Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among other things , he stressed the role of the railways in unifying the country , advocating state responsibility for these , and state protection for nascent industries from the tyranny of English free trade . |
| 2 | It was accepted that member states would operate their own national regional assistance instruments , whereas the Community 's preoccupation would be to ensure that national aid did not conflict with its competition policy , by providing protection for domestic industries under the guise of regional aid . |
| 3 | In 1976 , the government pegged the grant for future years to the 1975 level in real terms , while expecting a comparable service to be maintained . |
| 4 | By the closing years of the war the pacific complement of all this military collectivism was the preparation for social reconstruction with the onset of peace , carried out by the state and pursued with the assistance of its own investigative committees . |
| 5 | It needs to be of the highest possible standard , and the music which is used within it should represent a variety of styles and traditions , as a preparation for leading worship in the wider Church . |
| 6 | The Council has agreed to a request from British Rail for financial help for the scheme . |
| 7 | There was the possibility of kingfisher and water rail for early risers on the morrow . |
| 8 | Just hours after yesterday 's talks , three Israeli cabinet ministers signalled a fresh settlement for Soviet Jews on the occupied Golan Heights , calling it their response to Syrian demands for return of the disputed plateau . |
| 9 | the end of any age discrimination for voluntary participation in the statutory and the voluntary sectors , especially and initially from those bodies who have it within their own control so to devise and endorse ; |
| 10 | the end of any age discrimination for voluntary participation in the statutory and voluntary sectors , especially and initially from those bodies who have it within their own control to do so ; |
| 11 | ‘ Only when the West is strong will there be a real opportunity for peaceful negotiations with the aim of freeing not only the Soviet zone [ i.e. East Germany ] but also the whole of enslaved Eastern Europe beyond the Iron Curtain . ’ |
| 12 | Comtek ‘ 92 can , it seems , still justifiably be billed as Russia 's main trade event : this year the show attracted over 70 hard currency-paying exhibitors , most of which were Western companies ; that so many companies are willing to pay $350 per square metre is testimony to the fact that the Russian market retains the interest of a significant portion of Western companies ; show organiser Crocus International says it invited 200,000 ‘ specialists ’ to the show , but in reality , Comtek has become a popular event in all senses of the word with most companies using the show as an opportunity for general exposure to the Russian market rather than as a means of generating many hard sales leads . |
| 13 | As a result , official intervention into their lives offered police an easy opportunity for general surveillance of the poor neighbourhoods in which they resided . |
| 14 | Ground-based observations , on the other hand , offer an opportunity for remote sensing of the plasma in a given region over a prolonged period . |
| 15 | Since published sources for instrument makers are extremely scarce the French archives provide the best ( and perhaps the only ) opportunity for new research on the Hotteterres . |
| 16 | The Science and Technology Studies stream provides an opportunity for advanced study of the complex forces shaping modern technology . |
| 17 | In practice , this exercise provides an excellent opportunity for active collaboration between the firm 's accountant and responsible fee-earning staff . |
| 18 | This , of course , is one of the great advantages of informality , as it provides the opportunity for constant alterations to the garden . |
| 19 | The session provided the opportunity for conservative currents within the party to reassert themselves , following the split in July when reformist members had shifted their allegiance to the Left Alliance [ see pp. 38021 ; 38115 ; 38357 ] . |
| 20 | Two years later Aegidius himself died , providing opportunity for Visigothic expansion in the Loire valley . |
| 21 | A consequence of fig-wasp life-cycles is that the number of female wasps laying in a fig determines the opportunity for horizontal transmission by the nematodes . |
| 22 | FIVE WEEKS before Brazil 's first presidential elections in 29 years , an increasingly volatile political and economic situation favours a struggle between youthful candidates of the right and left . |
| 23 | there is a continuing struggle between accurate reflections on the distant surface of the river and increasingly rich golden browns as the eye sees down through the clear water in the foreground . |
| 24 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 25 | Bourgeois individualism has a long history of subversive bohemian variants ; and the struggle for control of the elements of counter cultural musical style was a struggle between different aspects of the same principle . |
| 26 | JV Dialogue , the sprawling banking software company , is to open an office in London : the aim of the office — which will be staffed with just one person — is to promote , distribute and support software developed in Russia by its constituent organisations ; the only success story for Soviet software in the West so far is that of Paragraph which has agreements with Apple Computer Inc and Go Corp on its cursive handwriting recognition software . |
| 27 | By this time , however , SAVE had received permission for judicial review of the ministers ’ decision and suddenly the picture changed entirely . |
| 28 | Negotiations are also taking place with the Development Board for financial help towards the project which will provide vital expansion space for new plant and machinery . |
| 29 | Enquiries related to redundant churches , and especially their adaptation , should be addressed in the first place either to the secretary of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee of the Diocese ( see diocesan handbook ) or to the Secretary of the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches of the Church Commissioners . |
| 30 | This was a Labour vote of censure on the government 's acceptance of the proposals from the Top Salaries Review Board for large increases in the pay of senior public servants . |