Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [be] [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 2 | If the response is not satisfactory a visit can have advantages in that the claimant can see that an interest is being taken in their welfare , the handler can consider whether or not an independent examination may be desirable and also may act as a catalyst in a speedy return to work . |
| 3 | Although the case was still open the police had no hope of finding him after all this time . |
| 4 | The decision was as rational a move as every other move in Jackie 's career . |
| 5 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 6 | Because the mass is so high the same force will have very little effect on . |
| 7 | Legend has it that Nigel Rudd was watching Magic Roundabout with his four year old son when he finally decided that the recession was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 8 | Legend has it that Nigel Rudd was watching Magic Roundabout with his four year old son when he finally decided that the recession was too good an opportunity to miss |
| 9 | It 's ha it happens all your life , the noise is there all the time |
| 10 | If the noise is still unbearable a tenants ' refuge is available for residents . |
| 11 | Consequently , although the condition was still untreatable the neonatal identification could facilitate reproductive choice in further pregnancies in the immediate and the extended family . |
| 12 | The surface that the rotor presented to the wind was only one-tenth the projected sail area . |
| 13 | But the really surprising thing about the research is how similar the two sets of readers are in their tastes . |
| 14 | He had never been able to hit the animal but he knew how to throw a punch , and the Punk was n't such a good mover as Cobber . |
| 15 | It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore . |
| 16 | Whilst the one that did the buying was predominantly PC-based the one that was bought used Macintoshes widely . |
| 17 | Where the statute is not clear the court 's determination of which of the options set out above applies may well depend on the strength of the presumption . |
| 18 | The sansculotte was as familiar a subject in Gillray 's 1793 output , as had been the inadequacies of the British Royal Family in the previous year . |
| 19 | The rather dissimilar , and much later , pyramids of South America were probably largely religious in origin ; if one wants to build a pretty impressive temple to one 's gods , the pyramid is as good a shape as any to choose . |
| 20 | Because the issue was hugely undersubscribed the Bank effectively underwrote the shares by entering the secondary market at a fixed price of 70p ( the partly paid issue price being 120p ) for a period of 6 months . |
| 21 | From then on the mood is as fine a crescendo of obsessive behaviour as you 're likely to get this side of hell . |
| 22 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 23 | The hall 's about half a mile up that road . ’ |
| 24 | The jolliness of the return was very unlike the thorny mood of the journey out . |
| 25 | What struck one about the campaign was how un-Thatcherite the Tory leaders sounded . |
| 26 | I think that the initial conditions of the universe are as suitable a subject for scientific study and theory as are the local physical laws . |
| 27 | Regressive rock 's meaning is diminished because hardly anyone at all is into it ; the scene is claustrophobically LOCAL a parochial huddle — its problem is not one of dehumanized distance but of an overdose of intimacy . |
| 28 | The question is how bad the hangover will be , and not merely for Japan . |
| 29 | Even if the fall is comparatively slow a lateral displacement of the shoreline must still be expected to occur . |
| 30 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |