Example sentences of "to the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 2 | The exotic shores of Trucial Oman , washed by the warm sparkling waters of the Persian Gulf , and rich in all the Arabian Nights romance of the Middle East , offer something unique in holiday experience to the get-away-from-it-all holidaymaker … |
| 3 | We take it to the self-same spot and detonate it . ’ |
| 4 | She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer . |
| 5 | No doubt some partners would object — and legitimately so — to the latter route and , I suspect , in a number of cases several would not put aside sufficient for their tax payments in the former . |
| 6 | Exposure to the latter route of infection does not occur until kittens begin to hunt for themselves or to share the prey of their dams . |
| 7 | If , as appears likely , it only applies to the latter case , can it be invoked by any Member State or only by a Member State which voted against the legislation ? |
| 8 | Applying equation ( 10.28 ) to the latter case with gives equation ( 10.41 ) again since . |
| 9 | Yet witnesses to the latter part of the night 's events heard him talking clearly to a policeman . |
| 10 | Leader of the State Council Eduard Shevardnadze was elected to the latter position — effectively a presidential role — with over 95 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | Although one would probably incline pragmatically to the former interpretation in sentence 3 and to the latter interpretation in sentence 4 , the context could easily override these preferences — most obviously , perhaps , in the case of the president being a woman . |
| 13 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |
| 14 | A mortgage of tangible property is made by a deed , which is called a Bill of Sale ; and , under the Bills of Sale Act 1882 ( as modified by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ) , it must be in the form given in the schedule to the latter Act , and attested and registered as required by that Act . |
| 15 | Rage Against The Machine belongs to the latter category . |
| 16 | In relation to the latter category , the Secretary of State should give MPAs the power to revoke or substantially amend permissions without any compensation where working is/would : |
| 17 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 18 | Little evidence is presented that would support the claim that the moral panics associated with permissiveness were linked to the latter panic over street crime . |
| 19 | They have remained close to the latter level ever since . |
| 20 | ‘ The answer to the latter question is that I very much doubt it . |
| 21 | To the latter question came a rambling reply which encompassed various themes : the economic , the scientific , the geographical , the touristic and , lastly , the ideological . |
| 22 | Whereas the DCSL for School F limited her actions to the latter function , her colleague in School A ( and the other schools in her division ) played a much more active role with , and sometimes in , the library committee itself , so much so that she was occasionally described by teachers as the " leading light " in the formulation of the proposal . |
| 23 | In this connection , one opposing clergyman sought the intervention of the courts via an order of mandamus addressed to the Lord Chamberlain that he should present to Her Majesty a petition to the effect that the granting of the Royal Assent to the latter Bill would be contrary to the Act of Settlement 1700 and to Her Majesty 's coronation oath , both of which , he argued , forbade Her from thus imperilling the maintenance of Protestantism . |
| 24 | I can not get myself to react with critical coolness towards this music ; every tissue , every nerve vibrates in me and it is a long time since I had such an enduring feeling of rapture as when listening to the latter overture . " |
| 25 | Clause 11.3 relates to misrepresentations and misdescriptions , the position as to the latter being similar to non-disclosure in that it can render the landlord liable in damages for breach of contract . |
| 26 | Continued disruption in the education sector was thought to have given rise to the dismissal of the Ministers of Education and the Universities , the new appointee to the latter post being upgraded to full Cabinet status . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the sixteenth century , the trend to the latter solution became apparent . |
| 28 | It is to the latter process that I now turn . |
| 29 | His results pointed to the latter strategy . |
| 30 | To the latter end he was also responsible for establishing a savings bank at Workington , and for various friendly societies . |