Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly true that much of the criticism of Leonard Arthur and doctors who believe as he did , was made ‘ in ignorance and misunderstanding of how the science and art of paediatrics is practised ’ as the defence counsel in the case claimed . |
| 2 | In conclusion he quoted directly from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia trial in 1964 [ see pp. 20245-46 ] : " I have fought against white domination , and I have fought against black domination . |
| 3 | Albert Mansur , the Defence Minister in the Hoss Cabinet , stated that the objective of the blockade was to use " peaceful and economic methods … to end the rebellion and reunify the military establishment " . |
| 4 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
| 5 | The fact that Cheney felt able to cancel the A-12 was indicative of the altering priorities of the Defence Department in the post-cold war era . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend will no doubt be aware of the importance of British Aerospace as a major employer in the defence industry in the north-west . |
| 7 | The response rate in the 1990 census was 95.3% for establishments and 95.6% for residents ( enumeration of establishments was complete in 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the daytime work in the garden in the late months of the year , the pleasant chore of browsing through catalogues and choosing seeds for next year 's display is much enjoyed . |
| 9 | In June 1985 Habitat Mothercare , in conjunction with a major French insurance company , acquired the majority shareholding in the French retailing company , FNAC . |
| 10 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 11 | By convention , the monarch sends for the leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 12 | The Prime Minister is leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 13 | Moreover , if the centre parties succeed in breaking through into parliament in large numbers then the prospect of coalition government would be increased and this would give the Crown a role in the making of governments since it would no longer be a simple and automatic matter of sending for the leader of the majority party in the Commons . |
| 14 | The post of prime minister was to be held by a member of the majority party in the assembly . |
| 15 | Richard Gephardt , the majority leader in the House of Representatives , warned him that if he introduced health-care reform on the coat-tails of his budget , it would be seen as a tax issue rather than a health issue . |
| 16 | Graham Mitchell , chairman of the Preservation Society which is the majority shareholder in the Railway Company , was delighted . |
| 17 | And the government of Abu Dhabi , the majority shareholder in the bank , may soon bring charges against 13 people , including the former chief executive . |
| 18 | This at least often seems to be the majority view in the indigenous culture of our society . |
| 19 | I think they 're unfair questions to respond to erm if you look at the potential calls on the contingency budget in the forthcoming year they 're been outlined by the officers . |
| 20 | Forbes proposed that no life could be found below a depth of 300 fathoms ( about 600 metres ) , a view not conclusively disproved until the Challenger expedition in the 1870s . |
| 21 | Further afield , the Indian National Congress was already beginning to grope towards a national identity , as was the Sarekat Islam in the great Dutch empire of the East Indies . |
| 22 | 41 ( Right ) Jewellery used for portraiture : ( a ) Caesar appears on a gilded emblem set in an iron ring , worn by a member of the Caesarian faction in the civil wars following the Dictator 's murder in 44 BC ( above left ) . |
| 23 | STIRLING 's John Chalmers , the 26-year-old Scottish Open champion , won the Epee title in the Donar International in Groningen , the Netherlands , overcoming strong opposition from an entry of 90 world-class fencers . |
| 24 | Bunyan replied that he could find no justification for the Prayer Book in the Scriptures and that its use was an impediment to man in making known his condition to God . |
| 25 | ) Excluding Gibson and Fender , which guitar company do you feel has had the most impact on the guitar industry in the last decade , and why ? |
| 26 | The display of the fur coat in the window . |
| 27 | An extreme form of the first is the fur trapper in the Russian and Canadian Arctic who lays a line of traps across country which he visits once a fortnight collecting the victims who have died a slow and agonising death with one or two legs caught in a gin trap . |
| 28 | We should therefore see shields on their own as aniconic representations of the deity ; the shield motif in the frescoes at Knossos is a religious , not a military , symbol . |
| 29 | For example , the widespread use of DDT in the 1960s was suspected of affecting the calcium metabolism in the oviducts of birds of prey ( raptors ) . |
| 30 | The dihydropyridine receptor in the surface membrane senses a change in voltage ( V ) and undergoes a conformational change which is transmitted through the bulbous head of the RYR to open the calcium channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum . |