Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now if the defendants were bound to charge the plaintiff for the carriage of his goods a less sum , and they refused to carry them except upon payment of a greater sum , as he was compelled to pay the amount demanded , and could not otherwise have his goods carried , the case falls within the principle of several decided cases , in which it has been held that money which a party has been wrongfully compelled to pay under circumstances in which he was unable to resist the imposition , may be recovered back in an action for money had and received . |
| 2 | That is where our freedom lies and it is that freedom which the fatwa threatens , and which it can not be allowed to destroy . ’ |
| 3 | A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice . |
| 4 | ( Whitehouse and Stuart-Buttle , Revenue Law , 10th edn , Butterworths , para 37.74 , supports this view. ) ( b ) Termination of the settlement When the wife 's interest in possession ceases ( eg when the youngest child becomes 18 years of age ) there should be no charge to inheritance tax on that part of the settled property that reverts back to the husband ( Inheritance Tax Act 1984 , s53(3) ) nor on that part which the wife receives ( s53(2) ) . |
| 5 | It is apparent that trade unions in agriculture have never been sufficiently strong to raise wages beyond that level which the labour market has already determined . |
| 6 | The liturgy offers all Christians the opportunity to balance the discipline of habit and formal order with spontaneous renewal of that experience which the order of the liturgy is designed to clarify . |
| 7 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 8 | The definition the CSD used for its survey was : ‘ organisations which have been set up or adopted by Departments and provided with funds to perform some function which the Government wish to have performed but which it did not wish to be the direct responsibility of a Minister or Department ’ . |
| 9 | It is this story which the Pentateuch tells . |
| 10 | It was this force which the Collector now threw into the engagement , though he had to shout the order more than once as their leader , Judge Adams , was rather deaf . |
| 11 | They also produced all-embracing " definitions of marriage " of enormous complexity , the sole purpose of which was to ensure that , no matter what the ethnographic facts might be , there must always be some institution which an anthropologist could feel justified in labelling " marriage " . |
| 12 | Another issue which the Government is determined to tackle is the number of young people leaving school with no qualifications — 10pc at the last count . |
| 13 | It was this reconciliation which the grammar tried to achieve . |
| 14 | There is a slight difference between Kirkwall and Stromn so Kirkwall 's another place you the accent of a native born Kirkwallian unless you say the butter and water and things like that . |
| 15 | Another difference which the reader discovers at the end of the books is that Gatsby is truly faithful to Daisy , he will always and only love her , whereas Clegg soon spots another girl to replace Miranda . |
| 16 | Another danger which the Government face in the coming months is that of post-Maastricht pressures on sterling . |
| 17 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 18 | Brian can remember nothing of the accident — to this day it a mystery why it ever happened . |
| 19 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
| 20 | Yet another game which the English invented and are now embarrassingly bad at . |
| 21 | Our job is to listen to everybody , and in the end find some formulation of some policy which the Council can adopt to deal with the problem . |
| 22 | Our job is to listen to everybody , not just Rover , but everybody ; the unions , the city council and in the end , find some formulation of some policy which the council can adopt to deal with the problem . |
| 23 | Sir Anthony famously discovered in Cardiff this month what the rest of the country had known for a year : that many children saw the grisly film and were delighted by his Oscar-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic anti-hero . |
| 24 | Mr Crump was alarmed ; Mrs Crump leaned forward on her toes to increase her disappointing height and to reach forward to this man whose every title and reference made him more and more desirable . |
| 25 | Any theory of sentence production , then , will be a theory which describes what the constructive processes are which , when applied to some thought which a speaker wishes to convey to someone else , result in the formulation and production of an appropriate sentence . |
| 26 | We recently received this letter which a reader sent to the Manager of a WH Smith on Church Street in Liverpool : |
| 27 | This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship . |
| 28 | Another item which a horse does need is shoes . |
| 29 | There are factors outside the scope of this book which a tribunal may consider and thereby reduce the amount the employee is awarded . |
| 30 | I wonder if you could give me some idea what a leaflet similar to the attached would cost to produce , i.e. one spot colour throughout and full colour cover , say , 10,000 copies ? |