Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New trade routes may be traced by the spread of metalworking skills and the import of rare and exotic materials such as gemstones and ivory for jewellery . |
| 2 | The Royal Commission ( 1949 , Chapter 15 ) while uncertain that the trend of ‘ national intelligence ’ really was downwards , felt that ‘ it is clearly undesirable for the welfare and cultural standards of the nation that our social arrangements should be such as to induce those in the higher income groups and the better educated and more intelligent within each income group to keep their families not only below replacement level but below the level of others ’ . |
| 3 | I mean we ca n't go into the private market and expect them or asking them to provide houses erm affordable houses as I say the question is what 's an affordable house , who 's got the money to buy the house I would presume , but obviously we know the situation is it 's the lower rent of market , the lower income groups and the unemployed that are suffering very much reasonable accommodation at a rent or at a price they can afford and I reckon this is what hopefully the government was after to say whether we 'll put in our policy and hope that we can get things . |
| 4 | Occupancy change and the farmed landscape |
| 5 | The report criticizes architects , designers , building operators and the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) for not paying sufficient attention to air quality . |
| 6 | On May 20 the human rights organization Amnesty International had expressed concern at the lack of access of defence counsel and the " selection " process for the 200 detainees waiting to be tried . |
| 7 | There are two limiting cases to consider : the weak field case and the strong field case . |
| 8 | Leaving aside discussion of case loads and the closure of cases ( to be covered below ) the development officers found this referral rate entirely manageable except towards the end of the referral year when case loads were at their peak and referrals were also high ; for example , the development officer in Newham remarked in January l985 ‘ I feel a bit shell-shocked this month with ail the new referrals together with all my problem cases ’ . |
| 9 | The problems of over–crowded teaching programmes and the difficulties this brings for students and staff are recognised . |
| 10 | Although limited by the Parliament Acts and the convention of non-involvement in financial matters , the House of Lords is the only such check . |
| 11 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 12 | Yet , as the champagne flows and the cheers resound , as diamonds and pearls shimmer on black dresses and white-gloved waiters slice their way through the crowd with continuous supplies of Bucks Fizz or just straight champagne , there does n't seem to be much love for particular MPs . |
| 13 | Refinery staff , who had earlier feared that more oil had been lost , launched contingency plans and the nearby Oil Spill Service Centre was placed on alert . |
| 14 | Tom explained that throughout his life the horse develops two sets of teeth : the temporary or milk teeth and the permanent teeth . |
| 15 | The project considers parenting skills and the ability to stick things out , especially during the difficult first months . |
| 16 | Economic growth averaging some 3% per year is likely to the end of the century , despite current measures to curb the huge budget deficit and the probability of periodic banking crises as financial institutions , many of them over-extended by loans to energy producers , go to the wall . |
| 17 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 18 | The World Bank noted that India should continue with policies to reduce its budget deficit and the rate of inflation , combined with further measures for the liberalization of trade . |
| 19 | The structural adjustment policies of the government , designed to reduce the budget deficit and the country 's debt and to build up the depleted foreign exchange reserves were supported by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 20 | The decisions involved in a budget are never easy , but this year the Chancellor has to be concerned about the high and rising level of unemployment , the danger of renewed inflation as a result of the sharp depreciation of the pound , the large and rapidly growing budget deficit and the deficit on the balance of payments . |
| 21 | The decisions involved in a budget are never easy , but this year the Chancellor has to be concerned about the high and rising level of unemployment , the danger of renewed inflation as a result of the sharp depreciation of the pound , the large and rapidly growing budget deficit and the deficit on the balance of payments . |
| 22 | Thus in going down any Main Group of the Periodic Table ( p-block elements ) , both the increase of atom mass and the decrease in bond strength lead to a lowering of the stretching frequency . |
| 23 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 24 | Yet both the field notes and the evaluation report provide clear evidence that the staff had become much more aware of , and informed about , girls ' under-achievement in science and technology and the possible actions which schools could take . |
| 25 | Methods for analysing qualitative data — transcripts of interviews , verbal protocols , ethnographic field notes and the like — have until recently had to rely on little more than scissors , a copier and piles of paper . |
| 26 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 27 | Elsewhere , he was made acutely aware of the contrast between the colonial regency houses and the ugly jungle bungalows and villas . |
| 28 | Each one gives a history of the area , a list of all the local dive operators and the services they offer , as well as many other useful names and addresses including photographic specialists . |
| 29 | She devoted herself to trade unionism , suffrage , and adult education for women , working with the Manchester University Settlement and the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers ' Representation Committee . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a guy at school who had a 12-string guitar and the sound just blew my mind , and so I got one . |