Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It means I 'm the sort of town clerk for the garrison , ’ he said . |
| 32 | Geriatrics became a serious medical specialty for the first time . |
| 33 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |
| 34 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 35 | The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of the mentor for the young person . |
| 36 | She drew the pan of milk off the fire and carrying it over to the table , quickly poured it into a pint pot into which she had already spooned a generous measure of treacle . |
| 37 | The Government have made clear their opposition and abhorrence for the fatwa to which the hon. Gentleman referred , but he differs from the view of his colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench if he wishes to stop trade or perhaps impose an embargo on trade with Iran or , indeed , any other country . |
| 38 | It was designed in the Grecian style by Edward Taylor , a York architect who used red brick for the body of the building and stone for the dressings . |
| 39 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 40 | I would be on my bike for the rest of my life , stuck on the stopping train to nowhere . |
| 41 | ‘ Yeah , all right ! ’ commented Ealing 's prodigal singer/songwriter Jamiroqua , who celebrated signing a big-money , eight-album deal with Sony by spending the rest of the day testing the taxi bike for THE FACE . |
| 42 | Victory at the Donington event and other impressive results were enough for Huberts to secure his signature with a brave promise of a factory bike for the future . |
| 43 | Le Roux wanted to create an industrial miniconglomerate which would finance the development of a new Norton bike for the Nineties : the rotary-engined F1 , a sleek , stylish , jet-black , light and aerodynamic superbike . |
| 44 | Steve , who has won the Isle of Man race eight times and holds the outright lap record , will be arriving with his latest bike for the 1992 racing season . |
| 45 | Colourist Chris gave Jean an all-over permanent colour in Deep Velvet Brown mixed with Dark Blonde highlights for contrast through the front . |
| 46 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 47 | Again without apology to Jonathon Porritt , I would say we are defining animal welfare as the quality of environment as perceived by the animal and we are defining environment protection as the quality of environment as perceived by us . |
| 48 | That day the Brigade gave their first public display , and these events , with the rescue from a burning building as the highlight , were to continue into the 1930s . |
| 49 | It became an important building as the burial place for the kings of Sweden . |
| 50 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 51 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 52 | An air trooper of 2 flight Army Air Corps provides close protection for the Gazelle helicopters at a forward airfield |
| 53 | But , he maintains , 24-hour protection for the Ks was simply not possible . |
| 54 | It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons . |
| 55 | At the conclusion of the programme , the Minister of Conservation will reassess the regulations required to provide protection for the downunder dolphin . |
| 56 | How to stop protection for the environment becoming protectionism in trade |
| 57 | It is not clear that the rules in Common Law and Equity were quite the same on these subjects ; but , at any rate , Equity had a special protection for the party who had suffered . |
| 58 | The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’ |
| 59 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |
| 60 | Mr Yeltsin made clear he would not contemplate any reduction in his powers and that his government would stick to its monetarist path , albeit with greater emphasis on social protection for the hardest hit . |