Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whig lawyers , such as Treby and Somers , served as counsel for the defence in the bishops ' trial , a curious development considering the mutual antipathy between bishops and Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 2 | The Webbs , in particular , placed their faith for the future in the efficient re-engineering of society by ‘ unassuming experts ’ . |
| 3 | The reasons for the conflict in the various forecasts lie in the fact that the demand for higher education depends on a multiplicity of factors including the distribution of entrants into HE by age , gender , social class , region of residence , parental qualification and family size ; the effects of unemployment and comprehensive education ; the national demand for graduate-level skilled labour ; and last , but by no means least , the effect of the supply of places on demand . |
| 4 | An action is relevantly similar if it too has the properties which constituted one 's reasons for the judgement in the first case . |
| 5 | Among those in the middle age band , that is between 30 and pension age , the main reasons for the rise in the number of households are the increase in marital breakdown and the tendency for non-married people to live on their own ( Haskey , 1987a ) . |
| 6 | As far as the increase for the part-time employees is concerned , the reasons for the increase in the salaries for full-time employees are irrelevant . |
| 7 | Suggest possible reasons for the increase in the velocity of circulation . |
| 8 | Autonomous enterprises , for instance , will no longer yield their surplus automatically to the central government ( one of the reasons for the collapse in the Soviet tax base and the widening budget deficit ) . |
| 9 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 10 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 11 | If the term of the new lease is to exceed , say , five years , the draftsman should make provision for the inclusion in the new lease of machinery for reviewing the rent . |
| 12 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 13 | Mr E. O. Warner of James Purdey & Sons Ltd. with his original entry in the firm 's ledger for the guns in the Dolls ' House , 65 years after writing it . |
| 14 | The nature of the interactions between the proteins in the complex provides a possible explanation for the wide specificity of protein G for IgG . |
| 15 | In the first place protectionism had been traditional Conservative policy before the emergence of free trade and Joseph Chamberlain had revived some sympathy for the idea in the early twentieth century . |
| 16 | On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners . |
| 17 | No such worris for the guests in the Stewards ' enclosure , where there 's an endless flow of champagne and Pimms . |
| 18 | As the mountain trains , now both steam and diesel , leave the station , at Llanberis , keen-eyed passengers may notice the test-bed boiler for the experiments in the works yard near to the coaling-stage . |
| 19 | This section outlines the theoretical background to the topic in question , and provides a conceptual framework for the tasks in the following two sections . |
| 20 | Regular readers will recall that the first half of the 1970s saw an unprecedented upsurge of feminist activism , the most vigorous since the struggle for the vote in the first two decades of the century . |
| 21 | It remains to be seen whether the interaction between the molecules in the crystallographic dimer is representative of the GH5-GH5 interactions in chromatin . |
| 22 | He bought some of EH Shepherd 's original sketches for The Wind in the Willows , and decided Mole had to be about to embark on a big adventure . |
| 23 | Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown . |
| 24 | Police have said there was no link between the incidents in the two cities . |
| 25 | We 'll have a quick look through the drawers in the desk , and then I reckon we 'd better go . " |
| 26 | Applegarth , who was a radically minded Liberal , was at the centre of all the political and industrial issues of the 1860s : the vigorous support for the north in the American civil war ; the agitation for the repeal of the Master and Servant Acts ; the political aims of the Reform League ; and after union affairs his main concerns were the co-operative movement and a national system of education for working people . |
| 27 | A meeting of Western European Union ( WEU ) Foreign Ministers in Paris on Jan. 17 reaffirmed support for the USA in the Gulf war and for military action against Iraq until it withdrew unconditionally from Kuwait . |
| 28 | Faced with a sharp fall in support for the CDU in the former East German Länder , CDU general secretary Volker Rühe ( with the tacit support of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ) had led the group within the party pressing for the replacement of de Maizière . |
| 29 | ‘ There is enormous support for the scheme in the town and when they considered the first application , the only resident input came from a small group of people who opposed it , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The wide margin between support for the Conservatives in the South of England and Labour in the North and Scotland is shown in Table 5.7 and in Map 5.1 . |