Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 an unpublished report , known as SHARPEN ( Scottish Health Authorities Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties ) , pointed out the deficiency of local authority provision for mentally ill people and noted local authorities ' particular responsibilities under the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 . |
| 2 | But it was plain afterwards that the Israelis had not moved one tiny step closer to accepting the United Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Temple Mount killings last week . |
| 3 | A receiving station operated by the European Space Agency near Rome acquired about two months worth of data from the thematic mapper before transmitting equipment broke down . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , while our association welcomes the six months stay of execution for the Redmire line ( Echo , Feb 19 ) may we urge all those concerned about this issue that there is no room for complacency . |
| 5 | In Somerset , Roger Leech has drawn attention to the patterns of parish boundaries and roads south of Ilchester on the Foss Way . |
| 6 | For Gertrude Jekyll the arts and crafts creed of unity of the arts was not just an artistic concept but fundamental to her special art and skills in home-making which she passed on to Lutyens , inspiring him to build not just houses but homes . |
| 7 | So the Southern lost its lines west of Salisbury to the Western , the Western gave up its lines in the West Midlands to the London Midland , the Eastern surrendered its access to Manchester , and the London Midland gave up to the Eastern and North Eastern its Yorkshire lines . |
| 8 | The tank has a 2″ layer of foam in the bottom and a bottom outlet feeds a triple waterfall . |
| 9 | An authoritarian stance is taken to be evidence of the younger staffs lack of experience of the harsh realities of industrial and agricultural life which has denied them the appreciation of the ‘ insider ’ . |
| 10 | In some Boards devolution of management to the districts was restricted ; other Boards were more adventurous . |
| 11 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 12 | A programme of experimental and theoretical studies is under way at BGS to quantify the rate and magnitude of the reaction of the highly alkaline pore fluids characteristic of cements with the repository rock . |
| 13 | He was giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee of MPs in the Commons on the role of the authority . |
| 14 | See I 'm I 'm only allowed to take fifty pounds worth of rand into the country so I 've got ta do it all in travellers cheques . |
| 15 | Profit before tax which includes nineteen point six million pounds worth of profit from the sale of the Group 's investment in Carpet Right was forty four point one compared to a loss of twelve million for the same period last year . |
| 16 | Two hundred pounds worth of equipment down the back stairs . |
| 17 | Police have seized hundreds of pounds worth of drugs at the spot where an illegal rave party was due to have been held . |
| 18 | Is that not a pertinent question in the context of the millions of pounds worth of drugs on the streets throughout the United Kingdom ? |
| 19 | MORE than 600 illegal nets have been confiscated this year from poachers who are stealing thousands of pounds worth of salmon from the River Foyle . |
| 20 | Twenty thousand pounds worth of sales in the bottom drawer now . |
| 21 | In a very matter-of-fact voice he apologised for the shut down , due to engine failure , adding laconically that he had left ten thousand pounds worth of tyres on the runway . |
| 22 | Recent research by the federation showed that in 1990–1 only £18,000 of relief was granted , compared to a rates income of £15bn from the business community . |
| 23 | It would be a welcome change , however , if the revenue were large enough for RWC to fund its own tournaments and to allow the ‘ minnows ’ of world rugby to stay at a decent hotel within 45 minutes drive of civilisation during the high-point of their rugby lives ( see pages 38 & 39 ) . |
| 24 | In 1932 US Navy Admiral Harry Yarnell was commanding a fleet of some 199 ships on manoeuvres west of Panama in the Pacific ; previously he had added his voice to the concern of Oahu 's vulnerability but his warnings went unheeded . |
| 25 | Er and as would have been noted in the in our report to this general assembly on page four hundred and nine , we say at the end of er the paragraph in the middle of the the page in which we are referring to ACTS and its commissions , in this connection it should be noted that the church 's approach to the Roman Catholic bishops conference of Scotland on the question of intercommunion is under discussion in that conference and in the ACTS commission on unity faith and order . |
| 26 | When I asked the woman in Lima in charge of the government 's tourist agency FOPTUR what image of Peru was being promoted to attract a hoped for 780 million dollars worth of tourists within the next couple of years , she told me : ‘ I could say we have everything here — the three regions , mountains , coast and jungle ; beaches and adventure . |
| 27 | For the past four years , Nottingham has led the field in police harassment of motorists over the Christmas period , and come bottom of the league in the proportion of compulsory breath tests which proved justified . |
| 28 | But in this financial services field of course in the main were you doing private |
| 29 | According to Andrew Lees , Campaigns Director of Friends of the Earth , the decline in clear rivers was potentially disastrous . |
| 30 | Andrew Lees , campaigns director of Friends of the Earth UK , warned : " The North has done little to signal , let alone address , the issue of over-consumption . |