Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 2 | In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building . |
| 3 | To return to this country , I am advising on a draft Bill for the protection of antiquities the Society of Antiquaries , the Council for British Archaeology and the museum profession are behind it . |
| 4 | So there was intermarriage with natives , something also implied by Pindar ( Pythian ix ) , who describes how Telesikrates ' ancestors competed for the daughter of Antaios the Libyan giant ( and cp . |
| 5 | The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days . |
| 6 | For the experiment on thrushes the reference is Smith ( 1974a , b ) , and the subject of search paths is discussed more generally by Pyke , et al. |
| 7 | To account for the absence of eggs the Smithsonian scientists removed female moths , ready to lay , from captured sloths to screened cages , where the moths promptly laid their eggs on any hard surface . |
| 8 | Under a contract for the sale of goods the seller 's basic obligation is to deliver the goods , and the buyer 's basic obligations are to accept and pay for them ( SGA 1979 , s27 ) . |
| 9 | There may also be a contract of sale with respect to a future contingency so that s5(2) of SGA 1979 states : ( 2 ) There may be a contract for the sale of goods the acquisition of which by the seller depends on a contingency which may or may not happen . |
| 10 | For the community of disciples the crucifixion was not the end . |
| 11 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
| 12 | During the Time of Troubles the patriarchate ( established in 1589 ) became a vital focus of authority . |
| 13 | Pressman and Wildavsky have made a tentative attempt to draw attention to what may loosely be described as the mathematics of implementations the way in which the mere quantity of agreements necessary may , even when all parties are committed to a policy , undermine or delay effective action . |
| 14 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 15 | Some day , she supposed , Fen would be setting up home there with his girlfriend , and the less she knew about the interior of Chimneys the less material her jealous imagination would have to fester upon . |
| 16 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 17 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 18 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 19 | Two years after the onset of symptoms the patient was still unable to return to work . |
| 20 | Soon after the introduction of GREAs the government recognized a danger that some authorities might use them as targets , with the consequence that some authorities spending below their GREAs might be encouraged to spend more , while those spending far above them might find the task of cutting back to GREA level too difficult . |
| 21 | The idea of the charter , launched on Monday at the Rockwell nature conservation area off Martindale Road , Darlington , was to inform people of the type of improvements the local authority would work towards . |
| 22 | Dr. Lynne Michelle , of Edinburgh , has highlighted in her studies on the perception of children of the promotion of cigarettes the grave danger , almost the entrapment of a younger generation by irresponsible elements in the industry and , sadly , the example set by other adults , including parents . |
| 23 | Drama school productions are staged with an awareness of the kind of demands the profession will make , and students are naturally anxious to be seen in the final production by people who 're likely to offer them work . |
| 24 | In the context of the transfer of businesses the former approach can amount to forcing the worker to work for someone he or she has not chosen . |
| 25 | By virtue of the transfer of cattle the woman 's biological offspring are ordinarily deemed to be members of the descent group of the husband rather than that of the woman 's father ; payment of the cattle makes the children legitimate ; cohabitation alone does not . |
| 26 | One visionary speaker at the British Association ( science ) meeting in 1984 spoke of the likelihood of rats the size of wolves inheriting the Earth in 50 million years time , when Man — in all probability — is no longer on the scene . |
| 27 | ‘ He it was who stood in the deepest Sorcery Chamber of tara and read from the Book of the Academy of Necromancers the incantation . |
| 28 | Now , having Passed the late afternoon imbibing gently at the Taverna Silenou , and feeling unusually tolerant of the rash of visitors the sabbath always brought to Lindos , he was picking a dawdling path back along one of the town 's winding cobbled alleys , squinting against the strength of the sun . |
| 29 | After Beirut , Sir Patrick held a string of the sort of jobs the FO reserves for high flyers — postings to Washington and Cairo , private secretary to the then permanent under-secretary , Lord Gore-Booth , and then , in the mid-1970s , private secretary ( foreign affairs and defence ) to two prime ministers , Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 30 | Because of the absence of chemicals the bees survive happily and are used to pollinate the flowers . |