Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same passage , despite the narrow constriction of the valley at Djerdap , as the Danube forces its way between the Transylvanian Alps to the north and the Stara Planina to the south , may also have been a route for invaders into the Roman province of Pannonia , although the Iron Gate Pass , some 130 km ( 80 miles ) further north , afforded a better route for the Goths who descended on Pannonia from Transylvania in the middle of the fourth century AD . |
| 2 | Expectations will be identified explicitly , making it easier to simulate alternative policies under a variety of assumptions about the way expectations are formed , and the way investigations are formed , and the investigation of the robustness of different policies . |
| 3 | ‘ A number of district officers have been asked to look at a variety of projects across the service , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In 1989 some half of the £8.8 million thus raised went on training future clergy , the rest on a variety of projects including the running of General Synod itself . |
| 5 | The process of socialization involves forming ideas of family life in children by a variety of devices including the stories that children read . |
| 6 | The course was well received and will be offered a variety of venues in the coming year . |
| 7 | It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history . |
| 8 | A verb or adverb , however , is unlikely to be as strongly constrained to one domain and will therefore be more general in its use ( e.g. ’ withdraw ’ , ’ open ’ and ’ save ’ all have a variety of meanings besides the financial sense ) . |
| 9 | There are a variety of paths around the reserve as well as local bridleways and footpaths you can link up with to make a longer walk . |
| 10 | If these moderators are present ( we discuss what these are in a moment ) then work will be experienced as meaningful if it requires a variety of skills from the worker , if a complete piece of work is done ( task identity ) , and if the worker sees the task to be of significance . |
| 11 | Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network . |
| 12 | The WRVS was founded during the Second World War and has around 150,000 volunteers ( 13% of whom are men ) providing a variety of services in the community . |
| 13 | It is recognised however that PC(a) requires pupils to identify a variety of viewpoints on the issue , and therefore they may have to include differing views . |
| 14 | In the simplest terms , the daily timing system consists of a body clock that is synchronized by external time-cues and that sends information to a variety of systems in the body and so produces daily rhythms in them . |
| 15 | The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system . |
| 16 | Since retiring as a GP he has continued to perform a variety of tasks for the Order . |
| 17 | This programme ( see Chapter 3 ) involved the spending of over £400 million by a variety of agencies on the regeneration of east Glasgow , through the creation of new business centres , industrial development schemes , environmental improvements and substantial housing renewal and rehabilitation ( Leclerc and Draffan , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | These data suggest that post transplant HBV infection is accompanied by a variety of changes in the liver allograft , some of which are unique to the transplanted liver and may result in impaired allograft function . |
| 19 | The SAC issued a critical review , recommending a variety of changes in the way the RSNO — then known as the Royal Scottish Orchestra — was run . |
| 20 | What this difference means is not clear ; it could be a manifestation of a variety of factors including the very different financial circumstances of the two groups ! |
| 21 | For daughters who take on the role the identification of the caring responsibility is probably much more complex and is related to a variety of factors including the services which are available , the needs of the older person , the type of relationship and feelings of filial responsibility . |
| 22 | A variety of factors in the stimuli presented have been found to influence selection . |
| 23 | The gynaecological department at Middlesbrough is now the leading unit in Britain , treating a variety of women with the latest technology and minimum surgery . |
| 24 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 25 | There would be a variety of variations in the order that the circumstances of a particular transaction might require . |
| 26 | Alternative careers — a number of LEAs have mounted events involving school pupils in non–traditional activities providing girls ( and boys ) with the opportunity of ‘ having a go ’ at a variety of activities across the whole employment range . |
| 27 | It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups . |
| 28 | This division enunciated in 1897 stayed with Pareto in a variety of forms for the rest of his work , and is the source of his later arguments about the importance of ‘ residues ’ , the common basic sentiments which determine human conduct and which are the basic unit of analysis . |
| 29 | It also describes how to run the Validate program to check the integrity of the LIFESPAN database and the LISTREL ( LIFESPAN Relationship Listing ) program to produce a variety of reports on the contents of the LIFESPAN system . |
| 30 | This User Guide explains how to use LIFESPAN PMR , the LIFESPAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT REPORTS Program , which allows a variety of reports on the content and state of Design Changes(DCs) , Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) and Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) within LIFESPAN to be produced . |