Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit .
2 Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 .
3 It was highly synchronized , occurring in all major capitalist countries it about the same time .
4 Decked The vast majority of events offer club-goings nothing but the same laborious DJ line-ups .
5 There were also some devices which counterbalanced this continual splitting of family resources , such as the partnership system of the family firm , marriage between cousins , and setting up trusts to provide income for daughters and wives which at the same time allowed the trustees , who were always men , to use the trust capital for the business .
6 Then it breaks out over an overlap onto the characteristic smooth slabs and walls which at the same time tempt and intimidate , attract but repel .
7 Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question .
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