Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ? |
| 2 | We can work out the total increase in income by recalling that the slope of the withdrawals line is equal to the sum of the marginal propensities to save and import ( given that , in this model , the marginal propensity to tax is zero ) . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the total increase in uneployment throughout the countries of the Common Market during the past year ; and what was the percentage of that increase in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Four more of the cartel 's prominent leaders had surrendered to the authorities on July 4 bringing the total number in custody to 13 , including the cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 5 | This paper is based on extensive collections made by three institutions : The Centre Oceanologique de Bretagne — Biogas investigations in the Bay of Biscay , Biovema in the Vema Fracture Zone , Demeraby in the Demerara Abyssal Plain and the INCAL cruise in conjunction with the IOS and SMBA in the NE Atlantic ; the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences — Discovery Investigations off North Africa and in the Porcupine Seabight ; the Scottish Marine Biological Association 's investigations in the Rockall Trough . |
| 6 | The term normally appears on the right-hand side in place of . |
| 7 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 8 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 9 | This gentler style was the prevailing influence in gardening during most of the following century . |
| 10 | He , and the leaders of the extremist parties in coalition with him , are motivated primarily by ideology . |
| 11 | When I carried out a survey of undergraduates and their use of books at Sheffield University I needed a sample of all undergraduates in the university during the academic year of the study.8 It was quite a revelation , talking to the Assistant Registrar in charge of records , to discover how difficult it was to define a ‘ student ’ for my purposes . |
| 12 | I assure the grim-faced surgeons in front of me that representations will be made to the shipping line on our return to Cairo , and that , meanwhile , the Captain and I will , after appropriate consultation , revamp the menus . |
| 13 | The pattern was similar last summer , with the premieres of David Blake 's The Plumber 's Gift at the Coliseum and John Casken 's Golem at the Almeida , while the London International Opera Festival brought Udo Zimmermann 's Die Weisse Rose , another work to have done the European rounds in triumph before landing here . |
| 14 | ‘ In determining any question as to the meaning or effect of any provision contained in Schedule 4 — ( a ) regard shall be had to any relevant principles laid down by the European Court in connection with Title II of the 1968 Convention and to any relevant decision of that court as to the meaning or effect of any provision of that Title ; … |
| 15 | The ECSC had not conditioned the European public in favour of supranationalism , nor had the key interest groups in coal and steel , whether the industries were publicly or privately owned , emerged as a vanguard of European integration . |
| 16 | The country had entered a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) with the CARICOM countries on Oct. 27 , 1989 — in an effort to win their support for its accession to the Lomé Convention [ see p. 37133 ] — to refrain from exporting bananas to the European Communities in competition with other African , Caribbean and Pacific producers . |
| 17 | The European Parliament in session in Strasbourg . |
| 18 | We 're also engaged with the European Community in discussion over a bid for funding to develop social work , child protection and alternatives to institutional care and to other child care systems within Romania . |
| 19 | Filippo Pandolfi , vice-president of the European Commission in charge of research , has further remarked that the adopted procedures may help to avoid errors and falsification of research , which in recent years has been a controversial issue in the US . |
| 20 | There is alarm at the subtle changes in reaction to the new insulin , which seems to give less warning of the danger of erratic sugar control . |
| 21 | Johnny Dee , he of the flat-top skull and map-reading talents , wandered amongst the flaming buildings in search of a cab . |
| 22 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 23 | On Oct. 23 a general strike was declared in the Occupied Territories in rejection of the Madrid conference . |
| 24 | The opposition Labour Party made clear that it would support concessions on the occupied territories in exchange for peace . |
| 25 | The strong argument in favour of classifying such offences as attempted rape rather than merely indecent assault has now been recognized by the Law Commission 's draft Criminal Code , and the Court of Appeal has recently found its way to this conclusion by ‘ interpreting ’ the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 . |
| 26 | Their work did not receive much attention , however , because at just about that time most people abandoned the original string theory of the strong force in favor of the theory based on quarks and gluons , which seemed to fit much better with observations . |
| 27 | He came through as she was slamming the food on to the low coffee-table in front of the obediently blazing fire . |
| 28 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 29 | Ross 's voice broke through her unhappy thoughts , his dark eyebrows raised as he saw the half-empty wine bottle on the low table in front of her . |
| 30 | The Honourable A. P. J. Vigars , who was at Cambridge two years ahead of Howard ; the retiring figure in Trinity of whom all the great men of Howard 's generation were in awe . |