Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found . |
| 2 | All this could be different if only the British people were allowed a real stake in the EC . |
| 3 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 4 | What precisely he could do about it was not immediately clear since even the Mamur Zapt 's writ did not normally extend to the domestic relationship between man and wife . |
| 5 | Over 50 people were killed in unrest across the country in the period Aug. 2-4 , although police said that it was not clear whether all the deaths were related to the strike . |
| 6 | The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements . |
| 7 | Presumably stray magnetic fields will not be that high as otherwise the efficiency of the motors would be low . |
| 8 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 9 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 10 | Although all that is required , where the new husband is acquiring the husband 's interest , is an assignment of the husband 's equitable interest , this is plainly impracticable as neither the new husband nor the wife will wish the husband to continue to have any interest at all in the property . |
| 11 | This is acceptable when only the family are around , but when we have guests , embarrassing situations can arise . |
| 12 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 13 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
| 14 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 15 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 16 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 17 | Shareholders will end up with a highly leveraged vehicle — which is fine if the group is going to thrive and win its franchise , but dangerous if either the group 's stream of advertising revenue or its franchise is under threat . |
| 18 | This disclaimer is not appropriate if either the report is an Investment Advertisement under the Financial Services Act 1986 or if the client itself authorised under the FSA . |
| 19 | This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered . |
| 20 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 21 | In some ways , dynamic recognition is more restrictive since both the writer and a suitable input device must be present at the same time , and the technique is evidently only applicable to handwritten text . |
| 22 | If we are to connect the small towns and other settlements which were provided with fortifications with the needs of provincial administration , then they should contain buildings identifiable as either the residences and offices of the local officials , or granaries and stores-buildings for the collection and security of taxes in kind . |
| 23 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 24 | A particularly difficult problem is the passage of fragments down the cystic duct ; provided these fragments pass into the common bile duct endoscopic sphincterotomy successfully manages the situation ( patient VII , XI ) , but if the stone remains in the cystic duct removal can be impossible as even the smallest scope or basket will not dislodge the stone ( patient XII ) . |
| 25 | In an isotropic space all geodesic surfaces at a single point have by definition identical Gaussian curvature : in a space that is homogeneous as well the curvature is the same everywhere . |
| 26 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 27 | If the competitor falls ill while abroad the book does not help . |
| 28 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |
| 29 | Furthermore a drop ’ in maintenance spending is also likely as both the landlord 's means and incentive to spend money on the property are reduced . |
| 30 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |