Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its not necessary the vehicles that are in the wrong its the people who drive them who are in the wrong |
| 2 | Some charities failed to make clear who the report was aimed at and ran too many pages of tightly packed detail . |
| 3 | And if the under-sheet is rotated the opposite way to the top one the patient need not even get out . |
| 4 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 5 | So far , it is only clear what the proposals do not contain . |
| 6 | It is not clear what the Court meant by this . |
| 7 | If we pretend there can be law when it is not clear what the law is , we will lose sight of the intimate connection between law and fair warning , and our politics will be less just in the future . |
| 8 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 9 | This support will become more readily available from parallel functions such as accounts , or selling or marketing or production or research , if all of you are crystal clear what the objective is . |
| 10 | Nor is it really clear what the documents tell us . |
| 11 | It is not clear what the standing rule is for hybrid actions brought by way of writ or originating summons . |
| 12 | This idea is worth looking at , but it is not clear what the DTI would do with the information . |
| 13 | In the real world there is never a movement from the one to the other , and it is correspondingly less clear what the implications for both allocative and X-efficiency are . |
| 14 | While it is clear what the publishers stand to gain by investing both money and effort in ensuring that their key titles are on the shelves at all times , there might be more reluctance on the part of the booksellers to accept this encroachment onto their territory . |
| 15 | Similar tests were devised for white-collar jobs by applying for advertised posts by letter in the name of fictitious black and white applicants , again with similar qualifications , but making clear what the applicants ' ethnic origins were . |
| 16 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 17 | First the chairman must be quite clear what the objectives of the company are . |
| 18 | The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman should not misrepresent what the Government have said and are doing . |
| 20 | Paragraph six , detailed what the Secretary of State of the Environment is asking the staff commission to advise him on , and paragraph seven , gives some details of a circular which the staff commission has already put put out , which for the moment at least , really more applies to other authorities such as Cleveland , who are now , or the Isle of Wight , who are now in to this particular situation . |
| 21 | Yet another room beyond contained what the sergeant called ‘ all mod con ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Stations were to the British what the motte and bailey and great stone keeps were to the Normans . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 24 | In speaking of the works of others I referred to that disposition to be dissatisfied which the public have sometimes with and often without reason evinced . |
| 25 | Those who have Rights of Common would receive an Equivalent for those Rights ; and even the Cottagers living on the Borders of the Forest , who , by our Information , at present waste their Time in pilfering in the Woods , would find useful Employment , from the Demand for Labour which the Inclosure and Improvement of the Wastes would create , and might perhaps be led to Habits of Industry . |
| 26 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 27 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 28 | Not that Both would ever admit to bowling a straight one the ball he produced to finally get rid of was a gem and it turned the match away from India . |
| 29 | None the less , it is necessary to make explicit what the state , government and administration are , and what they do . |
| 30 | Our approach to theories of international relations will be based on a distinction between system and units , and will make central what the literature calls ‘ the level-of-analysis problem ’ . |