Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there 's no excuse I all the jobs are quite quickly done are n't they ? |
| 2 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock suggested that in that case someone down the chain of distribution who suffers economic loss ( i.e. because he has to pay out damages for breach of contract ) , might well be able to claim indemnity direct from the negligent manufacturer under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson . |
| 3 | Fortescue saw what the problem was : the defence of English interests both on land and at sea , which needed to be acted upon with a speed which only the existence of some form of permanent naval force would allow . |
| 4 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 5 | As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow . |
| 6 | Having held a senior position in another school , the newcomer was in a position to add status to the library venture as well as filling the gap in management which both the head and deputy had identified . |
| 7 | Taken to its conclusion , this hypothesis prefigures the paradoxical consequence that the smaller business may find itself liable to pay compensation which only the larger business is realistically able to meet . |
| 8 | This poses the interesting question which only the future can resolve : how long can values survive without the beliefs which sustain them ? |
| 9 | But great lengths of the fence had been trampled down , and of the building itself only the smoke- blackened walls were still standing . |
| 10 | Mr Reilly has now embarked on a job which even the cynical Mr Darman should applaud . |
| 11 | He recalled the desire for leisure which even the most serious and industrious of workers experienced after a period of constant application , impelling them to " indulge in idleness " . |
| 12 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 13 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 14 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 15 | So what you 're doing is making assumptions about the population from which your samples were drawn , so therefore this is known as a parametric technique Nearly there Now , another interpretation of Pearson 's R , or the correlation coefficient generally , is variants If you square the correlation coefficient it equally the proportion of variants in X accounted for by Y. Now that is actually a very good measure of how good a correlation is . |
| 16 | VAG 's policy states that ‘ if you wish to do the [ removal ] job yourself then the company will meet the costs of van hire and petrol expenses ’ . |
| 17 | 3.2 Should the Company be prevented for any reason whatsoever from completing the Work in the time agreed in Schedule I then the Publisher after giving the Company reasonable notice may commission the completion of the Work by another writer on terms that the Publisher shall consider fair to all parties and the terms in Schedule II shall be altered accordingly or the Publisher may withdraw from the Agreement . |
| 18 | This , and the multiplication of that half-breed known as ministers of state , is a product of a political inflation which even the present Government has not attempted to control . |
| 19 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |
| 20 | Sharon Kreig and Jay Ardamal double-timed it up the footramp and into the waiting executive transporter . |
| 21 | It would not cost the Exchequer anything more the first year , because a 25 per cent . |
| 22 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 23 | Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones . |
| 24 | ‘ I think that the tendency of applied science is to magnify injustices until they become too intolerable to be borne , and the average man whom all the prophets and poets could not move , turns at last and extinguishes the evil at its source ’ . |
| 25 | The " kee " part is a courtship call at another frequency which only the females are sensitive to . |
| 26 | No spark of humour ( even of sanity ) was allowed to invade the hallowed Mixture as Before : Beauty , Knitting , Fashion , Cookery , Short Story , in embalmed vacuity , delivered from that pinnacle of self-righteousness which only the mediocre could sustain . |
| 27 | Two queers heel and toe it down the High , |
| 28 | ‘ Hand me up the other bottle . ’ |
| 29 | His other hand cupped her chin , tilting her face upwards so that there was no escape from the gaze that held her own , trapping her in a world which only the two of them knew . |
| 30 | But the delay was sufficient to postpone the encounter which both the Duke and Prince Charles — though not the latter 's generals — were seeking , though hostility to the retreating invaders was visibly growing . |