Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ice is the greatest worry that a pool owner has during winter months , for not only does it trap noxious gases which are likely to suffocate the fish , but it also exerts tremendous pressure upon the pool structure and can crack the most expertly laid concrete . |
| 2 | Fortunately , the incoming melts and the chamber walls often have significantly different isotopic compositions , so that their respective influences can be detected . |
| 3 | In the spring of 1932 the British announced that a flotilla of three destroyers was to grace the city with a visit . |
| 4 | The Poles reluctantly asked the British to cancel the visit but the British insisted that the visit should go ahead as planned . |
| 5 | He explained that the British envisaged that the union , having at its apex the European Council consisting of heads of government , would have beneath it distinct pillars of co-operation , with the Treaty of Rome and intergovernmental pillars representing respectively foreign and security policy co-operation and actions against drugs and terrorism overseen by interior and justice ministers . |
| 6 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 7 | The French replied that the devastation and terrorism that continued was not all the fault of ‘ dissident ’ nationalist Vietnamese or bandits and although it might not have the status of an ‘ official ’ armed struggle the results were indistinguishable . |
| 8 | Darwin was one of the few to speculate that the law of succession of types was best explained in terms of the constraints placed upon evolution by the major geographical barriers defining the continents . |
| 9 | Can a party of government be a pseudo-religious miracle-worker , getting the lame to walk and the blind to receive their sight ? |
| 10 | Many doctors specializing in the care of the dying consider that the state of modern medicine makes even the need to consider the notion of euthanasia , whether at the request of the patient or otherwise , as an option quite unnecessary , quite apart from its moral repugnance . |
| 11 | Did the accused intend that the period of his keeping the machinery would be so long as to amount to an outright taking ? |
| 12 | In Robinson [ 1977 ] Crim LR 173 ( CA ) , the accused demanded that the victim repay a debt owed by the victim 's wife to him . |
| 13 | The court held that the accused represented that the bank owed him the money and that he was entitled to withdraw it . |
| 14 | The burden of proof is shifted on to the defendant and although the prosecution does not need to prove that the accused intended that the impression be false and misleading , the defendant may need to establish that he reasonably believed that it would not be so . |
| 15 | The second came when the Portuguese , having rounded the Cape and carried western merchandise to India , south-east Asia and China , took on board quantities of cowries as ballast for the return voyage . |
| 16 | The second occurs when the process has the option of deadlocking completely : getting into a nonterminated state where no communication is possible . |
| 17 | Hart 's analysis of the criminal law separates two questions : the first considers what kinds of obligations the state should impose upon citizens ; and the second examines when a person is responsible for a breach of an established duty . |
| 18 | It lay only about six miles west of Châtellerault and documents from the 1130s indicate that the castellan of Clairvaux at that time was a vassal of the Viscount of Châtellerault . |
| 19 | Nobody wanted to push the struggle any further ; nobody in the 1740s imagined that a fight to the death was at hand . |
| 20 | The icons to the left indicate that a slide is a chart or an organisation diagram . |
| 21 | One day the inevitable happened and the cotton broke . |
| 22 | Iraq 's expansion of the port of Umm Qasr and the development of the Rumalla oil field during the 1970s meant that a settlement of the dispute became a prime Iraqi objective . |
| 23 | The fall in the birth rate in the 1970s means that the number of people entering the labour market today is falling . |
| 24 | The 70% restoration grant from English Heritage in the 1970s means that the house is currently in good structural condition . |
| 25 | Research during the 1970s showed that the concentration of service employment in southern Britain was related to the increasing dominance in the economy of large multi-site companies with their head office , administration and associated satellite suppliers near London . |
| 26 | The latter demanded that the strike be called off to avoid even worse news . |
| 27 | As a result of the damage caused to the owner of minks to which the food had been given , the latter counterclaimed when the supplier of the food sued for the price of the food that had been sold and delivered . |
| 28 | The principal example for the latter occurs when the shareholder wants to borrow on the security of his shares . |
| 29 | The former is one based on the career needs of the individual , and refers to the need to achieve a particular level ( passing an exam or reading technical material in that language ) , and the latter occurs when the learner seeks to identify with the culture and become part of it . |
| 30 | While the former does not go beyond the school — seeing the school as both problem and solution — the latter assumes that the education system is entirely successful as an apparatus which reproduces gender and class inequality . |