Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10–5- They found " that for the present at least no arrangement preferable to the present appeared practicable . " |
| 2 | Why are there such a multiplicity of counts , and sometimes of defendants , with long opening speeches and insufficient identification of the issues for the jury until nearly the end of a trial ? |
| 3 | They were indeed too enthusiastic , for the demands of several burgh councils could prove too much for the resources of even the best-endowed East India Company director . |
| 4 | The dominant thread has been a key role for the state in both the accumulation and distribution of wealth echoing the role of pre-colonial states such as Asante , Buganda and UrOzwi discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 5 | South Armagh , once known as bandit country , is notorious for the operations of arguably the most effective and committed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army . |
| 6 | So giving us a total income for the year of about a hundred and twelve thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 8 | The polytechnics of the new binary policy were to be a key group of partners for the CNAA from roughly the beginning of the 1970s : the Assistant Director of Hatfield Polytechnic spoke of the polytechnics and the CNAA as ‘ inseparable … |
| 9 | She had since left the New York City Ballet , and was working as a counsellor for the blind at both the Lighthouse and the Jewish Guild . |
| 10 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 11 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 12 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 13 | East Lindsey has a very healthy distribution of nature reserves and conservation areas , meticulously maintained for the benefit of both the indigenous wildlife and the visiting general public . |
| 14 | The outcome of the review was very much in favour , not only of retaining the department , but also of increasing and improving existing services for the benefit of both the Council and the Governing Bodies of Sport . |
| 15 | That 's a price DG could never hope to match , indeed Motorola could probably fulfill DG 's entire CPU requirements for the part in just a straight two week run on its fab line . |
| 16 | Well , there was n't much Maureen could do about this injury , but the wound did heal up nicely and she cared for the bird for over a year . |
| 17 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 18 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 19 | Everyone has the gift of life — and for the sake of just a little pain over a week it 's a wonderful opportunity to take . |
| 20 | Public perception of the war in Europe was of a senseless conflict fought out in the mud and filth of Flanders , with thousands killed each day for the sake of only a few yards of territory soon lost in the next offensive . |
| 21 | During the coming year the Press will be installing a text handling system for the use of both the Publisher 's editorial and the Printer 's composition staff . |
| 22 | The distinction between these two ways of conceiving permission accounts for the use of either the bare or the to infinitive here . |
| 23 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
| 24 | It is thought that this might give relief to the husband for capital gains tax for the period from when the settlement is established ( ie the court order or when the agreement between the parties was finalised ) until its termination , but the application of this section to such a situation is not wholly clear . |
| 25 | These three decisions alone show the cutting-edge of semi-literacy winning over the high cultural standards that the BBC is supposed to stand for , and indeed the justification — the only one — for the subvention of over a billion pounds a year from the British taxpayer . |
| 26 | Rangers retain reservations about the security arrangements for the visit of even a reduced support . |
| 27 | In fact , there was considerable debate in official circles during the time of both the Labour administration of 1945–51 and the subsequent Conservative administration about the consequences of black immigration on the ‘ racial character ’ of the British , and several covert and sometimes illegal administrative measures were put into operation to discourage black immigration ( Carter , Harris and Joshi , 1987 ) . |
| 28 | As the evaluation of both the Major and Minor Projects shows , teachers in project schools did argue with force that the use made of the library by both teachers and pupils had increased in volume and changed in kind . |
| 29 | Moreover , the Leicester mosaics themselves can hardly be construed as the work of exactly the same group of craftsmen , because the St. Nicholas Street mosaic appears to include work of a standard below that of any in the Blackfriars mosaic ( see section 4.4 ) . |
| 30 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |