Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [conj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 2 | Michael Wilson , the Canadian Finance Minister , who chaired the Interim Committee , said that all countries had made concessions and that the compromise 50 per cent increase represented a " balanced agreement " . |
| 3 | He shifts his ground , arguing first , that he has feigned madness and that the doctor is a fool to be taken in ; and second , that his doctor has mistaken poetic genius for madness because he is a fool . |
| 4 | weak muscles around the bladder outlet ( especially in women who have had children or after the menopause ) causing stress incontinence ; |
| 5 | It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year . |
| 6 | The PCC considered that the dialogue with the USA had reached deadlock and that the PLO should seek other ways of dealing with Washington from a stronger negotiating position . |
| 7 | It seems to have struck edge-on as though the blow nearly missed . |
| 8 | Knox J. held that the defendant was not entitled to rely on a plea of non est factum on the ground that the mother did not know that she had been appointed attorney and that the transaction was a sale within the power of attorney . |
| 9 | The group leader 's belief that all members have expressed views and that the decision is a consensus of divergent views . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Scottish Conservative party has debated devolution and that the proposals now on offer from the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats are flawed and fraudulent ? |
| 11 | I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers . |
| 12 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 13 | In industrial safety cases there is a well established jurisprudence and unless the statute specifically excludes liability the court will hold that an industrial safety statute gives rise to an action . |
| 14 | But Tajan is contesting the obligation to pay his sellers on the grounds that the objects have not actually changed hands and that the auction took place in Japan and is thus not subject to French legislation . |