Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Following the move of the Contracts Division London Showroom , from the Business Design Centre to premises shared with Sekers Fabrics in Cavendish Place , a complete refurbishment of the interior has been carried out .
2 Derek Bluston , of the solicitors Malkin Janners , says : ‘ To get involved in litigation you either have to be very rich or very poor .
3 The much celebrated correspondence in the matter of Arkell v Pressdram involved only two letters : the first , from the solicitors Goodman Derrick & Co , to the editor of " Private Eye " , ended with the familiar legal demand : " Mr Arkell 's first concern is that there should be a full retraction at the earliest possible date in " Private Eye " and he will also want his costs paid .
4 On behalf of the solicitors Mr. Sumption argued that the power to make orders under section 6(2) was extended to persons concerned in the contravention because money ordered to be repaid , or contracts or securities ordered to be delivered up , or guarantees ordered to be cancelled may be in the hands of third parties , such as agents , assignees or chargees .
5 The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns .
6 As Sunderland were already on their journey , the Giants director Jeff Jones , who is also the coach , could not call off the game and decided against moving the match .
7 She studied art formally at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London c .1910–14 and 1918–19 , but as a teenager learned much from her grandfather , George Howard , a self-taught painter who befriended the artists Edward Burne-Jones , William Morris [ qq.v. ] , and Giovanni Costa .
8 Some of the artists Edward Burra , Sheila Fell , Henri GaudierBrzeska , Ivon Hitchens , Tom McGuinness and Keith Vaughan are represented twice , but for the most part the individual works of others are grouped under a great variety of headings .
9 The selection of works for the exhibition was made by the artists John Ward and Glynn Williams ; Curator of the Royal paintings Christopher Lloyd , collector Judge Stephen Tumim , and the critics Marina Vaizey and Robin Simon .
10 Then came the Ranks Hovis McDougall story .
11 The Ranks Hovis McDougall Group is one of the UK 's international food manufacturers , boasting many well-known and successful brand names , such as Mr Kipling , Hovis , McDougalls , Robertsons , Sharwoods and Bisto .
12 They have signed the Canadians Mark Harding and Marc White .
13 Serious work on learning originated with I. P. Pavlov in Russia , and with the behaviourists J. B. Watson and B. F. Skinner in the United States .
14 One by one , the blooms Luke Hunter had sent her so unthinkingly were reduced to a green herbal mulch and flushed down the drain .
15 According to David Mason of the London art dealers MacConnal Mason , who acted for the musicals composer Andrew Lloyd Webber in the recent purchase of Canaletto 's ‘ Old Horse Guards , London ’ at Christie 's , the picture is the first work of art to be bought by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation .
16 He dried it , slid it into its sheath , and accepted the coins Bertha Cohen drew from her apron pocket .
17 The Oscars Anthony Holden ( Little , Brown , March £17.50 ) .
18 Indeed , an unusual number of great scientists wrote in terms which allowed them to be readily popularised — sometimes excessively so — Darwin , Pasteur , the physiologists Claude Bernard ( 1813–78 ) and Rudolf Virchow ( 1821–1902 ) and Helmholtz ( 1821–94 ) ( see p. 315 ) , not to mention physicists like William Thompson , Lord Kelvin .
19 At the hustings Dave Hill
20 South Africa : LIFE WITH THE LIONS Michael Owen-Smith
21 As soon as they saw a lonely person , they had to drag him off to the woods Jesus Christ !
22 In her obituary in The Times Evelyn Underhill claimed that Eva Gore-Booth would be remembered chiefly as a mystical poet , but it was W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] who unjustly commemorated her — dreaming of that ‘ vague Utopia ’ , her body and life wasted by politics .
23 The stunning view of Dumyat makes a splendid backdrop to the garden , reminding us of the times Sir Monty spent hillwalking on the many occasions he visited Stirling .
24 You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public .
25 The chances are that you belong to one of the groups Derek Dean has identified .
26 In the cases Romer L.J .
27 Compared with the hours Bishop Proudie seemed to have to toast his toes at his study fire , the pressure of their timetables is terrible .
28 A quick call to the personnel director Robert Dexter ought to bring advice and results .
29 A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials .
30 RULES FOR CHANGING THE RULES PATRICK BATESON
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