Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROBERT Brooke 's comments in May issue 's Milestones about the ‘ recall ’ of J.W. Hearne for the Oval Test match against South Africa make more sense if it is appreciated that , with the rubber already won , the England side for the Fourth Test at Manchester was an ‘ experimental team ’ . |
| 2 | The first product offered by Phonelink was DataCare , a bureau service for the automated bulk retrieval of telephone numbers . |
| 3 | In general , hotels cater for the medium-sized business conference , as shown by the following table : |
| 4 | And no doubt a busy night of police questioning for The Hooded Owl company at the Variety Theatre . |
| 5 | Neil Sedaka , writer of Breaking Up is Hard to Do and Laughter In The Rain had played the Albert Hall last night , but showed just as much enthusiasm for the provincial stage.Mike Rowbottom reports |
| 6 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 7 | This would be made up of something between £50 and £70 a foot for the actual development cost , and the balance for the site cost . |
| 8 | Then repeat the calculations for the actual construction programme , making due allowance for exceptionally adverse weather and delays which are at the contractor 's risk . |
| 9 | A number of interviewees ( 12 per cent ) stated that they did not object to nominating others for the actual snowball sample itself because they could first ask the nominee , but would not furnish identity codes on an indiscriminate basis . |
| 10 | I mean for the actual Christmas period , Christmas Day , Boxing Day and so on . ’ |
| 11 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 12 | The eight-month-old tot , flown to Teesside from his home in Romania for the delicate brain operation as a last chance hope for survival , suffers from hydrocephalus water on the brain . |
| 13 | Their present tennis range is led by Caroline , a lightweight , durable shoe for the casual lady player . |
| 14 | Although some lectures appear to be for the committed DIY enthusiast such as ‘ Mortar mixing and brick laying ’ , the organiser Steven Parissien , insists that the course is more about ‘ making people aware of which things are structurally disastrous and visually awful . ’ |
| 15 | This is the reason for the committed marketing budget . |
| 16 | ‘ ( 3 ) A person who has been released on bail in criminal proceedings and is under a duty to surrender into the custody of a court may be arrested without warrant by a constable — ( a ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is not likely to surrender to custody ; ( b ) if the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that that person is likely to break any of the conditions of his bail or has reasonable grounds for suspecting that that person has broken any of those conditions ; or … ( 4 ) A person arrested in pursuance of subsection ( 3 ) above — ( a ) shall , except where he was arrested within 24 hours of the time appointed for him to surrender to custody , be brought as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours after his arrest before a justice of the peace for the petty sessions area in which he was arrested ; and ( b ) in the said excepted case shall be brought before the court at which he was to have surrendered to custody . |
| 17 | Such insistences provided one important rationale for the criminal law approach to sexual reform . |
| 18 | But the law itself constitutes a further problem for the criminal justice system . |
| 19 | It did not look at rape as a social problem nor did it have regard to the difficulties which rape poses for the criminal justice system . |
| 20 | In 1904 the Daily Mail published his campaign against what he considered to be the unjust imprisonment of Adolf Beck which , it was claimed , was partly responsible for the Criminal Appeal Act , 1907 . |
| 21 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 22 | Later on you can turn the small pit into a muddy puddle for the odd water lily , and contemplate , while scratching mosquito bites , whether the building of a few sandcastles justified a hole in the patio or the loss of a dream border to that safe , but monotonous , area of lawn . |
| 23 | The ‘ Entebbe Maths ’ is the popular name for the African Mathematics Programme which in turn is part of the African Education Programme ( AEP ) of the American Education Development Center ( EDC ) formerly Educational Services Incorporated . |
| 24 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 25 | The circuit for the 2-bit data latch is shown in Fig. 12 and the Plugblock layout in Fig 13 . |
| 26 | During a five-day trip to South-east Asian countries prior to the Irkutsk meeting , Baker had failed to secure the support of the region 's foreign ministers for the recent significant shift in US policy towards Cambodia [ see p. 37598 ] , involving the withdrawal of US support for the three-party opposition coalition and the opening of direct talks with Vietnam . |
| 27 | Adding this in and multiplying by a factor of 2 produces the delay for the round trip Earth Venus-Earth : . |
| 28 | Ramsay MacDonald , while he was Prime Minister , spoke at the annual dinner , and Gandhi accepted an invitation while he was in England for the Round Table Conference in 1933 . |
| 29 | We believe that an appropriate model for the electrical signal conduction pathway in plants may be provided by the well established epithelial conduction system of animals . |
| 30 | Although this balance is not entirely based on direct measurements , it shows how the observed interactions between sulphate reducing bacteria and methanogenic bacteria in vivo can be understood as competition for the mutual substrate hydrogen . |