Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negligence aspect of it , if somebody is negligent and does n't , for example , keep the engine oil topped up and they drive their vehicle until the engine seizes , in fairness it 's not the insurance company 's responsibility to put that right if the customer has been negligent , and I do n't think any reasonable person would ask us to do that in that situation . |
| 2 | How is this possible if the art of persuasion is such a highly skilled task ? |
| 3 | Or perhaps authority may come from some prestigious so the domain of the practitioner , as when techniques are recommended on the grounds that they have the warrant of proven theory . |
| 4 | The horseman was very particular about his harness and was as much concerned as the farmer to keep it in good order , making frequent visits to the saddler or harness-maker who had his shop in most of the larger villages . |
| 5 | Many deserted before the battle even started , and a number of nobles surrendered as soon as they could decently do so . |
| 6 | It is not at all clear whether the failure of a Local Authority to prevent one of its teachers from teaching the acceptability of homosexuality would be construed as promotion by the Local Authority itself . |
| 7 | It is not at all clear when the money stented for the repair of the bridges and the enclosing of the churchyards was paid and the work completed . |
| 8 | I would not be at all surprised if the story had been put out by Goreng or his superiors . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't be at all surprised if the road from here to the slopes is blocked by tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 10 | And I was n't at all surprised when the jury took only an hour to find Waddell not guilty . |
| 11 | I do n't know what I think in view of what you say , Mary , go into to great detail as to what went wrong with this , erm because I can cut that short because the fact is that Russell eventually admitted that this programme simply was n't viable . |
| 12 | yeah but you 'll have one or two people more pro-active because the bulk of the job the three other people who will be there will be order-takers dealing with allocations and this sort of thing and you 'll need somebody to erm |
| 13 | To the liberal ‘ scientific ’ mind , there are two problems here of ‘ slippage ’ , one more slight than the other . |
| 14 | The common instinct for survival has shown itself more powerful than the urge to take risks on behalf of national interest . |
| 15 | You might care to discuss with your friends : ( i ) Is the word " rule " any more self-explanatory than the word " function " ? |
| 16 | So they actually bench marked the maintenance phase of the project and found this approach to be three hundred percent more productive than the approach we showed on the previous slide . |
| 17 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 18 | In addition , and as a result of the work undertaken by its resident tutors in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire , the Board had developed systematic provision of all types of classes and courses on a scale beyond that imaginable if the District had been the sole provider . |
| 19 | However , Saragossa could not be taken , despite the vast forces set against it and Charles decided to return to Aquitaine , having gained very little other than the defeat of the Basques after storming Pamplona . |
| 20 | And nothing will do that other than the head of the Government standing next to me saying : ‘ We will protect our citizens ’ . ’ |
| 21 | It feels most comfortable if the present merely repeats the past . |