Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tinos is a two person backpacking tent worth £55 in the shops . |
| 2 | Many families have continued to attach great importance to the family line , adopting their daughter 's husband or another male as heir to the family name where there is no son to succeed . |
| 3 | All filming is produced to high archival standards producing three generations of film of which the archival negative is stored in suitable conditions and in a different building as part of the disaster control measures . |
| 4 | The Royal Society of Edinburgh 's former collection of foreign scientific periodicals , now located in the Causewayside Building as part of the SSL , continues to be maintained and catalogued by library staff . |
| 5 | Editor , — A B Kay deserves support in his attempt to persuade the General Medical Council ( GMC ) to provide far more effective protection for members of the public in relation to doctors who publicise treatments of unproved efficacy . |
| 6 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 7 | A general strike was held on Jan. 8 in support of demands for higher wages and pensions , new measures to combat unemployment , and protection for workers during the privatisation of state industries . |
| 8 | This can be illustrated by the early examples of protection for individuals in the special treaty provisions for minorities ; the inclusion of human rights in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security ; and by the paucity of international mechanisms for the enforcement of those rights and freedoms . |
| 9 | In some ways it is easy to share the enthusiasm of the Secretary of State for his new schools , financially independent ( except on the direct grant for students from the DES , paid on a per capita basis ) , yet with a rigidly controlled curriculum . |
| 10 | If you are receiving Income Support , Family Credit or Housing Benefit you may be able to get a grant for 90% of the cost up to a maximum of £144 . |
| 11 | Possibly we 're looking to reduce home help hours , but this is at a time when , at the same time I 'm saying to you , we 're having problems with our S T G , our special grant for care in the community . |
| 12 | These courses are also a preparation for work at the hardware/software interface and provide the potential for work in hardware design . |
| 13 | Many people took this game of make-believe to fantastic lengths and went through the whole elaborate business of a preparation for escape without the slightest real intention of ever carrying it out . |
| 14 | LANGUAGE FOR BANKING : AN INTRODUCTION TO TERMINOLOGY FOR EFL STUDENTS Collins 2984 128 pp Preparation for qualifications in the field of banking ( the AIB stages 1 & 11 ) to handle complex data and source material . |
| 15 | All the students had successfully completed Longlands College 's preparation for entrance to the uniformed services course . |
| 16 | There is a similar emphasis to be found on the educational preparation for citizenship in the report of the Speaker 's Commission . |
| 17 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
| 18 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 19 | This is an important consideration since it is related to the choice of target client group , and the critical importance of monitoring and repeated assessment as part of the process . |
| 20 | Or or why or do we need to try this , go into this business of a fairly complicated damages assessment as part of the liability claim . |
| 21 | Borland International Inc has now reached agreement with WordPerfect Corp for marketing of the Borland Office for Windows suite in international markets , and says it plans to start shipments within 60 days . |
| 22 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 23 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 24 | Lord Goold announced his resignation as chairman of the orchestra last autumn . |
| 25 | Immediately after the scale of the defeat became apparent , Kim offered his resignation as co-chairman of the DLP . |
| 26 | He remained a member of the Diet and , although he tendered his resignation as leader of the Takeshita faction , this was not accepted . |
| 27 | A congressional vote of censure on Oct. 25 on Borja 's first Government and on Justice Minister , Andrés Vallejo Arco and his subsequent resignation as President of the Monetary Board , was thought to have consolidated support for Bonilla . |
| 28 | This is the only plausible explanation I have found , in a lifetime spent in television , for the fact that a single programme can be simultaneously attacked from both ends of the political spectrum for bias in the opponents ' favour . |
| 29 | He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme . |
| 30 | 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 ] . |