Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials . |
| 2 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 3 | Was that as the result of comments ? |
| 4 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that for the majority of economists , the use of these concepts of surplus is a legitimate way of analysing the benefits ( and losses ) that arise under differing competitive conditions . |
| 5 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 6 | The term ‘ precept ’ means a demand by one body upon another for the cost of services administered by the body making the demand in the area of the body required to meet the demand . |
| 7 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 8 | Horses can learn some of the vocabulary of others . |
| 9 | Ollier ( 1981 ) provides an introduction to several topics discussed in this chapter , and my own brief reviews in Progress in Physical Geography ( Summerfield , 1986 , 1988 , 1989 ) try to relate some of the work by geophysicists to problems of landscape development . |
| 10 | The ladies did a marvellous job of feeding the group with their Bar-B-Que - a big thank you ladies - and Russell Mulford was on hand to record some of the work in pictures . |
| 11 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 12 | These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid . |
| 13 | Reviews of some of the literature on tests of the rational expectations hypothesis using direct survey data can be found in chapter 1 of Sheffrin ( 1983 ) , chapter 3 of Hudson ( 1982 ) and part III of Pesaran ( 1987 ) . |
| 14 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 15 | Governments begin to slough off some of the wealth in taxes to ameliorate the conditions of the poor and provide public amenities for their citizens . |
| 16 | To a degree some of the rise in prices resulted from market makers scrambling to acquire shares to meet investor demands but the Conservative victory has restored confidence in the City , something which has definitely been missing over the last few weeks . |
| 17 | From some of the evidence in Chapters 4.2 , 6.1 , and 7.2 to 7.6 , we may agree with them . |
| 18 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 19 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 20 | It is thus clear that contestable market features help to explain some of the behaviour of firms in the eurobond market , i.e. that it is highly competitive , especially within the individual currency sectors , despite the market structure . |
| 21 | Some of the difficulty with words is probably due to pupils ' problems with the concepts involved and to questions about them being out of context . |
| 22 | It was important to sketch in some of the history of developments in social policy . |
| 23 | ‘ I think the director and some of the cast of Fly-Buttons should be out front tonight . ’ |
| 24 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 25 | These are perhaps best illustrated by the workmen who , for example , seem to be incapable of doing anything without 20-minute tea breaks , management which seems uninterested in providing proper supervision , or boards which seem more interested in finding ways of jacking up their remuneration package irrespective of performance , or complaining to Government about interest rates , rather than wondering why they are not making some of the flood of goods which our continental competitors find it profitable to sell to the UK . |
| 26 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 27 | Michael Mills directed some of the filming through binoculars from a yacht out at sea . |
| 28 | Assistance from the community nursing service , social workers and day or respite facilities can relieve some of the pressure on carers but do not provide any long term solution to the attendant social and emotional deprivation of people living restricted and sometimes insular existences . |
| 29 | The elderly pushed one another along the prom in wheelchairs . |
| 30 | You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . " |