Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response of cattle owners was to increase the total numbers in their herd , rather than to maintain a smaller herd with lower mortality levels . |
| 2 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 3 | The techniques are not only common to all Windows operation , but also apply to the majority of Windows applications . |
| 4 | In the majority of cases reporters knew the system to be working well , said Mr Harris . |
| 5 | Indeed , in the majority of cases costs are agreed between the parties . |
| 6 | Clearly this model has considerable relevance in an NHS context , where in the majority of cases purchasers and providers are locked into each other for a large part of their business ; the information base on demand , cost and quality is poor and transaction costs are potentially high . |
| 7 | However , as the WPGET ventures into a 13th season , it is pleasing to reflect that it has been lucky not just for some , but for the majority of women golfers , both amateur and professional . |
| 8 | Yet the majority of women repealers clearly identified , if not with feminism , then with a body of ideas and aspirations variously known as the woman question , the emancipation of women , the rights of women and so on . |
| 9 | Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts . |
| 10 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 11 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 12 | Information collected on the professional experience of front-line practitioners revealed that the majority of police officers w&re more experienced than their social work counterparts . |
| 13 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 14 | They erm , the Thames investment in Astra is er , another reason for , in fact the principal reason for the increase in associates and investments , working capital is a simple , a seasonal outflow which has been , again by the stronger dollar and the reduction in shareholders funds compared with the thirty first of December er , reflects the eighty six million pound good will write off on Thames . |
| 15 | Even today , we are told that it would cost the Inland Revenue about £250 million , because of the reduction in customs barriers . |
| 16 | First , will the Minister give an assurance tonight that his Department will start to collect statistics on the attachment of earnings orders and how many have been collected or returned ? |
| 17 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 18 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 19 | As our society becomes more multicultural it is more essential for teachers to recognise the variety of skills children bring with them . |
| 20 | In the vast majority of cases they will of course on the facts be a closed link between the nature of the trade effective between members of states and the competition that is restricted by the contested clause , this is because given that the restriction flows out in the agreement the later sets the context for former , accordingly as a simply matter of fact , restrictions of competition operating relating to the same market in which trade is affected between member of states , a restriction must be appraised in the context of the market , if the parties to the agreement or the high percent market share of the market , then a relatively minor restriction assumes greatest significance , on , firstly , if the parties hold a small share of the market then what appears obstensively be a serious restriction may turn out upon an assessment of facts to be minor or relatively insignificant , contrary to the submission of the plaintiff , the restriction of competition can be determined without a assessment of market , the court of first instance have recently held that the necessement of the market has necessary pre pre-conditioned of any judgement concerning the allegedly and competitive behaviour and your Lordship was taken to that paragraph page ninety two , just siting recently the and the present case the restrictions pleaded that paragraphs forty clements and the two twenty mason were for broadly to restrict the effects upon the insurance market , however the defendants have gone one step further and also identified other markets and sub markets in which the restrictions take immediate impact , this is logical for example in relation to the standard form agency agreement the restrictions have the most direct impact from the sub market to the provision of agencies services to names , competition is effected in this market since complete harmonization of secondary terms and trades are merely the criteria available to names when choosing an agent , however , the standard form contract also effects the wine and insurance market , the fact that the agent has unvetted powers to write any insurance which he sees fit affects the categories of insurance written within this is of course is the matter about which defendant makes complaint . |
| 21 | Too many organizations are involved to list them all , but nationally organized groups such as Red Cross and WRVS are prominent , and were frequently pioneers in the provision of meals services . |
| 22 | The judicial decision ended a monopoly and opened up competition not only in the provision of telecommunications services but also new developments in information technologies . |
| 23 | Enhance safety in the provision of sports grounds . |
| 24 | FELs offer new opportunities for investigating a very wide range of phenomena , especially in the far infrared where the coverage by others lasers is limited . |
| 25 | Using transactions data for the MMI for 1986 , Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) found that the change in futures prices over the last five minutes had some predictive power for the change in the index over the next five minutes . |
| 26 | Financially it was somewhat shaky , but the will of Eva Maria Marcus created a fund for the support of women artists in need . |
| 27 | The election of more working-class councillors after the Local Government Act of 1894 , often with the support of trades councils and other organizations , acted as a further stimulus in some districts . |
| 28 | Leona Benten , 29 , acting with the support of abortion-rights activists , had attempted to enter the USA with a number of the pills on July 1 . |
| 29 | We will introduce a 110-day limit on the length of time for which a prisoner may be held before trial , repeal the broadcasting ban , and provide for the videotaping of police interviews with terrorist suspects . |
| 30 | Clearly the diversity of their experiences and needs and the significance of age and gender in defining the trajectory of drugs careers must be matched by flexible counselling and treatment . |