Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling had little patience with the planning staffs ' obsession with large set-piece armoured battles in the desert . |
| 2 | A young probationary teacher and a student-teacher were also available for some periods of " fringe help , mostly supervisory " ( op. " cit. : 5 ) , but played little part in the planning discussions . |
| 3 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of part of the Consignment , to the proportion of the sum ascertained in accordance with ( 1 ) ( a ) of this Condition which the actual value of that part of the Consignment bears to the actual value of the whole of the Consignment . |
| 4 | After the Court was absorbed in the Exchequer in 1554 , that part of the Crown revenues was managed by ‘ Surveyors-General of Woods , Forests , Parks and Chases ’ , responsible to the Exchequer . |
| 5 | In Scotland the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act of 1968 had already created integrated ‘ social work depart ments ’ , in that case including the probation officers , who remained in a separate service independent of local government in England and Wales . |
| 6 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |
| 7 | The biggest daily peak comes around 5.00 pm , as homes switch on before industry switches off : There has been little research on the way consumers would respond to the various kinds of incentive that could be built into the electricity price structure . |
| 8 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 9 | First went the Sunday Chronicle , a failing product faced with stronger middle market competitors and pressure on each side from the quality papers and the downmarket tabloids . |
| 10 | I continued using this guitar for the distortion sounds and , as with the power amp and cabs , the Attax sounded too processed and clinical for my liking . |
| 11 | This unity in the Spirit bridges the gap between Jews and Gentiles once they become Christians ( Eph. 2:15 ) and breaks down the hostility between men of different col-ours and backgrounds . |
| 12 | ( And when they reappeared on screen , another wave of the plastic wands did the trick again . ) |
| 13 | It is also usual practice to spray a bouquet with water from an atomiser to keep it fresh , but it should be avoided in this case as the water droplets can mark the flowers , as well as possibly make the bouquet damp when the time comes for you to press it . |
| 14 | Although Keynes at one stage suggested that some part of the sterling balances should be cancelled , the idea was never taken up . |
| 15 | The equatorial and polar radii have been measured by various means and correspond to some level above the cloud tops . |
| 16 | It is also a good idea to make covers of some kind for the trailer tyres . |
| 17 | A company spokesman said : ‘ Discussions took place this afternoon with the shop stewards ’ committee to make our situation clear . |
| 18 | And the police said , ‘ Where 'd you get this bit about the road blocks ? ’ |
| 19 | for this part of the study controls comprised six normal colonic biopsy specimens and 18 biopsy specimens from inflammatory bowel disease patients ( 14 with ulcerative colitis and four with Crohn 's disease ) . |
| 20 | Nine two , you have a paper from the , which is a copy of the paper th , that the director of financial services submitted to the magistrate 's court committee management board , a response from the magistrate 's courts management board for the county council erm , I will move to note the response of the magistrate 's courts committee and to confirm our previous recommendation to the county council regarding this part of the policy resources committee budget . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , it 's not often the majority express themselves without some prompting from the shop stewards , ’ the convener replied , ‘ but in this instance the reaction was instantaneous . |
| 22 | This assessment by the health visitors showed a dramatic increase in their own awareness of infant foot health and the acceptability of introducing information earlier to new mothers . |
| 23 | Bodies have welcomed particularly this component of the application procedures , stating that it provides them with a good reference point for budgetary control through the course of their financial years . |
| 24 | We got a penny for each brick , and it was a wonderful thing for us to earn some money during the school holidays . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If the Labour group had followed our recommendations they would have gained a prestigious shopping development and made some money for the poll taxpayers into the bargain . ’ |
| 26 | Erm both the Labour and the Liberal parties , erm think it 's extremely important that we maintain this provision for the curriculum pupils who might wish to have petition early and we will maintain in full so the current level of provision under section eleven will be May next year , which puts a large sum on the money into that , this is growth in expenditure , the making up of government cuts , increasing the money we 're spending , it 's not increasing service , it 's simply continuing the current current policies but it will continue as it is now . |
| 27 | The very significant leap of 1982 , an increase of 73% , was partly to offset the dip in the previous three years and was in turn offset by another dip during the Léotard years ( 1986–88 ) . |
| 28 | This description of the hawthorn hedges of the Midlands is again , alas , no longer true in most places . |
| 29 | A list can even rise to evoking the mood of a picture , as in this description by the Goncourt brothers of Chardin 's subjects ; ‘ He introduces into his pictures his wash-basin , his mastiff puppy , the objects and the creatures to which he is accustomed in his home … the pure simple features of the working middle class , happy in its tranquillity , its labour and its obscurity . |
| 30 | ‘ If you do n't mind we should like to take another look at the upstairs rooms . ’ |