Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR has joined forces with 15 local authorities to carry out improvements to the trackside view on key routes . |
| 2 | The threat comes from plans to contract out services to the private sector . |
| 3 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 4 | LOCAL AUTHORITIES drawing up plans for the community care reforms will have to consult with the private and voluntary sector , the new Department of Health guidelines say . |
| 5 | Well last Friday a man with a white wig , Lord Justice McCowan used five even more devastating words to sum up life in The Sun : ‘ Sensational , inaccurate and misleading coverage . ’ |
| 6 | After the elections next spring , Cambodia 's new government should take immediate steps to rein in development in the Angkor zone , and thereby preserve one of the landmarks of Eastern Medieval history . |
| 7 | Like Camdessus , Conable urged creditor nations to write off debt to the poorest nations [ see also p. 37731 for LDC conference in Paris ] and claimed that a 10 per cent cut in military spending by members of NATO would free enough resources to double development assistance . |
| 8 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 9 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 10 | Pores along the hairs filter out molecules of the right size and these are analysed . |
| 11 | For example , if there were a sudden selling of sterling ( due , say , to bad trade figures and a resulting fear that the pound would depreciate ) , the Bank of England could help to prevent the pound from falling by using reserves to buy up pounds on the foreign exchange market . |
| 12 | After 1914 she concentrated on teaching , but she found time to compile an attitude survey , the Women 's Industrial Council report on Domestic Service ( 1916 ) , and her pamphlet on Village Survey-Making ( 1929 ) encouraged country schools to hunt out information about the past and present of their localities . |
| 13 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 14 | From within this perspective bishops and clergy lay down rules for the laity to follow in any given situation and the teaching of the church is seen as absolutely clear and devoid of problematic . |
| 15 | This meant that the District Officers ' opposition to the proposals of wildlife conservationists who wanted Masai land was just as uncompromising as their opposition to settlers ; and , then as now , the appearance of indifference to the interests of picturesque and harmless animals brought down odium on the heads of those presumed guilty of it . |
| 16 | Flares lit up parts of the sprawling capital as tracer bullets criss-crossed the night sky . |
| 17 | This square is very large and was originally faced with 70 offices carrying on trade with the whole ancient world . |
| 18 | These may be a mere sale agreement or may include other ancillary agreements such as service contracts , licensing agreements , supply agreements etc. ( 2 ) Consider whether there are two parties carrying on business in the United Kingdom in the supply or production of goods or in the supply of services . |
| 19 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 20 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 21 | France , the United Kingdom and the USA issued a joint statement on Nov. 27 warning that international sanctions would be made " even more effective " unless Libya complied with UN Security Council demands to hand over suspects in the UTA and Lockerbie cases [ see p. 38839 ] . |
| 22 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 23 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |
| 24 | With the consent of the donor , the Commission applied the fund instead to encouraging secondary schools in the crofting areas to carry out schemes for the improvement of the village environment |
| 25 | And , according to Mrs Aitken , Jake had no objections , so arrangements were made for Carol 's parents to pick up Kirsty on the appointed day . |
| 26 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 27 | Some sixty-five million years ago this seemingly endless sedate marine activity was abruptly halted when earth movements lifted up part of the sea-bed to form the continental land mass . |
| 28 | He leant over to where keys hung on hooks in the wall and took a huge , rusting one down . |
| 29 | One local says helicopters brought in reinforcements to the isolated rural area an hour before the shooting began . |
| 30 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |