Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 From the consumer 's point of view , the drawback to the implied terms in the Sale of Goods Act is that only the buyer can sue the seller .
2 Initially the capacitor voltage is and therefore the phase voltage is , but this decays to as the capacitor discharges .
3 My contention is that both the justice and inhumanity of capitalist societies result inevitably from the failure to assert certain absolutes and so place proper limits on the use of freedom .
4 The contention is that today the margins have been squeezed out of PC sales .
5 The second reason for pressing the educational question is that only the largest of our national museums can afford to mount the kinds of ‘ spectacular ’ exhibitions cited two paragraphs back .
6 However , to use two sets of terms is to court confusion : unless the two categories of business are wholly separate , the likelihood is that eventually the wrong set will be used .
7 Er Madam Deputy Speaker , one of the difficulties addressed during the consultation exercise was that neither the term auditor , nor the phrase in his capacity as auditor , were defined in the banking statutory instrument or in the banking act itself and the government 's mindful of the need to clarify who it is who will be placed under a duty by the statutory instruments and in which circumstances the duty will apply and while this is ultimately a question for the courts , we take the view that the duty clearly covers any auditor of a bank appointed under U K company law .
8 The conclusion is that perhaps the Magharba , in the month or two before the report appeared , may have demanded bloodwealth from the government , or ( only slightly less plausible ) from the al-Qadhadhfa — the tribe to the east of Sirte , providing the command of the garrison there .
9 That group is nor only the group which has supported the US-led intervention against Iraq , it is also the group which effectively controls Gulf oil production and Opec .
10 The truth is that uphill the extra weight made it a little harder than walking , but the weight was not directly on my back , a fact that I appreciated .
11 It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be .
12 But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available !
13 But the new factor is that both the Serbian and the Croatian leadership have said that they are willing in principle to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force .
14 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
15 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
16 The drawback is that both the sender and the recipient , if living outside the US , are at the mercy of prevailing exchange rates and foreign banks may charge a commission .
17 The most important factor was whether all the crops were housed in the barn or whether some or all were kept in ricks in the fields , being moved to the barn for threshing .
18 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
19 The trouble is that both the product and the claims made for it are so unusual that it is impossible to predict whether it will disappear , never to be seen again , or become the biggest thing since MS-DOS .
20 The theory is that only the maternal chromosomes permit a viable egg to develop in the hybrid ; in the mule this is the horse set , while in the hinny it is the donkey .
21 He concluded : ‘ the cardinal rule of library stock control is that both the loan period and the duplication policy should be related to the level of demand for the title and to each other . ’
22 Could the implication be that today the Christian at work is quietly to put up with any kind of abuse or ill-treatment ?
23 The fundamental difference between the traditional novel and this the new novel is that now the style is analytical and psychological .
24 An important consequence of this approach is that generally the courts have refused to accept that supervening events ( ie events subsequent to the time of contract ) can render an initially reasonable covenant unenforceable .
25 Although he did not say so , the logic is that only the company itself would have a cause of action .
26 The implication was that only the retailers in each destination market would be permitted to vary prices according to local conditions .
27 The reason is that otherwise the surface charges would be in motion contrary to the assumption that a static equilibrium exists .
28 The difference between this and Helby v. Matthews is that here the customer was committed to making all the payments and therefore to acquiring ownership of the goods .
29 This torque overcomes the load torque and accelerates the system inertia or , expressed algebraically : For a motor with n phases and p rotor teeth the step length is and so the stepping rate is related to the rotor velocity by : Substituting Eqn .
30 Variscan folding and thrusting can , however , be seen north of the Midi Overthrust , and the general view of workers in the U.K. is that here the Variscan Front can not be identified with a single laterally-continuous thrust plane , though locally it may be ( Hancock 1983 ) .
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