Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time . |
| 2 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 3 | Not so : I 'm simply assessing the overall quality of the guitar above and beyond its ever-so-slightly battle-scarred state . |
| 4 | Nevertheless a high number had had contact with the Board probably because of the method of selecting prospective farms . |
| 5 | It can be argued that audit committees are unlikely to be a remedy for the particular problem of auditor/shareholders relationships since , as members of the board , the audit committee members logically form a channel of communication with the board rather than with shareholders . |
| 6 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 7 | However , the Article dealing with special remuneration drew a distinction between the Board and a committee of the Board so that as a matter of construction ‘ the Board ’ in that context meant the Board and not the committee . |
| 8 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 9 | He frowned as he strode along , thudding his staff on the ground at every stride , but still it was the loss of the sack rather than of the children that seemed to be the cause of his anger . |
| 10 | ‘ If they are not able to improve services at that level of spending they are not using the money efficiently and to the real benefit of the people in the town , ’ he said . |
| 11 | You said that in the nature of things you 've always needed the money almost as of yesterday . |
| 12 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 13 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 14 | There are certainly fewer trained health workers in the field now than in 1985 . |
| 15 | The person assembling the kit computer will not be liable under patent law , however , if he assembles and uses the computer privately and for non- commercial purposes . |
| 16 | Only when it is totally convinced that the danger is past will the snake finally and with great caution start to move away . |
| 17 | Questions of fairness of the procedure will be decided by interpreting the contract rather than by reference to an external standard . |
| 18 | But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it . |
| 19 | The two parties reached the decision mutually and with regret , Lola said in a statement issued on the eve of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 20 | Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear . |
| 21 | However , this does not prevent the target 's board from criticising the buyer publicly and in circulars to its shareholders . |
| 22 | The Bugis step their masts directly on to the deck rather than through it on to the hull floor beneath . |
| 23 | On the contrary , by trying to re-create on specific occasions particular events associated with Osiris thought was concentrated on the present rather than on the past . |
| 24 | Both the diffusionist and the evolutionary methods contrast with the structural-functional , which is above all contextual , and seeks at least the primary significance of the present in the present rather than in the past . |
| 25 | She belonged to the present more than to the past of that bedroom . |
| 26 | He leaned chummily on the bit so that after twenty minutes Theodora 's arms ached with the weight . |
| 27 | Whether the reader disagrees with that message or not , Eliot can not be accused of suddenly presenting it or of bringing it to the fore simply because of his Christian faith . |
| 28 | The problem , which has long troubled white consciences , has come to the fore now because of a decision by the High Court that in one case aborigines have a legal claim to lands where they hunted before the white man came . |
| 29 | Graham Turner 's future has also been to the fore recently but for different reasons . |
| 30 | One explanation is that the initial infection , acquired from the ingestion of overwintered larvae in May , involves so few worms that neither clinical signs nor immunity is produced ; however , sufficient numbers of larvae are seeded on to the pasture so that by July the numbers of L3 on pasture are sufficient to produce clinical disease . |