Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 2 | Therefore , the result is that I dismiss the claim as against the second defendant . |
| 3 | The key is that we take the issue seriously . |
| 4 | This is probably one of the most difficult factors for the young diabetic to accept and undoubtedly a great advantage of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion is that it permits the patient greater flexibility in relation to the timing of meals with manual boluses of insulin 30 minutes beforehand . |
| 5 | One of the great pleasures of the north-east is that we attract the second-largest amount of outside investment after Wales . |
| 6 | What this meant in practice was that we overplayed the Health Service , we underplayed almost everything else , and then got into an awful muddle over proportional representation . |
| 7 | I have done mine , erm , I will send one of these round , but the majority of them I feel are so very small that I do n't feel that we need to discuss filling in the because I know the intention was that we sent the document well in advance of what 's being done otherwise we are just going to get bogged down in er , this meeting in terms of all of the decisions . |
| 8 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 9 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |
| 10 | The weakness of the proposal is that it dodges the West Lothian Question , first raised in the Seventies by Tam Dalyell . |
| 11 | Their main benefit is that they allow the applications software to be independent of the physical printing device as opposed to the normal case where specific routines have to be written for each device . |
| 12 | The only advantage London has in developing an act is that it offers the opportunity of performing frequently . |
| 13 | Okay that basic architecture is if you want the vanilla sort of architecture for the entrical stuff . |
| 14 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 15 | ‘ Part of the charm is that you cross the sea to Skye . ’ |
| 16 | That is , the justification for the enactment of an advance notice requirement is that it forces the organisers to discuss with the police arrangements for the conduct of the procession which enable the event to be held in such a way as to minimise the risks of disorder . |
| 17 | The important question is whether it fulfils the longer term expectations which the Spanish authorities have invested in it . |
| 18 | The likelihood is that he saw the decisive disadvantages of Curzon but could not quite reconcile himself to the thought of the very junior Baldwin , who had so recently ‘ bounced ’ and damaged him over the debt settlement , being in 10 Downing Street . |
| 19 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 21 | The crucial weaknesses of the South Korean army on the eve of the Korean War were that it lacked the range and quality of the equipment possessed by the North Korean forces and that the leadership of the North Korean army was inspired by a fanaticism unequalled by those fighting for Syngman Rhee . |
| 22 | Its fundamental differences to the original Illustrator product were that it simplified the user interface both by the introduction of a freehand tool and the classification of anchor points into line , corner and curve types while simultaneously introducing the benefits of colour . |
| 23 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 24 | The only thing on the table at the moment is whether we pursue the option to purchase this year . |
| 25 | Sculptor is always very low from British and northern United States latitudes ; its only claim to fame is that it contains the south galactic pole . |
| 26 | One of the reasons for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol — but there are other ways , too , in which it would appear to perform useful functions in keeping the heart healthy . |
| 27 | In this process the danger is that we destroy the inner reality of that which we appear to be preserving . |
| 28 | One of the main benefits of massage is that it boosts the blood circulation . |
| 29 | A final benefit of this highly consistent input impedance is that it makes the choice of interconnecting cables far less significant , relieving this rather contentious subject of much of its ‘ mystery ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The most important thing about the Prince of Wales Initiative is that it gives the opportunity for other industries to share their knowledge of environmental protection , ’ she says . |