Example sentences of "[det] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested above that where the true owner of goods can not be involved in the proceedings the common law rule that a mere possessory interest entitles the plaintiff to recover the full value of the goods against a wrongdoer still applies . |
| 2 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 3 | And essay , write an essay on this , that or the next thing , at the weekend . |
| 4 | Where the parenthetical term in ( 7–38 ) is positive ( sufficient conditions for which are that or the gross factor price of capital in the corporate sector rises ( falls ) , and this increases the equilibrium firm size where fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive ( ) . |
| 5 | There is a fuel advisory service , I wonder if they call themselves that or the British fuel advisory service or something ghastly . |
| 6 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 7 | The new work also involved the construction of a road over a quarter of a mile long but no unexpected difficulties were experienced , either with this or the realigned route of the railway . |
| 8 | The British government 's decision to upgrade its Polaris weapons by replacing them with much more powerful Tridents introduced a further tension , since it was unclear whether this or the French deterrent would be included in general East-West agreements . |
| 9 | Is this where the earlier distinction returns : that ‘ art ’ depends on conscious performance ? |
| 10 | It has a very local feel with its sandstone dressings , and is rendered in rough cast , a common practice in areas like this where the Silurian stone was weak . |
| 11 | It was on idiocies like this that the frail sisterhood thrived . |
| 12 | Libet concluded from this that the subjective experience was occurring before the neural events which bought it about . |
| 13 | Consumption financed from government transfers ( pensions etc. ) rose from 5 per cent of GDP in 1952 to 10 per cent in 1973 , and it was partly to pay for this that the average proportion of incomes taken by direct taxation rose from 16 per cent in 1952 to 22 per cent in 1973 . |
| 14 | It was probably as a result of this that the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury was impelled to describe his manners as being ‘ thus polished from the rust of Scottish barbarity ’ . |
| 15 | The leaders of the labour movement concluded from this that the British government had a responsibility to defend democracy against fascism and were increasingly bitter about the apparent indifference or even acceptance which characterized the response of many Conservatives to dictatorship in central Europe . |
| 16 | So intense was this that the Chinese hierarchy , anxious to preserve the established order , found it necessary to restrain competitive display of grave goods by sumptuary regulation . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 18 | It is only after this that the supporting role of outside sympathisers can be useful . |
| 19 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 20 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 21 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 22 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 23 | No doubt they were helped by the government 's needs for revenue in the period of the wars against Louis XIV , but neither this nor the nominal prohibition of textile imports from India in 1720 caused the Company or the Indian textile trade much trouble . |
| 24 | Most elderly people find that the visiting officers are friendly , patient , and helpful , and although it is not necessary for a relative to be present , no objection will be raised to this if the elderly person wishes it . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) If a party wants a definitive ruling from the Panel executive , it will usually only give this if the other party to the takeover has been consulted ( which itself is often conducted by telephone ) . |
| 26 | In the event , a ) turns out to be peculiar insofar as this if the fourth time Eszterhas has reworked the basic theme of Jagged Edge ( see Betrayed and Music Box ) , of an authority figure hero suspecting that one of their nearest and dearest is responsible for appalling crimes . |
| 27 | The difference between this and the total hardness then gives the magnesium content . |
| 28 | However , the absence of any immediate military threat enabled him to reduce naval expenditure in this and the succeeding Budget , thus leaving a small amount of revenue available for social expenditure . |
| 29 | I did this and the actual conductivity reading come out at one thousand . |
| 30 | As we saw earlier , in this and the first chapter , this theory holds that things are a combination of form and matter , and it is by appeal to their form that one would hope to explain why things have the properties they do . |