Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This protection for the local authority does not require the residence to have taken place for the whole 12 months in the house to which succession is claimed . |
| 2 | Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation . |
| 3 | Reynolds , the 400 metres outdoor world record holder , won the 400m in 45.91 seconds , 0.2sec ahead of Jason Rouser who earned the other berth in the US team for the World Indoor Championships in Toronto next month . |
| 4 | But the victory left her still undecided about whether to bid for a place in the British team for the World Indoor Championships in Toronto next month . |
| 5 | Ashcroft , one of the brightest young middle distance runners in Britain , had the injection in case she is selected for the World Junior Championships in Seoul in September . |
| 6 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 7 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |
| 8 | A four-month " consultation period " set after the publication of the second draft was extended after the mid-year political upheavals in China [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 9 | In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions . |
| 10 | It was calculated that in Prussia at the end of the century 1,700,000 men in a total population of 8,700,000 were completely exempt from military service ( 1,170,000 because of privileges possessed by most of the Prussian towns , 530,000 because of their social status or occupation ) . |
| 11 | The instructions given to the Dutch negotiators at the Munster peace congress which began its work in 1645 insisted on their being treated on the same footing as those of Venice ; and by the end of the century Dutch ambassadors in Paris were claiming royal honours . |
| 12 | Whatever its defects , the value of the SGA 1979 lies in its general applicability to all products and consumer transactions as well as in the fact that the consumer 's rights are not dependent on the existence or otherwise of a guarantee . |
| 13 | In this respect , although conditional sales are regulated for the purposes of the nemo dat exceptions in s25(2) of SGA 1979 , and hire purchase under Sched 4 of CCA 1974 , the two sets of provisions are virtually identical . |
| 14 | Before the passing of the UCTA such guarantees in theory were supposed to offer the purchaser of defective goods a remedy additional to that of suing the person from whom he bought the goods . |
| 15 | The impact of the likely ( Audit 12 ) adjusted programming of the Audit 10 sites in the catchment of Liberton High School and Liberton Primary School , together with : |
| 16 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 17 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 18 | It will probably not surprise the reader to learn that at the outset of the course serious gaps in participants ' knowledge were identified . |
| 19 | Sunshine bathed the dancing children , all in Year Four at Perryfields School , Springfield , who enjoyed a morning out of the classroom entertaining shoppers in Exchange Way . |
| 20 | The Thurn und Taxis family , which had since the sixteenth century controlled the postal services of the smaller German States , maintained on behalf of the Emperor similar establishments in many cities of the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 21 | And there was a warning of the effect proposed cuts in British aid would have on long term projects in the third world … |
| 22 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 23 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 24 | After the Equine swimming pool or one of the other places of special interest , a visit to one of the many private training stables in the town is followed by a guided tour of either the National Stud or one of the world famous Studs in the area . |
| 25 | She began to feel that she would like to become a Roman Catholic , partly to frighten her mother , who was one of the pioneer Christian Scientists in England , and partly because the rigorousness of the experience attracted her . |
| 26 | It has been shown that experimental anoxia and a metabolic uncoupler , 2,4-dinitrophenol , cause structural changes in gap junctions , characterised by a tighter hexagonal aggregation of the gap junctional particles in the stomach and other tissues . |
| 27 | A veritable graveyard of old beams charts the history of the timber framed houses in England like a parish register . |
| 28 | At an early meeting of the YCCC with the Middlesboro City Council , the latter having changed the date and place of the meeting several times in order to avoid having to directly face the group on the issues of the campaign , a staff member of Highlander posed as a member of the press and , with video camera in hand , asked questions on the Yellow Creek pollution directly to the Mayor , and filmed the result . |
| 29 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 30 | Interestingly , this position is backed up by the experience of the Mondragon cooperative enterprises in the Basque region of Spain . |