Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lengthy discussions between the coalition partners on March 6 eventually resulted in an agreement that both German parliaments and governments would issue a declaration of intent after March 18 to the effect that " Germans will neither now or in the future call [ the Polish people 's ] right to live within secure borders into question by raising territorial claims " ; there would be no linking with the reparations issue or with the protection of a German minority in Poland . |
| 2 | The contract , which runs for a five-year period from 1 November 1992 , covers the provision of maintenance personnel for the production facilities on Amoco 's NW Hutton , Montrose Alpha , Arbroath , Everest and Lomond platforms . |
| 3 | The ladies ' sighs of relief , as the sound of their partners ' cars disappeared with distance , indicated that the gentlemen would certainly not be missed , as long as the flood of money engendered by the discovery of oil in Alberta continued to flow so gratifyingly into their joint bank accounts during the boom years of the 1950s . |
| 4 | In Chapter 3 the focus will be directed instead on those contacts between the guberniia centres of Saratov and Samara and Moscow which were crucial for the alleviation of the famine conditions . |
| 5 | In addition , the separation of data structures made it difficult to follow the interactions between the knowledge bases in the pursuit of a hypothesis . |
| 6 | The group has studied the role of interactions between the selenium atoms in different stacks of TMTsF molecules ( see Figure ) . |
| 7 | Jean Parmiter apologised on behalf of the Training Committee for the number of changes which had had to be made in the advertised programmes for the training days in 1981–82 . |
| 8 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 9 | It was agreed that regional staff of several disciplines would need to be seconded or appointed to ‘ spearhead the closures ’ , while the routine meetings between the management teams of the region and the districts could be used to discuss details of implementation . |
| 10 | There are some striking parallels between the show trials of New York which have stemmed from the Boesky confessions and the Guinness case . |
| 11 | Values for the absorption coefficients of several different gases in water at s.t.p. are shown in table 6.1 . |
| 12 | Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example . |
| 13 | At times during the dog days of summer , deeper parts of the bay become anoxic . |
| 14 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 15 | But can you imagine your average suddenly-made-redundant collector of taxes happily spending the rest of his or her working life scraping the scraps off the dinner plates of the overfed rich ? |
| 16 | In the North-Eastern Province clashes continued in late 1989 between the various Tamil groups as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE , or Tamil Tigers ) sought to replace their rivals , principally the two pro-Indian groups , the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) and the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front ( ENDLF ) , and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization ( TELO ) , in the areas vacated by the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) . |
| 17 | They spoke a few more words about the liaison arrangements with the local force , then Mercer left to supervise the removal of the body . |
| 18 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 19 | He criticised the way the selection of referees for the knock-out stages of the World Cup had been made , conveniently ignoring the fact that René Hourquet had been selected , only to turn down the appointment . |
| 20 | They had replaced private wheelclamp units as the Bogey Men of middle-class London . |
| 21 | Patsy spoke absently as she greased the trays for the queen cakes with a scrap of butter paper . |
| 22 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |
| 23 | The system should not in any way restrict the contribution of any of the members of the team ; it should enhance their efforts by providing routine channels for the routine aspects of their activities , so that they are not obliged to devote intellectual effort to them . |
| 24 | A contrast in styles between the Transport Offices of the Thirties and the Victorian Blundell Street Depot . |
| 25 | FOLLOWING the success of the Midland Railway Centre two excursion trains to London for Christmas Shopping which both departed from Butterley Station , the Trust is now discussing the possibility of operating a number of other trips during the summer months with Regional Railways for 1993 . |
| 26 | Habitats with extreme climates and little vegetation have small mammal faunas with low species richness and low equitability , but these are also the characteristics of the prey assemblages of some predators , particularly , for instance , short-eared owls and great grey owls . |
| 27 | It was utilised to explore the characteristics of the information objects to be covered by the IPS , eg determining the form of the information to suit the users ’ needs , and assessing whether or not the objects that then existed were adequate . |
| 28 | ‘ Access to Enterprise ’ is primarily an educational development programme aimed at influencing the curriculum and teaching methods of the undergraduate courses in the University . |
| 29 | This speedy review of pre-war Japanese history is a necessary scenario against which to assess the motives and methods of the reform policies of the US occupation after Japan 's unconditional surrender in 1945 . |
| 30 | Such is Kylie 's potential in the eyes of the showbusiness speculators of Hollywood however that the musical may have to wait until she has made another movie . |