Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 2 | New tees lurked in the trees on several holes , and were skilfully placed to bring into play the same hazards which threatened the club players from their tees . |
| 3 | It leaves hair in fabulous condition , with no perm odour and you can even wash your hair the same day , without affecting curl formation . |
| 4 | In a reported case the same year , Lorraine Agu and Malcolm Hirst were members of a group of animal rights supporters who were demonstrating slogans and distributing leaflets about animal rights on a spacious pedestrian precinct in Bradford . |
| 5 | In this case the same precautions apply and it is even more important to deal with ownership of copyright otherwise the agency ( as employer ) could turn out to be the ultimate owner of the copyright . |
| 6 | In each case the court seeks to assess and award damages that are equivalent to the loss sustained by the plaintiff — in each case the same heads of damage are recoverable and in each case similar deductions have to be made . |
| 7 | The Canine Defence League refuses to find new homes for abandoned animals until well after the holiday , in case the same dogs are given as presents and then dumped again . |
| 8 | In the pellets or scats of many of the predators the teeth are either not broken at all or have only suffered minor damage , and these are for the most part the same species for which little damage to the jaws is evident . |
| 9 | ‘ Its strength rests on a contrast between before and after ; and the deeper the contrast the more traffic the event . ’ |
| 10 | At the village level the same person generally handled police and revenue matters in Kandyan districts , while different officials performed these duties in the Low Country . |
| 11 | Chris , 42 , of Longsight , Manchester , said he was told by the driver the half gallon tin might spill . |
| 12 | The wording of the question is not the factor leading to difficulty the same wording used with whole numbers for criterion 1 e produced a success rate of over 80 per cent . |
| 13 | When you spend long periods studying the board the latter point becomes quite important . |
| 14 | And now those with a sense of adventure and sometimes a good pair of sea legs can join in the fun on board the former lifeboat . |
| 15 | After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea . |
| 16 | Using annual-change figures Champion ( 1983 , 1987 ) showed that the main decentralization process peaked in the early 1970s , and that by the time of the 1981 census the former pattern had to some extent reasserted itself . |
| 17 | ‘ When something 's wrong , abuse is not automatically on the checklist the same way that child abuse is ’ , said Jenkins . |
| 18 | This publication ( at p.29 ) gives the auditor the same mandate as that provided by Section 15 of the 1982 Act ( see above ) . |
| 19 | He knocked boldly on the door of this house , and there was a rustling , and creaking , and the door opened a tiny crack , and there stood a little man , with a face as grey as morning ashes , and a long woolly beard the same colour . |
| 20 | With luck you may effect a recapture the same day by one or other of the methods described . |
| 21 | Of course the more time available the better . |
| 22 | Then , a few months later quite by chance , of course the same painting came onto the market . ’ |
| 23 | F4 A minimum of two of your crew are fit and active and both will have completed a Fal Sail ‘ Introduction to Yachting ’ course the same year you 're taking the holiday . |
| 24 | A taxi driver has the solution : " They should treat pirates and dogs on the course the same way , " he tells me . |
| 25 | This ability to form a mental map and then formulate behaviour ( perhaps by imagining various alternative scenarios ) seems very like the ability of chimpanzees to imagine the solution to the hanging-banana problem by stacking the boxes in their minds before performing the behaviour for real , and of course the same process goes on in our own minds all the time . |
| 26 | Those thoughts in themselves are sufficient to turn the occasion from a loving one into some sort of physical test — and of course the same thing happens again ; the man feels so tense and anxious that he is simply not able to perform sexually . |
| 27 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
| 28 | Is the training course the same thing as what John was on in as much he had to get through the training course to get a position ? |
| 29 | of course the same thing happens in Hatfield which is done within about a stones throw literally fifty yards of that field market and town centre and such like and it 's very unpopular . |
| 30 | They were given no votes or erm opportunities and of course the same thing will happen if and when the Parcelforce is sold off from the Post Office er there 's twenty thousand people there . |