Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some point , between the end of the prosecution in December and the beginning of the defence in February , Noriega 's lawyers abandoned what was to be a sensational defence : a claim that Noriega was a dupe of CIA-contract pilots running guns to Nicaraguan Contras and returning home via Panama with cocaine . |
| 2 | Mr Zivkovic , a draughtsman who lived in Britain for 24 years after the war but now lives in Tasmania , Australia , was giving evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations by Mr Nikolai Tolstoy and Mr Nigel Watts that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs . |
| 3 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 4 | This reading of the section is reinforced by the existence of the defence in section 5(3) ( a ) that the actor had no reason to believe that there was any person within sight or hearing likely to suffer harassment , alarm or distress . |
| 5 | The defence in section 24(3) may therefore be a last resort . |
| 6 | It falls finally to mention the defence in section 25 ( available on any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts ) . |
| 7 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , the defence in fact proved conclusive in the GCHQ case itself . |
| 8 | the House of Lords criticised the application of the defence in Nichols v. Marsland , and four of their lordships cast doubt on the finding of facts by the jury in that case . |
| 9 | Evidence from Cuba 's President Castro , video-taped by the defence in Havana , was also abandoned . |
| 10 | This meant that the jury must have accepted the defence in relation to one charge but not in relation to the other . |
| 11 | It expresses the masculine initiative of Christ 's saving , self-giving love and the need for the response in love of the Church/bride . |
| 12 | The response in Britain was not quite so dramatic the National Grid was untroubled by the kind of power surge that goes with huge viewing figures . |
| 13 | It was n't a marginal decision , the the sum total of the inner routes er represent thirty percent of those er expressing a view whereas the one outer route attracted seventy percent of the response in favour . |
| 14 | The response in England to the agreement reached at Bruges was hostile . |
| 15 | As we have seen , the response in England has been substantial ; in Wales , on the other hand , there has been very little reaction to the reports and teacher training for further education in the Principality is generally less well developed than in England . |
| 16 | When visualized by confocal microscopy , the response in Xenopus oocytes had two phases . |
| 17 | Unlike the euphoric articles which have appeared in Germany on this subject , the response in Russia has been more muted . |
| 18 | Because of interaction , component values can not be determined by a simple ‘ rule of thumb ’ and it is necessary to equate the response in terms of impedances with that in terms of time constants . |
| 19 | In order to reflect accurately the pupil 's mathematical thinking , it is vital to assess the response in terms of the problem as the pupil perceives it . |
| 20 | Lie about the response in Arizona . ’ |
| 21 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 22 | Lord Morton of Henryton commenting on that example said that in each case it would be for the Commissioners to make a finding as to whether the income in question was or was not paid to or for the benefit of the child by virtue or in consequence of the settlement . |
| 23 | The Inland Revenue Technical Division were asked in correspondence whether they adhered to this view where the income in question was paid to a beneficiary who was neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or , alternatively , where foreign source income was concerned , was paid outside the United Kingdom to a beneficiary who was not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 25 | Mike can probably come in teen care , but essentially what we have done in the current year , is sell places on teen care where we have needed the income in order to balance our books , . |
| 26 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 27 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 28 | I woke up frightened at having my knife and pill-bottles in the tent in case I should end my life during my night 's sleep . |
| 29 | The Duchess also visited houses in Dudley Road , New Brighton , Bedford Drive , Rock Ferry , The Wiend in Birkenhead and Penkett Road , Warrington . |
| 30 | The Duchess also visited houses in Dudley Road , New Brighton ; Bedford Drive , Rock Ferry ; The Wiend in Bebington ; and Penkett Road , Warrington . |