Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 2 | This can be illustrated by the early examples of protection for individuals in the special treaty provisions for minorities ; the inclusion of human rights in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security ; and by the paucity of international mechanisms for the enforcement of those rights and freedoms . |
| 3 | Many people took this game of make-believe to fantastic lengths and went through the whole elaborate business of a preparation for escape without the slightest real intention of ever carrying it out . |
| 4 | All the students had successfully completed Longlands College 's preparation for entrance to the uniformed services course . |
| 5 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 6 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 7 | A congressional vote of censure on Oct. 25 on Borja 's first Government and on Justice Minister , Andrés Vallejo Arco and his subsequent resignation as President of the Monetary Board , was thought to have consolidated support for Bonilla . |
| 8 | He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme . |
| 9 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 10 | The high basicity of 2'-deoxy-3-deazaadenosine ( pk a 6.80 ) in comparison to that of 2'-deoxyadenosine ( pk a 3.62 ) ( 13 ) may lead to destabilisation of the helix through protonation of the 3-deazaadenine base at N -1 and the resultant loss of a Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding interaction . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that hyperglycaemia reduces gastrointestinal function through inhibition of the vagal cholinergic system . |
| 12 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 13 | In modern British society , this often takes the form of a left-right political division between fractions of the upper classes . |
| 14 | Or it may represent the God-given confusion which represents the opportunity for maturity outside the safe confines of the Garden of Eden . |
| 15 | Royal Institution audiences included the eminent in various walks of life , and the lecturer had an opportunity for evangelism among the mighty . |
| 16 | Despite the advantages of the best Unix systems , however , and the enhancements coming with Solaris 2.0 and OSF/1 , Brown reckons the window of opportunity for Unix on the commercial desktop will shut within two years . |
| 17 | Indeed , a number of authorities took ‘ the opportunity offered by the current preparation of the new statutory local plans to institutionalise negotiated planning control … the draft Westminster District Plan , for example , indicates unequivocally the council 's intention to pursue certain planning goals through agreements , in addition to establishing certain minimum gains to be included in planning applications or to be secured through negotiated amendments to submitted applications ’ An action area plan for Fareham , Hampshire , similarly states that ‘ planning permission for development in the proposed areas will not be granted until … negotiations between developers and the local authority for financial contributions have been concluded ’ . |
| 18 | That 's on top of securing a supply and maintenance contract for ponds at the latest Center Parcs complex at Elveden , and getting some surprise , but welcome , publicity as a result of treating a large , valuable and decidedly sick carp for an angling syndicate . |
| 19 | A decade ago yesterday , British Rail signed a million-pound contract for repairs on the Victorian Darlington Station 's roof . |
| 20 | THE recent attempts made by Hong Kong to have their sevens tournament accepted by the International Board as part of the official international calendar will not have been helped by the travesty to which they reduced this year 's tournament at the weekend . |
| 21 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 22 | There is certainly a case for subsidy on the social railway , but I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree with the judgment of the previous Labour Government , who said that there was no case for subsidising inter-urban services , nor was there a social case for subsidy with regard to inter-city services . |
| 23 | This is particularly the case for damage to the left hemisphere of the brain ; and this led to the concept of cerebral dominance : the idea that the left hemisphere dominated the right as far as their contributions to cognitive processing were concerned . |
| 24 | Accordingly the ‘ cohort's- including the family , especially Maurice Macmillan and Julian Amery-warmly urged the case for Hailsham at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 25 | In other areas too , it seems that the case for Woodchester as the final pavement of a sequence of elaborations " cuts with a double-edged blade " : at the beginning of the sequence , for example , it is difficult to understand how a twenty-five year long period of development had no other local influence . |
| 26 | The letter even speaks of their ‘ rights in the matter ’ , and it is perhaps surprising that the question was not asked whether there was a case for complaint to the European Court of Justice . |
| 27 | ( d ) Independent determinationThree questions arise in drafting a provision for determination of the new rent by an independent person . |
| 28 | There is provision for transfer between the ordinary honours degree courses , and from the HND Computer Studies courses ( see page 166 ) on the basis of academic performance . |
| 29 | There is provision for transfer between the ordinary and honours degree courses and from the BTEC HND Computer Studies ( Code CE1112 ) ( see page 167 ) course at Coleraine to the degree course , on the basis of academic performance . |
| 30 | There is provision for transfer between the ordinary and honours degree courses . |