Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a stunning performance , and certainly one of the finest that the league has ever produced . |
2 | The least that the Government should do when designing the legislation is to address the needs of women bus users . |
3 | It is not the most that could be done to protect the consumer , but the least that the Government thought that they could get away with . |
4 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
5 | It was under Somes 's sole ownership in the 1830s that the firm rose to become the largest in England . |
6 | It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a teaching laboratory became at all general ; at Durham University then , for example , laboratory instruction was still an optional extra , to be paid for if taken . |
7 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
8 | It was not until the 1890s that the railway companies themselves entered the promotional market . |
9 | If the answer turns out to be by a ‘ dock identification ’ ( i.e. the witness is identified for the first time in court ) then it must be remembered that this procedure is potentially so unfair to the accused that the court of trial retains a discretion to prevent it ( Horsham JJ. , ex p . |
10 | A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception . |
11 | The worst that the animal suffers is the after-effects of the anaesthetic from a dart gun . |
12 | Details such as these reinforce the ideal that the object before the viewer is a record of an actual and sustained encounter between the artist and the model , as opposed to being drawn from the artist 's imagination or from reproductions . |
13 | It was not primarily from the left that the groundswell of absolute pacifism emerged in the later 1930s . |
14 | However , it was not only on the Left that the search for radical solutions was being pursued . |
15 | Whereas Arthur Rank could argue in the 1940s that the diversity of production activity within the company eliminated the dangers of monopoly , Davis did away with alternative centres of initiative . |
16 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
17 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
18 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
19 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
20 | It was not until the 1970s that the use of polyethylene terephthalate as a polymer for the rigid packaging market began , but since then its growth has been explosive . |
21 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
22 | Bishop Rathier of Verona wrote in the 930s that the church was one in all its bishops ; that not Jerusalem , not Rome , not Alexandria , had received a special prerogative of rule to the exclusion of others ( he tucks Rome pointedly into the middle ) . |
23 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
24 | I also believe that the manner of Senor di Meana 's intervention demonstrated to the full that the Government are right to stress the principle of subsidiarity which holds that the Commission should not become involved in matters that can more effectively be dealt with by member states . |
25 | It was in the 1370s that the balance of the economy was seriously altered ; from 1372 there was a fall in basic food prices but no drop in wages , and this continued for some years , putting pressure on the profit margins which the manorial lords could secure from their estates ( 60 ) . |
26 | Where Her Majesty 's Government is dealing with the foreign government on a normal government to government basis as the government of the relevant foreign state , it is unlikely in the extreme that the inference that the foreign government is the government of that state will be capable of being rebutted and questions of public policy and considerations of the interrelationship of the judicial and executive arms of government may be paramount : see The Arantzazu Mendi [ 1939 ] A.C. 256 , 264 and Gur Corporation v. Trust Bank of Africa Ltd. [ 1987 ] Q.B . |
27 | Of course , some may in the early years have argued plausibly that the payments would rid England of the raiders for good , for it need not have been evident in the 990s that the problem would intensify as it did . |
28 | During the 1960s these two sea-adventures were republished for young readers in Penguin 's Puffin division ; there was more confidence then than there seems to be in the eighties that the accessibility of Masefield 's story lines and his energetic prose would justify offering to capable readers in the early and mid-teens novels written for adults . |
29 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
30 | The earlier charters after 1135 gave rights to the latter but it was not until the 1220s that the authority of the episcopal servants was finally replaced by elected bailiffs , soon to become the mayors . |