Example sentences of "the [noun] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some market makers quoted offer prices of shares in the index lower than bid prices , the opposite of normal market practice , and there were accusations that some market makers did not answer their phones , so that quotes were not accurate . |
| 2 | Much of the work in subject studies is taught by staff of faculties in the University other than Education . |
| 3 | Although his head office sent the branch all the goods sold by the branch in Year 41 , Mr Messy did not record how much was sent and kept no records at the branch other than branch sales . |
| 4 | This method has also shown that a similar pattern of damage was caused to the DNA in human cells for the complex 9 whereas damage to intracellular DNA was not detected for the complex 10 ( 9 ) . |
| 5 | Jeremy , who pays to play for two sides every weekend , handed over the £5 fine after club officials checked the meaning of the words . |
| 6 | The contention concerned whether quantum mechanics with its indeterminism and probabilistic element , was the most complete description of nature that could be attained . |
| 7 | Was the ware better than dung ? |
| 8 | In the same note he claims that , in some sense , he was ‘ more modern ’ than good Pope John ( he mentions his appearances at the Milan Fair as evidence ) ; and says ‘ perhaps our life is marked by love of our own time , of our world more clearly than by anything else ’ ( ibid . ) |
| 9 | And yet that is one of the youngster 's attractions , that as well as being a very good tennis prospect , she is also a girl who enjoys life and the things other than tennis that it has to offer . |
| 10 | It had made the day perfect when Gran paid for her and Adam to have a ride ; she could still remember the glorious whoosh to and fro , the sense of riding in the air like the wheeling gulls , the bitter disappointment when the woman in charge came to catch their swing boat and tell them their time was up . |
| 11 | Local authorities should begin with a general review of the area concerned before work on the scheme proceeded , when the essential elements would be established : use zoning , roads , reservations and preservation of trees and protection of woodlands . |
| 12 | The third point er relates to erm is the policy stricter than Government guidance ? |
| 13 | His lips brushed her eyelids , the kiss insubstantial as butterfly wings . |
| 14 | Another study by Luoma ( 1988 ) reports data for some details of the environment other than road signs , in particular houses , roadside advertisements and pedestrian crossing lines on the road . |
| 15 | Firefighters cut the man free as ambulance workers saved him from drowning after the accident in Teesdale . |
| 16 | A PRP scheme must contain provisions by which the amount distributable as PRP is determined . |
| 17 | In a development project there are usually prospects of increasing the information available as time goes on . |
| 18 | In a development project there are usually prospects of increasing the information available as time goes on . |
| 19 | Despite Smith 's editorial and Esmail and Everington 's short report the medical establishment in Britain will do little to correct the situation other than wonder how to find new barriers or regulations to stop the foreign sounding names appearing in applications before them . |
| 20 | This tree , though , was as beautiful as a miracle , for it was very tall , and bore leaves , flowers , and fruit , all at the same time ; the leaves were green as emerald , the flowers white as snow , and the pears fine , large , and glossy , big as your two fists put together . |
| 21 | If it was anywhere else in the book other than page two it would cost a thousand . |
| 22 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 23 | Some libraries want their own library group others are quite happy to be joined in with one or more libraries within the adjoining group and the constitution does in fact provide that investment wish what we have n't said what those who should be at maximum membership membership and to their claim will common sense not to make it too large otherwise it might turn out to be more than than sensible discussion among a reasonable amount of people but this but then to decide that equally to encourage them to ah find ways and means of the public other than library users who will be represented on the committee and to that . |
| 24 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |