyone crowded round and there were handshakes and smiles .
3 Forte chief executive Rocco Forte , who was elected unopposed as first president of the BHRCA , told the AGM at London 's Inn on the Park that the new name ‘ is more appropriate for the challenges we will face in the future ’ .
4 Without the unity that the cold war gave to American foreign policy , every foreign crisis is going to be marked by unease , by a sense that the compass is wildly flapping around in its box .
5 ‘ Find me the most audacious of men ! ’ he ordered his Chief of Staff who , a few weeks later , diffidently informed the Prince that the notorious Major Sharpe was on the half-pay list and evidently unemployed .
6 Hugging the blackest shadows , all five mimers headed in the direction that the amputated Blood Drinker had outlined .
7 The delegates do not act in their personal capacity but carry out the policies and instructions of their government , as shown by the provision that an alternate delegate can be empowered to act and vote on behalf of a delegate who is absent .
8 Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES .
9 Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson described this submission as ‘ plainly ill founded ’ and said that it was ‘ no answer to the S.I.B . 's claim against the solicitors that an individual investor would have no right of action against the solicitors . ’
10 Charles Gray , president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , said disclosures in The Scotsman that the Scottish Office now accepted that costs and savings had been miscalculated demanded a rethink of the entire plan to move to single-tier councils .
11 In 1982 , Lloyd identified those needs and filled the vacuum by providing the first of the clubs that the 1990's tennis player — and his family — desired .
12 It emerged after the trial that the dead woman was the daughter of one of Britain 's top psychiatrists .
13 His own argument involved the admission that no common government , no common state , comprising both Great Britain and the colonies could subsist .
14 The master told the Board that a temporary porter was subject to fits , and after the unfortunate man had been interviewed by two of the guardians , he was made to resign .
15 The master reported to the Board that a young woman named Annie H. had been sent to the workhouse immediately after her confinement by her mistress , Miss M. , of Woburn Road , and the clerk to the Board was directed to call the attention of the lady to the serious risk incurred by her in so doing .
16 Even if there is no difference in time a narrow strait can so canalise the tide that a powerful current is developed .
17 We have concentrated the money that the hon. Gentleman would give to pensioners , whether they need it or not , into the income support rates of those who are worst off .
18 In Committee , it emerged that the Scottish Development Agency has been investing public money in the private operator Stagecoach to enable it to put together 15 million with which to buy some of the public assets involved in this privatisation The Minister said that the money that the Scottish Development Agency invested in Stagecoach was more than f65,000 , but less than £l million .
19 Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ?
20 I have not seen that report , but I have expressed before the dangers that a minimum wage policy would hold for employment levels .
21 That could also drive the country towards the dangers that the venerable Mr Likhachev foresees .
22 Turning now to the meat-eaters that the great grazers were running away from , we find some more fascinating convergences .
23 The government had rejected repeated appeals by the SPLA that the 300,000 civilians to be allowed to evacuate Juba .
24 It is probably true , its probably the case that every single person in the room is better placed to write this procedure then Jenny .
25 Indeed it is often the case that a powerful person is not necessarily somebody who is physically strong but will depend upon the extent to which that person can get others to do as he or she wishes .
26 Is it not the case that a similar figure would result from calculating seven years ' worth of tax relief for private medical insurance ?
27 In fact , if we look at a conversation like Conversation B or Conversation D , where all the participants are British-born and in their late teens or twenties , it is most often the case that a Creole utterance does not receive a Creole response .
28 Furthermore , apart from the fact that it is often unclear , as a matter of law , whether a decision is illegal or not ( and so it would be unsafe just to ignore it ) , it is not the case that a void decision is for ever void .
29 Yet often it can not have been the case that a recalcitrant trustee remained in possession of the property entrusted to him .
30 It is clearly the case that a great deal of everyday human interaction is characterised by the primarily interpersonal rather than the primarily transactional use of language .
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