Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's probably no more pleasant than living at the centre of some large , dirty , crime-ridden city . |
| 32 | Though the next decade quickly reversed the conservatism of the 1950s , the notion that British fiction lacks experimental energy , or even just quality , still survives ; a partially accurate picture , based upon a lapse in the experimental tradition less complete than suggested at the time . |
| 33 | This was very much more simple than dealing with the naval officer . |
| 34 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |
| 35 | Sgt Paul Robinson said : ‘ These are dangerous if taken by the wrong people . |
| 36 | Old people , perhaps mentally infirm , who spit out food when it is given , or who lose the capacity to eat tidily and whose bowel and bladder functioning is impaired , may rouse deep feelings of revulsion in carers , of which they were quite unaware until confronted with the behaviour . |
| 37 | The body is perfectly straight while leaning into the attack , presenting the opponent with a limited area to strike . |
| 38 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 39 | The price must be clearly legible to a prospective purchaser and clearly identifiable as referring to the goods in question . |
| 40 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 41 | It 's called the unitary authority the new one would be and I think suggestion is that the city would go separate as opposed to the county . |
| 42 | This ambivalence towards public morality was crucial when set alongside the Unionists " extra-legal activities over Ireland . |
| 43 | A statutory demand under s 268 , Insolvency Act 1986 could not be made to recover tax payable as determined by the General Commissioner when the notice of that amount had not been served on the taxpayer at his usual or last known place of residence under s 115 , TMA 1970 , according to Chancery Division in Re a Debtor ( No 124/50/91 ) , Ex Parte the Debtor v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 888 . |
| 44 | In the course of the hearing , counsel for the Crown accepted that , if notice for the amounts payable as determined by the General Commissioners had not been served on the debtor , the tax had never become payable under s 55(a) , TMA 1970 and s 5 , TA 1988 . |
| 45 | The metalinguistic view remains in several ways odd and indeed unsuccessful when regarded in the more plausible way . |
| 46 | Several of the major accounts appeared to be excessively overdue when compared with the total ledger aged debt statistics . |
| 47 | I was somewhat less impressed by Demidenko in the smaller-scale pieces : his Rejoice beloved Christians sounds slow and bland when compared to the super-human wizardry of Frederic Chiu on his stunning début recital of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi , ( — a ‘ must ’ for all Busonians ) whilst the slower chorales on the Hyperion disc are given the visionary touch on MK by Tatiana Nikolayeva . |
| 48 | It is clearly too soon to measure the actual as opposed to the estimated economic pay-off . |
| 49 | And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive , why is n't it tending to disappear completely ? |
| 50 | Such deficiencies in the number and quality of rural houses were particularly serious when viewed in the context of the inter-war legislation . |
| 51 | Nitroxynil and levamisole are also very efficacious when given in the water . |
| 52 | Moreover , the principle of linguistic self-consciousness or reflexivity seems to be made even more explicit when transposed to the narrative model . |
| 53 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 54 | Also , because of his terrible sense of direction , he would get lost when hunting for the wrong things and Endill had to spend much of his time searching for him , almost getting lost himself . |
| 55 | Such views are held by economists who consider the beneficial effects of the threat of a takeover to be minimal when compared with the damaging effects of short termism . |
| 56 | In short , what is the mark of the moral as opposed to the immoral ? |
| 57 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 58 | Each group , then , must sound complete if played without the others , and the part-writing must in each case be smooth and correct . |
| 59 | Providing for exceptional and individual needs may be more costly than providing for the average needs of fairly homogeneous groups of pupils . |
| 60 | The tax on fossil fuels proposed by the European Commission would be less costly than paying for the damage caused by acid rain , according to a report by Greenpeace . |