Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People come from all over Darlington for some of the activities but in the Denes area the church is regarded as a genuine focal point for non-churchgoers as well as regular worshippers . |
| 2 | Our detailed knowledge of the site 's later history is largely dependent upon the excavations across the defences and at the west gate . |
| 3 | There 's also some new kind of rubberised surface by the swings and at the end of the slide . |
| 4 | Furthermore the court 's alternative conclusion that the profit arose in or derived from the places where these assets were licensed erroneously presupposes that the rights in question had a fixed situs outside Hong Kong whence profits accrued not to the sub-licensees but to the taxpayer . |
| 5 | The Model Contract Conditions set out fairly and succinctly the principle obligations of the solicitors and of the authority . |
| 6 | For the experiment , eight temporary space lights were installed in the Chamber and the strip lights under the galleries and above the Speaker 's Chair were upgraded . |
| 7 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 8 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 9 | Evidence for the Burgundians and for the Franks suggests that neither group can be neatly categorized as either arian or catholic . |
| 10 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 11 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 12 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 13 | But as a consequence of all that work , we 've actually gained an additional five hundred and seventy pounds grant from the church commissioners , from the Scouts and from the Cathedral Council for this new additional work . |
| 14 | Such statements , estimates and projections reflect various assumptions made by the Shareholders and by the management of the Company concerning anticipated results , which assumptions may or may not prove to be correct . |
| 15 | If the heir was a child , he was in wardship to the lord : the lord was his legal guardian and had control of the estates and of the person of the ward until he came of age . |
| 16 | There are three different crystallographic forms of chitin — a- , B- and y- chitin — which differ in the arrangement of the chains and in the presence of bound water ; a-chitin is the most stable and the only one found in arthropod cuticle . |
| 17 | On the further consideration of the action , Macnaghten J. held that , as the plaintiff , under the agreement , was to pay not to the creditors but to the credit of their solicitors there was a sufficient consideration . |
| 18 | Springing was provided only on the bolsters and above the axle boxes giving a comfortable ride but a tendency to roll . |
| 19 | It has been funded throughout its four years of activities on both sides of the Atlantic : primarily by the US National Endowment for the Humanities and by the EC as part of its framework for linguistic research and engineering , but also with grants from the Mellon Foundation and from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council . |
| 20 | In his opening speech , the chair Ruslan Khasbulatov [ for whose election see p. 38537 ] warned the deputies that after the break-up of the Soviet Union the Congress had no longer the excuse of central Union power to influence its deliberations ; the Congress now represented , he emphasised , the highest legislative body of a sovereign state . |
| 21 | Professor John Davies , of Strathclyde University , claims more young drug users are having their lives wrecked by the courts than by the drugs themselves . |
| 22 | In order not to jeopardise the CPO no tennis will be played on the courts until after the six week period … mid May . |
| 23 | In order not to jeopardise the CPO no tennis will be played on the courts until after the six week period = = mid May . |
| 24 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 25 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 26 | The Act also contains guidance for the courts as to the factors which they should take into account in deciding whether any of the statutory exceptions to the presumption in favour of bail apply in a particular case . |
| 27 | To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision . |
| 28 | A number of recently developed innovative schemes encourage early diversion of mentally disturbed people out of the courts and into the care of the mental health services before they reach prison . |
| 29 | [ The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ] . |
| 30 | ( The grass patch beyond the courts and to the old cooking centre is still owned by the Foulis Trust ) . |