Example sentences of "the [n mass] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Metropol Gallery of Vienna is seeking a buyer for the fire engine , provided the graffiti artists the Whitney once championed do n't get to it first . |
| 2 | In Hereford and Worcester , the amount of land covered by roads offices and houses has more than doubled since the war.In Gloucestershire the figure is ninety-five per cent , with a similar impact on pasture-land . |
| 3 | Erm now potentially , if you totted up , and there 's also the data integrity the other reports , which is the sixty K overspend we talked about , now the question is do we spend that , do we spend that this year , what do we do ? |
| 4 | By the end of the data period the average of the absolute proportionate deviations was down to 0.6% for the Osaka 50 Kabusaki , and 0.5% for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 5 | The possession of salmon has also caused considerable acrimony between the two nations in times past , and the most infamous incident was the fish garth the English built across the River Esk , traditional boundary of England and Scotland , some time before 1474 . |
| 6 | It dwarfs the 1.4m tonnes the UN called for , on average , in each of the three years 1987–89 . |
| 7 | Mr Skinner said Mr Lilley should come to the House to answer questions over ‘ the £4,000 bill the taxpayer is having to foot for him flying from his holiday cottage in France to come back to Britain ’ . |
| 8 | b ) collect from Julia in the sales department the PAL master tapes for BUSINESS ASSIGNMENTS . |
| 9 | After dismounting the media item the Offline Operator should reply by pressing RETURN with the cursor positioned in the appropriate window . |
| 10 | It 's relevant because at a time when I lived through the means test the one that , the real one , er then that would have been a very serious point because you could switch and turn and twist the means test in such a way that people would be continually at a disadvantage and the nearest I can think of what the effect of that was , living in a very working town , a very industrial working town and it was nothing like as bad as the one in London more recently , was the homelessness of cardboard boxes cities in London . |
| 11 | Academician Druzhinin held that the object of the framers of the statutes was " to retain in the hands of the gentry estate the maximum quantity of land and to facilitate the gentry 's transition to more profitable farming based on free labour by providing them with the essential capital and reserves of the necessary manpower " . |
| 12 | If the shares fell below the 600p price the offer would be declared a ‘ flop ’ even though all the money is safely secured due to ‘ underwriting ’ by the big institutional investors . |
| 13 | Darlington MP Mr Fallon is under increasing pressure in the face of the £4m savings the county council says it is being forced to make to comply with government spending targets and avoid charge capping . |
| 14 | The collection is strong in ethnographic , social and political publications relating to the ll people the Soviet North . |
| 15 | For the series connection the phase current is low and the voltage high compared to the parallel connection , but there is no difference in the power supplied to the phase . |