Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 2 | Ferdinando was out , she knew , and so were Pen and Annunciata if the total silence was any indication . |
| 3 | Originally , the abridged talk in Davis 's recording had seemed to be a sensible compromise , yet looking back I can see that it had something to do with the partial dissatisfaction expressed in my review of the reissue : ‘ the total effect is more of a divertissement than of opéra-comique ’ . |
| 4 | The normal expectation is that Acquisition Target Contact Assistance will be conducted on a fee-paying basis by the participating member , but such arrangements should be agreed in advice and a participating member may decide not to charge a fee ( in expectation of more significant fees for the prospective engagement involving broader acquisition advice should contact with the acquisition target result in negotiations ) . |
| 5 | The normal procedure was that , at an elaborate ritual ( the tali-tying ceremony ) which had to be held before her first menstruation , every girl was " married " to a ritual husband who came from a matrilineage which had the status of enangar in relation to her own . |
| 6 | It is equally true that Lord Diplock has stated that the normal presumption is that Parliament intends questions of law to be decided by the courts , but his Lordship did not state that this was an irrebuttable presumption . |
| 7 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 8 | The left-hand pages bore a coloured photograph of some English beauty spot with an appropriate verse , both for the picture and the time of year , while the right-hand pages were each divided into seven sections . |
| 9 | The highest authority of the Fund is still exercised by the board of governors , but the constitution of the interim committee is such that decisions taken there are usually ratified by the full board when it meets annually in the autumn . |
| 10 | His description of the galleries of Dent on either side of the narrow street is all that is left to remind us of their undoubted presence , ‘ I regret the loss of the grotesque and rude but picturesque old galleries , which once gave character to the streets ; and in some parts of them almost shut out the sight of the sky from those who travelled along the pavement . |
| 11 | The narrow view is that of our individual human mind . |
| 12 | The broad idea is that financial-service companies should have the right to operate throughout the EC on the basis of a single ‘ passport ’ , issued by the supervisory authority in their home country . |
| 13 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 14 | The Liquid Faeries are all chicken wire guitars with a primitive production and basic arrangement . |
| 15 | While the affirmation that Spain was a ‘ Republic of workers of all classes ’ and clauses limiting absolute property rights bore a socialist ring , the prevailing tone was that of Left-republicanism . |
| 16 | Among the technical arts cultivated in some continental schools that began to affect England soon after the Norman Conquest were those of measurement and calculation . |
| 17 | For quantity comparisons , the hypothetical value is that which would have held if current prices had existed in the base year . |
| 18 | Recall that in a boom year , aggregate measured income exceeds aggregate permanent income so that the measured apc is less than the long-run apc , while in a slump year ( where Y < Y p ) the measured apc is greater than the long-run apc . |
| 19 | Furthermore , although the domain-specific corpora were all the same length , due to variations in the type:token ratio the resultant dictionaries varied greatly in size ( from 3,960 entries to 7,748 entries ) . |
| 20 | The role of the friendly critic was another area which was more complicated in reality than in theory . |
| 21 | The food to which Agnes Diggory led her had been welcome , however , and she had chosen to consume it in the friendly housekeeper 's little pantry next to the kitchen , rather than risk encountering Miss Merchiston once again tonight . |
| 22 | The poorest readers are those who read word byword , even letter by letter ; and the best are those who are n't conscious of " reading words " at all , and who use context and meaning before they use word analysis . |
| 23 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 24 | The facial features are those of an elderly woman and , though not a portrait of the deceased , they are in line with standard representational portraiture of the period ; viewed from above one can almost visualize the parted winding-sheet . |
| 25 | The finest example is that adjacent to the forum , the Forum Baths . |
| 26 | Lessons may seen very expensive at first , but the combined total is less than what many people spend on a holiday . |
| 27 | Among the largest demonstrations were those held on Jan. 12 when almost 200,000 attended marches in 70 cities , on Jan. 13 when 250,000 demonstrated in 120 cities ( including 7,000 at the US air base near Frankfurt and 50,000-100,000 in Berlin ) , and on Jan. 26 when 200,000 protested in Bonn . |
| 28 | The largest report was all of 4 inches by 2 inches in the 6/7 newspapers I went through yesterday morning . |
| 29 | Rather , we assume that the characteristics of the political system are those typically found in Western democracies , and examine within the context of those assumptions ( e.g. , majority voting ) the behaviour of the electorate , the government , and the bureaucracy . |
| 30 | Basically , though , the essential features of the political system were those established in the preceding century . |