Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon is yours for further exploring , until a farewell dinner party during the evening . |
| 2 | In the event the money was nothing like enough because the new owners were able to force Ayling to pay for structural work which needed to be carried out to the upper part . |
| 3 | One part of this judgment is a moral question raised by the officer as to whether the case is one about which action ought not to be taken . |
| 4 | This is most apparent from the judgment of Lord Wilberforce who makes clearer than their remaining Lordships that the case is one about jurisdictional fact . |
| 5 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 6 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 7 | The Vice-Chancellor , Sir Donald Nicholls , said that the section gave the Court discretion in the widest sense , and in His Lordship 's view , the case was one in which a sale should be directed , even though there would be a deficiency . |
| 8 | VWAG argued that the case was one in which there was ‘ occasion to transmit a judicial document for service abroad ’ , because VWAG , which was not present in Illinois , would need , and was expected , to answer the allegations made against it . |
| 9 | Having reached that conclusion , their Lordships considered whether the case was one in which the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act might suitably be applied to uphold the conviction . |
| 10 | In fact , the atom is nothing like this ( for example , electrons are likely to be nothing more than ‘ confluences of probability waves ’ — in other words , totally incomprehensible in everyday terms ) , yet what do you think of when you think of an atom ? |
| 11 | So , er , what the description was there by the way , it 's not meant to be a description of the person . |
| 12 | As members of the RSPB the reserve was ours for free ; non-members were purchasing permits from ‘ reception ’ to gain admittance . |
| 13 | The sketch is one in a new six-part series of Alas Smith and Jones , to be screened in October . |
| 14 | If at the time the contract is made , the goods are ascertained ( i.e. identified and agreed upon ) , then the contract is one for the sale of specific goods . |
| 15 | The question for the courts was whether or not the decision was one at which the individual official could reasonably have arrived . |
| 16 | The Ministry is one for which Mr Toubon has long been prepared and in which he is determined to make a mark , despite the obvious difficulties of taking over from such an active and popular man as Jack Lang . |
| 17 | The plot of the story is one with which I am familiar . |
| 18 | On the razz is she on the pull ? |
| 19 | He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed . |
| 20 | ‘ The char is something like a salmon , ’ Mr Robinson said , but you find it in fresh water only . |
| 21 | Also a couple of days later Olsen himself once again spoke upon the matter — and the headline was something like ‘ Get a new club , Frank ’ . |
| 22 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 23 | More people owned motor cars than previously : by 1956 there was one car for every three people in the United States ; in France and Britain the figure was one for every thirteen people . |
| 24 | In the best 10 per cent of hospitals only one operating theatre session in 77 had to be cancelled , but in the worst 10 per cent the figure was one in six , he said . |
| 25 | But the process was one in which Britain has played a leading role , and the result is one in which we can clearly see the imprint of our views . |
| 26 | The result is lots of drawings , pen-and-wash and pastels , some of which are on show at Kirkleatham Museum in an exhibition which ends on Monday . |
| 27 | Implicitly , the programme was one for the reform of the existing empire rather than its overthrow . |
| 28 | ‘ A small part of the fault was mine for not noticing that Eleanor considered me as a great deal more than her employer . |
| 29 | Wyn Stewart and her husband , Peter are proof that the Club was something of a dating agency for its members . |
| 30 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |