Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , my Lord er I my observations on that issue at this point be that erm it seems to be the defence case that for the purposes of er the defendants avoiding a duty to advise the plaintiffs as to the need for clear financial offers their terms from the bank , Mr was an experienced man of business and er had considerable financial acumen for the purposes of considering er whether under the banks original proposal for finance he would have been successful , they would be trading as a financial disaster . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal rejected the defence argument that there must be actual violence or threats of violence for the offence to be classified as rape . |
| 3 | While the defence claim that the girls had consented was not taken seriously by the newspapers , the reports did often imply that the girls had behaved irresponsibly . |
| 4 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 5 | Defence Review in 1974/5 , civilian manpower has gone on falling thanks to efforts of successive Permanent Under-Secretaries to reduce overheads and to increase the percentage of the Defence vote that can be devoted to weapon procurement . |
| 6 | But ‘ overtly and freely to express opinion ’ implies some opportunity and machinery for making that opinion known , and therefore implies some kind of a suffrage , some kind of a voice or vote … ( 3 ) In matters of contention between sections of public opinion it is the majority opinion that prevails . |
| 7 | Still only 28 years old , Goram is imbued with the belief that his best days in the goalkeeping position that respects age have yet to come , and will be experienced over the next three years . |
| 8 | Their subtext was that this was a devoted husband and a decent chap , not the apprentice dictator that his detractors portrayed . |
| 9 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |
| 10 | The tail was just a stump with a few feathers beginning to show through , rather like the beard stubble that appears when someone has n't shaved fur a couple of days . |
| 11 | It was a very contrary thought ; after all , she had been so vague that last night together , making excuses to go back to England and honestly expecting Fernando to override them and come charging after her , exercising the caveman approach that a lot of women , in spite of their liberation , still craved — in this case Ruth , astonishingly , being one of them . |
| 12 | On 6 April , the funding miracle that the impoverished New-York Historical Society had been seeking took place . |
| 13 | Conditions in the base camp that is home to me , photographer David Hill , the remaining 15 expedition members , 18 Sherpas , three cooks , three kitchen boys , and one mail runnner are harsh . |
| 14 | These groups have made strenuous efforts to get it right — to get the sound they always wanted , with none of the cheapskate shoddiness that British soul/jazz groups often settle for : to counterbalance that lush , affluent sound with concerned lyrics , nods to their roots and tons of soul-blaring compassion . |
| 15 | So important is the committal rate that in the absence of a significant reduction , pressure for such a reform is likely to resurface in the future . |
| 16 | The regression equation that is estimated is . |
| 17 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to the final official opening of the Tunnel , and I 'm delighted to have been part of the support structure that has made it possible . |
| 19 | Is there and is there any kind of exp expected amongst the support group that that the strike is going to end successfully ? |
| 20 | When a guest checks out , the reception desk staff will write a message on the machine informing the housekeeping department that the room is vacant and needs servicing . |
| 21 | Stephen walked about his room , thinking about the house he was in , about the garden and the brick wall that surrounded it , and the white iron gate in the archway , and the setters and the summer-house . |
| 22 | And the pleadings bundle which I 've got also seems to be erm from your side but it 's er seems to be the trial bundle that was lodged with the court rather than the one that you 've a different order and different pagination . |
| 23 | It had been held by the Trial Division that the trust territory is not a separate legal entity but forms part of the Executive Department of the United States , and that the Trusteeship Agreement did not create a trust enforceable in the courts of equity . |
| 24 | ‘ If this judgment is less helpful than the parties hoped , as it almost certainly is , the reason lies in the terms of the statute , which places the discretion so unequivocally on the trial judge that it leaves little or no room for an appellate court to lay down principles or even guidelines . |
| 25 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 26 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 27 | The paratroop regiment that he had left eighteen months before was now bivouacked in a concrete and brick school house on the outskirts of Jalalabad and dominated the low ground of an Afghan valley . |
| 28 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 29 | And she baked some bread with the millet flour that she had brought from her own garden . |
| 30 | Into this somewhat bizarre plot , Hopper built in his odd interjections designed to remind the cinema audience that it was only a movie they were watching , that nothing was real . |