Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having talked for an hour about wild animals the teacher posed a question to one of her class . |
| 2 | And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers . |
| 3 | For criteria about knowledge of the relationships between metric units the difficulty factors concern the nature of the required answer — whether it is a whole number , a half or a decimal such as -0 or 00 . |
| 4 | It was true that it followed close on a humiliation for British arms the loss of the fortress of Tobruk in North Africa and the withdrawal of the Eighth Army to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 5 | This consists of : The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy Although there is no legal requirement for companies to comply with SSAP9 , auditors will expect the financial accounts of companies to meet the guidelines laid down . |
| 6 | To the prejudiced eyes of land-bound humans the oceans seem like one continuous mass , homogeneous as outer space . |
| 7 | Which could be seen as a good thing ; after all , in the eyes of sceptical guitarists the GR-1 could stand or fall on its immediate user-friendly appeal . |
| 8 | For the fry of large cichlids the food need not be this fine and one method to produce a powder fine enough is described below . |
| 9 | Through its programme of regular seminars the Institute also acts as a forum for discussion and exploration of matters of common concern to leading academic , legal and business figures in Scotland and their European counterparts . |
| 10 | To facilitate the study of Roman houses the following list of common terms is given . |
| 11 | But when the New Zealanders went in search of quick runs the following morning , they achieved their aims without too many alarms , thanks to bright knocks from all the lower order . |
| 12 | Any such scheme , though , is of dubious utility to the pragmaticist in search of functional principles the categories are of vague application , they do not have direct empirical motivation , and there are many other rival schemes built upon slightly different lines . |
| 13 | For a more extensive review of cognitive therapies the reader is referred to Dryden and Golden ( 1986 ) . |
| 14 | In its review of sexual offences the Criminal Law Revision Committee argued in favour of preserving the existing classification , on the basis that rape has a settled popular meaning and that the distinguishing feature of ‘ conventional ’ rape is the risk of pregnancy . |
| 15 | So it was natural that when a group of Australian promoters decided to stage a concert in aid of anti-drug charities the musical Minogue sisters leapt at the opportunity to combine fun with some serious fund raising . |
| 16 | It was reported on June 13 that after three months of intensive negotiations the inter-provincial talks on constitutional reform had collapsed without agreement . |
| 17 | By analogy with electromagnetic waves the e + and e x amplitudes can be added with phase differences of to obtain right ( left ) circularly polarized amplitudes . |
| 18 | For research with young children the department has a specially equipped Day Nursery . |
| 19 | Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed . |
| 20 | However , in experiments crossing animals from different populations the dominance was not so apparent . |
| 21 | Amongst teenagers in temporary jobs the importance of special measures was particularly pronounced . |
| 22 | For the remaining children excluded from the analysis because of missing data on other variables the mean values for FEV 1 , FVC , FEF 2 5 — 7 5 , and FEF 7 5 — 8 5 were -0.065 , -0.007 , -0.08 , and -0.043 standard deviation scores respectively compared with 0.024 , 0.014 , 0.018 , and 0.004 standard deviation scores for those included . |
| 23 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 24 | Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably losing battle . |
| 25 | This evening 's opening performance begins with the final of the first Olympic Star Spotters Championship , which aims to give riders of young horses the chance to test their potential stars . |
| 26 | Has not the Minister discussed with the chairman of British Airways the very large order for American planes with American engines ? |
| 27 | At contemporary Mucking , two Saxon cemeteries were found to accompany a widely dispersed scatter of sunken-floored buildings the same situation occurred at Eynsham in Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | When gifts and gratuities were a normal part of official incomes the line between the acceptable and the reprehensible was hard to draw . |
| 29 | Klipspringer were numerous on the cliffs at the top of the mountain , and there , above a thousand-foot precipice , I found among a mass of tumbled rocks the fresh tracks of leopard . |
| 30 | The advertisements show an office packed with industrial spies hot on the trail of technological secrets The advertisements tell inventors and small companies to make sure they protect their intellectual property with patents and trade marks . |