Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] of [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 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 .
10 These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid .
11 Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range .
12 Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range .
13 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 .
14 It was important to sketch in some of the history of developments in social policy .
15 ‘ I think the director and some of the cast of Fly-Buttons should be out front tonight . ’
16 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 .
17 You may do this with the juice of plums , gooseberries , apricots , figs , or any juicy fruit . "
18 It has been possible to do this with the help of donations from Crisis — the national charity for single homeless people ; the Law Society ; the London Boroughs Grants C Committee and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux .
19 We were already seeing the effects of this in the softening of attitudes in bank advertisements .
20 But who is this in the case of nitrates : is it the farmers , the consumers who buy high nitrate-produced food , or the fertiliser manufacturers ?
21 The predictable result would have been an intensification of agriculture and we may be witnessing this in the drift of settlements ending on more fertile and productive soils and the changes in cereal crops being cultivated .
22 There 's certainly a lot of passion about this in the house of lords .
23 They do this in the form of infidelities but they have very different consequences and conclusions , partly due to the differences in their characters and also their circumstances .
24 Nevertheless , is it too far fetched to include this in the collection of stories of guardsmen , telephone engineers and building site workers who went to Ken 's home ?
25 Turnout was up by 400,000 ( i.e. a drop by half in the level of abstentions ) compared with the elections of 1989 [ for which see p. 37487 ] .
26 As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known .
27 So what this example shows is that a sentence which seems to contain one assertion can turn out to contain many different assertions , some in the form of presuppositions .
28 She did not tell Sunil this until the exchange of contracts .
29 Information disclosed by one party to another in the course of negotiations will be subject to the obligation of confidence where information relates to the subject matter of the negotiations and has the necessary quality of confidence .
30 Mutation will make it unlikely that the cells within a plant are genetically identical , so they wo n't collaborate wholeheartedly with one another in the manufacture of organs and new plants .
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