Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So although the wet climate in the west of Britain causes more magnesium to be washed from the soil than in Germany , this amount is far less than that added to the soil each year from rainfall . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 3 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 4 | If this ditch is contemporary with the rampart then the gap for the gate between the rampart ends must have been much narrower than that left between the ditch ends . |
| 5 | The statement ‘ If rain falls on spruce forests , the rain can become even more acid ’ may have been drawn from a recent paper from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology that certainly showed that water flowing down the stem was more acid than that caught in the open . |
| 6 | Alternatively , an unwilling respondent may claim that the dispute is wider than that presented to the forum , in that third parties are involved , and that the claim should not be considered in their absence . |
| 7 | The statutory duty will be wider than that envisaged in the Auditing Guideline . |
| 8 | The authors support this finding with their observation that the recurrence risk ratio for first degree relatives in families with two affected members is greater than that found among the relative of single probands ( 18.1 v 8 ) . |
| 9 | The HNO 3 column amount measured inside the vortex is in close agreement with values observed in 1986 ( ref. 17 ) , and a little higher ( within the errors ) than that recorded from the Arrival Heights laboratory in 1987 . |
| 10 | Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune . |
| 11 | The foam on the back is thinner than that used on the front , the intention being to allow slalom paddlers ( who are good enough ) to pass even closer to the poles . |
| 12 | We were interested to see how the hierarchical model would scale up , given better input data than that used in the ARPA project . |
| 13 | The 1s level binding energies of elements increase roughly as Z , the nuclear charge , and can of course only be used for elements lighter than that used in the X-ray source . |
| 14 | A garrison of fewer than 10,000 men had held out against massive Japanese land and air forces and more than 3,000 died in the defence and subsequent occupation . |
| 15 | There are more than 1,500 employed by the Ministry of Defence at military bases across Northern Ireland , and at least five of them have been murdered . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 5,000 injured in the fighting . |
| 17 | The freedom is earned and justified by the poet 's acceptance of this responsibility , a responsibility more onerous than any incurred by the writer in regular meter . |
| 18 | By the end of the fifteenth century many chantries had served their term : some had dissolved through lack of maintenance on the part of the families concerned , while others disappeared through amalgamation ; so that by the time of the suppression there were not more than 200 spread among the City churches . |
| 19 | We agreed to contact each other first if that happened in the future , before making a reply . |
| 20 | I am sure that a considerable number of chemists — professionally recognised or otherwise — would be more encouraged to take up continuing education if this led to the award of a recognised National Vocational Qualification ( NVQ ) , or more appropriately a RSC certificate/diploma . |
| 21 | If one thought of the head only going forward , and not upward , it would invariably drop downwards , causing an increase of muscular tension in the neck area . |
| 22 | As he raised his boots to hit the labour master , the latter , in self defence , slapped him with the flat of his hand and closed with him , whereupon both fell to the ground . |
| 23 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 24 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 25 | The dislocation in C may be because its scribe entered Lyfing 's death under 1020 from another record , and only after this turned to the entry in the main Cnut chronicle , from which he then omitted it . |
| 26 | I went on through into the dome car where there were three more bedrooms before one came to the bar , which was furnished with tables , seating and barman . |
| 27 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 28 | When that went into the paper , that 's a similar sort of thing that they use |
| 29 | Ignoring any voltage drop across the filter , the average output voltage will be the same as that applied to the filter input . |
| 30 | This means that in most ( almost all ) cases the Provisional Banding notified in December 1992 will be the same as that notified on the Demand in April 1993 . |