Example sentences of "the [det] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't the least idea where on the head was the best place to hit or how hard it had to be . |
| 2 | Former Leicester striker Paul Kitson gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes but John Taylor equalised on the half hour before Johnson secured Derby 's fifth successive away victory . |
| 3 | The half year before the demerger of the textile division was otherwise remarkably stable . |
| 4 | The half year before the demerger of the textile division was otherwise remarkably stable . |
| 5 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 6 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |
| 7 | In the half century since the " Big Book " was written there has been continuing effort to reduce the number of people who fail to find recovery through the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 8 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 9 | The National Assembly ( elected in July — see p. 38994 ) was to be inaugurated on the latter date as planned . |
| 10 | The environmental impact assessment prepared for the Bill is an example of the latter type as no reference has been made to the NRA or to the environmental health department of Cardiff city council . |
| 11 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 12 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 13 | The union really wanted women out of the trade , but in public statements like Mr Battersby 's after-dinner speech , said that they were prepared to settle for equal pay ; while the women regarded the latter call as unrealistic if not hypocritical , since they felt ( and were daily told ) that they were not doing the equivalent of a skilled man 's work ( though even they thought the differentials too high ) . |
| 14 | I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts . |
| 15 | The theories reviewed in the previous section clearly divide along these lines , with world-system theories using the latter concept while regulationist theories use the former . |
| 16 | Somes joined the latter company when it was refounded in 1838 , sold to it its first ship , Tory ( sent to New Zealand in 1839 with a shipload of settlers without government permission ) , and became governor of the company in 1840 . |
| 17 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 18 | Between 1983 and 1987 he served successively in the government whips ' office and at the Department of Health and Social Security , entering the Cabinet in the latter year as Chief Secretary to the Treasury [ see pp. 35271-72 ] ; after briefly holding the post of Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary in mid-1989 [ see p. 36819 ] , he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1989 following the sudden resignation of Lawson [ see pp. 36982-83 ] . |
| 19 | A person commits the latter offence if he ‘ by any false pretence … with intent to defraud , obtains from any other person any chattel , money , or valuable security , or causes or procures any money to be paid , or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person . ’ |
| 20 | Many of the verses on the subject of Growltiger or Macavity had in fact originally been written for the children of the Fabers and the Morleys ; Eliot 's own affection for small rather than large animals is sufficiently well known , and he was the owner ( or patron ) of a succession of cats with names like Pettipaws , Wiscus and George Pushdragon — he used the latter name when entering crossword competitions in Time and Tide . |
| 21 | The boundary between curriculum enhancement and the third TTT purpose , professional development , is not clear-cut : curriculum enhancement necessarily involves professional development but TTT of this kind acquires the latter label when its purposes are quite explicitly directed at improving teacher competence . |
| 22 | Modern thinking favours the latter role because every decision has PR implications . |
| 23 | Quite clearly ‘ neighbourhood ’ representation emanated from the latter group since all active members were home-owners . |
| 24 | We will leave the latter method until the section on free 12-note music below , as it is more difficult , beginning here with the method of obscuring tonalities . |
| 25 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 26 | Moreover , in the crucial sector of manufacturing output , whilst the rate of growth of output was the same between the pre- and post-war periods the rate of growth of total factor productivity grew 50 per cent faster in the latter period than in the earlier one [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] . |
| 27 | Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts . |
| 28 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 29 | Recently , this full-length terracotta Madonna 127 cm high , was sent for conservation and the discovery that it was by the great sculptor Jacopo della Quercia was made , which has caused all the more excitement because it was completely unexpected . |
| 30 | An experience like mine makes all the more difference because of its contrast with the past " . |