Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emerged yesterday that , from the moment Ferranti acquired International Signal and Control two years ago , executives were put on alert about the suspect contracts because , unusually , they involved the granting of credit on open account to sub-contractors and intermediaries . |
| 2 | Certainly he believed his action was right for the opinion polls . |
| 3 | The place was supposed to be dangerous because the path was too narrow between the gorse bushes and the edge : it stood to reason , she stumbled over in the wind . |
| 4 | Some horses from the village , which were left to graze untended for the monsoon months , looked up as they passed . |
| 5 | Let's see , from the top and grossing it up on a worldwide basis , it 's roughly fifty for the visor , two hundred for shirts and sweaters , just under fifty for the golf gloves , and a hundred for the trousers . ’ |
| 6 | In some cases , it 's possible for the scheme trustees to split the widow 's pension between both wives , if the man was paying maintenance to his ex-wife ; but the pension is often not big enough to make this worthwhile . |
| 7 | As it is possible for the allotment letters to be dealt with in this 21 day period , rights issues are attractive to institutional shareholders as they may be able to sell the rights to subscribe . |
| 8 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's his wife who 's upset about the way things are going . ’ |
| 10 | There is nothing specific about the ball bearings : nothing that makes them more suitable to one situation rather than another . |
| 11 | Were you in any sort of A R P unit or anything like that during the war years ? |
| 12 | These however , were summer hours , and as the days shortened into winter with lighting not practicable for the surface sheds and floors — no work was done before or after daylight . |
| 13 | Their advice , even today when it is more flexible and politically sensitive , consequently often falls on deaf ears , not because the economic logic is at fault but because the political factors in the equation are both unquantifiable and subjective for the decision takers . |
| 14 | If you come alive as the sum sets , you need fast , reliable styling products that will transform ‘ daytime hair ’ into high style evening wear . |
| 15 | An ugly church , monstrous and vulgar as the cloth merchants who had built it . |
| 16 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 17 | The one position I had trouble with was keeper , were I could n't find anyone as truly awful as the outfield players , so suggestions for the keeper are welcome . |
| 18 | The current popular level of application of smoke vents to some 3–5% of the floor area does seem low for the fire loads and rate of growth of fire , likely to be experienced in high-bay warehouses particularly when it is borne in mind that unless similar automatic ingress vent areas are provided at low level the effective ceiling vent areas might well be halved ! |
| 19 | However , to reduce the scope for dispute , it is preferable for the contract documents to refer expressly to the terms in the catalogue and incorporate them by reference . |
| 20 | Use order code MAS for the Master Shears , £15.95 ; and MUL for the Multi Shears , at £13.95 , including VAT , p+p . |
| 21 | There are three bells in the belfry dating from 1594 but ringing of the bells ceased in 1935 as the bell rollers became in need of extensive repairs . |
| 22 | There are three gas furnaces , one each for the steam hammers , drop stamps , and rolling mill . |
| 23 | You should have told them that about the poppy seeds . |
| 24 | As will be seen later in this chapter , the type of analysis used for the financial accounts is unsuitable for the cost accounts . |
| 25 | Several of these are the homes of major defence contractors ( such as Boeing in Washington ) , and should be among the major beneficiaries of the defence appropriation process ; some of the links are less obvious , such as that between the alfalfa producers of inland Texas and the production of military uniforms . |
| 26 | The most important division between industries is that between the oil companies and the rest . |
| 27 | they did that for the school children |
| 28 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 29 | Users of league tables should compare their own setting with that for the source studies included . |
| 30 | I too could give you a very good speech on traffic island but I 'll save that for the Transportation Highways and Engineering Sub- Committee . |