Example sentences of "[det] [subord] 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 | Is this where the earlier distinction returns : that ‘ art ’ depends on conscious performance ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 11 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 12 | Some authorities have suggested a change in diet for such cats , but there seems little logic in this unless the new diet helps to reduce boredom . |
| 13 | We can do this because the private universe that we inhabit for much of the time is characterised by a philosophy of personal freedom and private choice . |
| 14 | I mention this because the annual list detailing the working year of the Royals is published this week . |
| 15 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 16 | unc These are equivalent , but the rule does not prove this because the left hand program is finite but is not weaker than any finite syntactic approximation to the right hand program . |
| 17 | Rogers produced a flask that had belonged to Church , and they circulated this while the appalling display went on. , |
| 18 | However , an attempt may be made to allocate particular bits or groups of bits in the operation code field to particular features of the instruction ; one bit , for example , might specify whether the result of an operation is to be placed in the accumulator , and another whether the fixed-point arithmetic unit is to be used by the operation . |
| 19 | He can do this whether the interim payment was voluntary or under Order . |
| 20 | Expressing this as the differential equation leads to the equation of motion of a Maxwell unit |
| 21 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 22 | The rule of thumb is this when the first cluster of bubbles is fully formed , sweep them away with a bird 's wing feather . |
| 23 | To prevent collusion between employer and employee , the local authority is not obliged to do this when the tied cottager is still employed by the farmer ( who could otherwise obtain a council house for the tenant by threatening to terminate his employment ) . |
| 24 | A single gene may be responsible in that although the identical twin concordance rate is only 40–50 per cent , there has been some suggestion that the other twin often has some schizoid features of personality which may be the same disease in a much milder form ( Emery , 1975 ) . |
| 25 | There 's less fun in that than the Ideal Home mail order offer to pamper your bottom , at least if you 're a cyclist . |
| 26 | Foucault emphasizes that his work does not lay claim to universal or general categories , nor is it even homogeneous , a presupposition that , as he has shown , has less to do with the work as such than the critical construction of its ‘ author ’ . |
| 27 | It 's not so much because the Royal Family is out there , but because you are in front of so many of your peers . |
| 28 | Let us recap : intellectually and in terms of technical content town planning had not advanced all that much since the remarkable flowering of the early years of the century . |
| 29 | Incidentally , I have plenty of pocket money , as the Chinese have been very generous , and I gather have given us almost twice as much as the average wage for a Chinese university or Institute teacher — which is absurd in a way , since all our food and accommodation ( as well as free transport and haircuts ! ) are found for us . |
| 30 | It was calculated that the United States was using up eighteen tons of raw material per head of population per year , or ten times as much as the average citizen of the rest of the non-Communist world . |