Example sentences of "[unc] [no cls] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liberal Democrats have little sympathy for the trade union traditions of the Labour movement , which gave that party its moral raison d'être as protector of the working class . |
| 2 | Officers ' helmet-plates had the Garter motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense in place of the regimental title . |
| 3 | It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females . |
| 4 | This position was further improved by the effective withdrawal of Sinn Fein from Westminster after the election of 1918 and the second redistribution in Ireland in 1921 after the Government of Ireland Act , which gave another bonus " to the Unionists by removing about seventy opponents from the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Well I 'd think they 'd have to be good , they er er at Bolton at the General Election , they put Bolton Southeast through a lot of Bolton West and Northeast but |
| 6 | er er on television at the moment is n't it ? |
| 7 | I think that er that is a question better directed towards the French , possibly my colleagues in the foreign office but my understanding is that the French assembly have indeed er approved ratification er but the French government i is declining er to append the appropriate signatures to it er er until agreement over the erm the parliament building at at Strasbourg is completed erm but my honourable friend I think in true parliamentary form , asks questions to which he already feels he knows pretty well what the answer is and I suspect that my answer squares with what he knows already . |
| 8 | Last year the general assembly decided nem con without demur on the advice of the assembly council that the Board of Social Responsibility should move away from the church 's office in George Street . |
| 9 | As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members . |
| 10 | The planner is thus a sort of agent provocateur on behalf of the consumer , working on both agency and client . |
| 11 | Well Mrs Toad is having a sale in her shop + + she has laid out her caish + cash register + + an' a number of pots of tea + + it 's gon na be a special sale because + + so she has th' + a sign up saying + prices are slashed + so she hopes lots of customers will be coming along + to visit her + + while she ‘ s waiting for customers + she goes about setting out the rest of + of the shop + + for things in the sale + + an ’ she brings on + large cans of tin + of tea + + for + she can only carry one at a time + so she walks on with one and puts it on the counter + + |
| 12 | I do think the discussion so far and the contribution from Mr and Mr is unfairly er at this stage erm prejudicing a proper assessment of er er er a for a new settlement all the way round Greater York including the Southwest and I return to a comment I made before the break , that dualling for example of the outer bypass of the York ring road which is programmed and is , will dramatically change may well dramatically change the perception erm erm of people to the to the west of the Greater York area in respect of the area to the north east . |
| 13 | Erm erm in respect of the West Yorkshire greenbelt . |
| 14 | The vineyards of Ludes are sandwiched between those of Chigny-les-Roses and the grand cru of Mailly-Champagne on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 15 | A descending order or pri importance f in in terms of the strategic thinking . |
| 16 | The principal point made in the first discussion paper on Finance is that the United Kingdom in 1973/74 contributed £313 million towards the support of Northern Ireland services , the equivalent of £200 per annum per head of the population . |
| 17 | The second amount bore a twofold significance , since a statute of the previous century stipulated a minimum of £20 per annum for justices of the peace , while two of the sumptuary acts evidently assumed this to have been the minimum for any gentleman by defining a class ‘ under the degree of gentlemen ’ , including university graduates , having £10 a year in lands or £100 in goods — a clear reference , it would seem , to merchants . |
| 18 | It 's to keep you invested in building societies , only they , they 're frantic because all the money 's going out and they want to keep their erm their erm deposits up , so they 're offering these schemes , and they are quite good , there are no charges as such , but er you 'll get the value of the fund that they 've made , or you 'll get a say two or three percent bonus per annum on top of the er share rate , er if you keep it for four or five years . |
| 19 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 20 | The combined offices of Clerk to the Council and Clerk of the Signet at the Council in the Marches brought in £900 per annum in fees towards the end of the century . |
| 21 | RADIO CLYDE 'S profit rose 28 per cent to £1.9million on turnover up 23 per cent at £7.76million in the year to September 30 . |
| 22 | RADIO CLYDE 'S profit rose 28 per cent to £1.9million on turnover up 23 per cent at £7.76million in the year to September 30 . |
| 23 | On 19 March the major central banks renounced the commitment to maintain their exchange rates within a band of + 2.25 per cent with respect to the dollar . |
| 24 | After the seventh month of his presidency ( July ) , Reagan 's popular approval rating , according to Gallup , was 60 per cent which compares with 66 per cent for Carter , 62 per cent for Nixon and 73 per cent for Kennedy at the comparable point in their first terms . |
| 25 | For females aged over 21 there was a 281 per cent increase ( compared to 136 per cent for males of the same age group ) . |
| 26 | Between 1967 and 1980 the Consumer Price Index rose by 67 per cent , whereas during the same period campaign expenditures for House elections rose by 163 per cent and by 150 per cent for elections to the Senate . |
| 27 | The non-strikers , at the other extreme , comprising the two fields ( Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire-South Derbyshire-Warwickshire ) which had less than 15 per cent on strike in the early weeks of the dispute , and less than 5 per cent when it was six months old . |
| 28 | According to the URA , the total number of loans made in Central North Side included 59 per cent on properties in the Mexican War Streets area already introduced as one of historic and architectural merit . |
| 29 | At a meeting in Edinburgh COSLA leaders said they needed an extra seven point three per cent on top of the five point two billion pounds local councils spent last year . |
| 30 | At the other extreme , there are the PEP managers who levy an additional PEP charge of between 1 and 2 per cent initial and 0.5 per cent on top of the unit trust charges . |