Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the American approach to community care does not necessarily diverge from that of Europe where the response of state agencies to public opinion is concerned . |
| 2 | Then there was the debate at the National Union of Teachers ' conference about the response to government plans for teacher assessment . |
| 3 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 4 | The addition of Navy personnel to the Simonova 's regular complement had clearly brought about a certain amount of re-allocation of accommodation . |
| 5 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 6 | In the light of this , the addition of depreciation charges to water revenue accounts is justified . |
| 7 | For example , the addition of magnesium fertilizers in Norway and Germany 's Black Forest has resulted in recovery in young spruce trees that had been suffering chlorosis ( Printz , 1987 ) . |
| 8 | Gresham Telecomputing has increased the scope of its Dataserve range of ICL communications products with the addition of client versions of the product for VME , VMS and Unix-based systems , with a Windows version following later in the year . |
| 9 | In the phylum Mollusca — the molluscs which include the majority of sea animals with shells — the class Gastropoda includes all the snails , and the class Bivalvia all the clams ( mussels , scallops , etc . ) . |
| 10 | While the majority of pub buildings from the post-1914 period survive , however , it is virtually impossible to find an unaltered interior in any of them . |
| 11 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 12 | rebate while the majority of pensioner couples with modest savings or occupational pensions will have to pay the full council tax ? |
| 13 | To be elected , a candidate should receive more than half of the votes cast nationally and in the majority of union republics in a more than 50 per cent poll . |
| 14 | Furthermore , it has been reported that the majority of heroin users in Glasgow , Edinburgh and London preferred to inject heroin , as did up to 400 users in a study in Leeds in 1985 ( Polley et al . |
| 15 | Whereas in Scotland over 36 per cent of graduates obtained a pass , ordinary or general degree in 1986 , the figure for the UK as a whole was only 12.7 per cent , with the majority of pass degrees in England being in the fields of medicine , dentistry or veterinary science ( Source : USR ) . |
| 16 | She confirmed my suspicions that the majority of office computers in London contain nothing more vital than the personal cv's of thousands of job-hunting junior staff . |
| 17 | If one looks at the majority of market experiments in which convergence to the market equilibrium is rapid , one sees that the decision-problem solved by the subjects in such experiments is relatively simple ; recently , however , there have been a number of more complicated market experiments in which the subjects face more complicated decision-problems . |
| 18 | The fully battened main is cut with five ref points , enabling the majority of sail reductions to be made on this sail . |
| 19 | Book of Plumbing and Central Heating is intended for the home owner who would like to carry out the majority of plumbing jobs in the home but lacks the necessary knowledge and experience . |
| 20 | Colonel John Sidney North , on the other hand , spoke for the majority of Punch enthusiasts in the House , and ‘ could not understand why they should be so mealy-mouthed about flogging a set of ruffians ’ , denouncing anyone who dissented from flogging as ‘ a wretched old woman for his lenity ’ . |
| 21 | For example , if the majority of adult members of society enter into marriage and produce children , these facts can be observed and quantified . |
| 22 | Snell and Millar ( 1987 ) have estimated that about 30 per cent of all families receiving parish relief under the old Poor Law ( prior to 1834 ) were lone mothers ; and Thane ( 1978 ) has pointed out that , throughout the period of the operation of the new Poor Law , women ( often widows or deserted or separated mothers ) made up the majority of adult recipients of relief . |
| 23 | Despite the fact that about 95% of that can be recycled , very little actually is , but this is not because of people 's ignorance , but more because the majority of district councils in Britain provide insufficient Recycling services . |
| 24 | The fragmentation of council functions between different departments and committees produced in many authorities prior to the 1970s ‘ a loose confederation of disparate activities ’ which , in the view of the Maud Committee on the Management of Local Government ( Maud Report , 1967 , vol. 1 ) , dispersed ‘ responsibilities and scatter[ed] the taking of decisions ’ . |
| 25 | The national immunization campaign failed to achieve any commendable coverage because of the fragmentation of health services as a result of the Buntustan system . |
| 26 | Out at the line-up , the three men were climbing over a routine thirty-five-footer when they heard screaming and the toot of car horns from the beach . |
| 27 | Irregularities did indeed force the annulment of first-round results in 33 constituencies , albeit not all in Albanian populated areas . |
| 28 | Many cases have subsequently been brought claiming the annulment of Community measures on the grounds that they were founded on the wrong legal base , the underlying purpose of such actions being to defend or strengthen the powers of the applicant Member State or institution . |
| 29 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 30 | ‘ Buyers are beginning to take advantage of the large number of attractive fixed rate mortgage products which have been announced following the reduction of base rates in late January . ’ |