Example sentences of "that the [adj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | None in the end decided that the former outweighed the latter . |
| 2 | The difference between materialist , scientific thought and idealist , ideological thought is that the former recognizes the determination of consciousness and so returns to an empirical or ‘ real ’ world of practical activity to generate abstractions . |
| 3 | The only difference between copper wire and air is that the former carries the current . |
| 4 | Never mind that the former exceeds the latter by a factor of a thousand . |
| 5 | If the war is indeed costing the $500m a day that the Japanese say the Americans are estimating , then a 20% Japanese contribution would amount to around $3 billion a month . |
| 6 | He also suggests that the Japanese dominate the market partly because of their domestic need for a communications system which could accommodate an alphabet of some 2,000 characters . |
| 7 | Neil McKendrick has said of his " consumer revolution " that the rich led the way in the 1760s and 1770s with an " orgy of spending " on their magnificent houses . |
| 8 | We need scarcely remind ourselves that the 1420s marked the nadir of French fortunes . |
| 9 | The feminists pursue a romantic attempt to disconnect schooling from economic competition , and to resist the ‘ intelligenic marriage ’ , designed to ensure that the clever marry the clever to produce the clever . |
| 10 | The first idea is of a metaphorical and anthropomorphic kind , and the second and third also call out for analysis , if only for the reason that there are other non-causal pairs of things such that the first explains the second and the second depends on the first . |
| 11 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 12 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 13 | Under Morris any assumption of any of the rights of the owner suffices , and there is no need to prove that the accused deprived the owner of anything . |
| 14 | Charles decided that the accused had the bank 's authority to draw the cheque so as to create a contract between the bank and the payee . |
| 15 | It must be proved that the accused handled the goods " knowing or believing them to be stolen goods " and that he acted dishonestly . |
| 16 | ‘ Appropriates ’ is generally proved by a witness stating that the accused picked the property up or put it in a shopping bag or a pocket . |
| 17 | Who was it who said that the Irish took the English language and threw the words up in the air just to see how they all sparkled as they came tumbling down ? |
| 18 | The Treaty of Rome , which established the Common Market , accelerated the already rapid growth of some members , so that the 1960s saw the emergence of a dynamic economy far stronger than the British , offering economies of scale in a consumer market of more than 200 million people . |
| 19 | It was then that the ME-10 left the other unit standing . |
| 20 | Section 40(1) permits the court only to award compensation on an application made by the employee which inter alia establishes that the latter made the patented invention which is of outstanding benefit to the employer and that ‘ by reason of those facts it is just that the employee should be awarded compensation ’ . |
| 21 | The important difference between habituation and conditioning when it comes to context specificity appears to be that the latter involves the recall of associative information whereas habituation requires no more than the recognition of the stimulus as being familiar . |
| 22 | The format of a charter party bill of lading differs from that of a liner bill of lading in that the latter stipulates the terms of carriage of the goods on the bill of lading itself . |
| 23 | Evidently , there is more to our belief that the flipping caused the wipers to start to work than has so far been specified . |
| 24 | These two clauses could have been separated at " library " but the semi-colon indicates that they are linked and that the second explains the first . |
| 25 | At a time when important people wore swords as a matter of course , the assumption that the strong ruled the weak was natural enough . |
| 26 | Throughout the months since he had brought the word from Hannele , he had sometimes had the impression that the British viewed the escapade with distaste , embarrassment , that sat ill with its potential . |
| 27 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 28 | These points taken together suggest that the burnt-offering symbolized the worshipper 's homage and total dedication to God , in laying his hand on the animal he identified himself completely with the sacrifice . |
| 29 | The form starts by establishing that the haulier using the RHA conditions accepts goods for haulage only on the terms contained in those conditions . |
| 30 | It was after all from the Portuguese that the French took the hint about the rightness of fresh tomato sauce with eggs , fish and rice ; à la portugaise signifying , in French cookery , a dish in which the tomato figures . |