Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
| 2 | The airframe is immaculate , with a wonderful paint job kept pristine with the help of a large bag of polishing cloths by the hangar wall . |
| 3 | It is I would suggest similarly evident that P P G seven expects most new development in rural areas to be directed to rural villages and small country towns and that it should be sensitively related to existing settlement patterns under the historic wildlife and landscape resources of the area . |
| 4 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 5 | Porous sandstones near the top of the Sherwood Sandstone occur beneath thick impervious halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone . |
| 6 | definitely trying to avoid my eyes now there 's a few eyes round here that look more like route maps of the M twenty five ! |
| 7 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |
| 8 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 9 | Other printing projects for the church already underway include Sunday school materials and a new hymn book . |
| 10 | The Airborne Self-Protection Jammer was described by the world 's top electronics experts in the 1988-89 edition of Jane 's Avionics as possibly the ‘ most significant US electronic warfare system in the current decade . ’ |
| 11 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 12 | On Dec. 12 an aircraft carrying two FMLN commanders to the peace negotiations was forced to land in Guatemala following an explosion on board , which occurred after a stopover in Honduras . |
| 13 | 16.3 The supply of money Definitions of the money supply in the UK |
| 14 | Union affiliations to the Labour Party had been confined to those " contracting in " under the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 , and the total of affiliated unionists stood at two million throughout the 1930s . |
| 15 | Thereafter , the baby is vulnerable to such infections and this is borne in mind when organising immunisation programmes for the child . |
| 16 | And there was n't the defence the water defences , tide defences on the west shore then that there is now you know . |
| 17 | Concentrating on promoting funding for its health care and nutrition projects around the world , UNICEF is asking the public to support it by sharing a meal with someone at work or at home and setting aside a donation which would then go to fund its work . |
| 18 | The European Space Agency and the Canadian Government are both planning to launch radar satellites in the early to mid-1990s . |
| 19 | However , the field patterns over the land area in the upper left of the image are blurred by the smoothing operation . |
| 20 | The difference in motility indices for the total period and the postprandial period did not reach statistical significance . |
| 21 | Another function of the Solution , is the ability to display dive profiles for the previous eight hours diving and for dive simulation . |
| 22 | This is almost as much fun as going diving and is the ability to interface the Solution with a desk top computer and record , organise and recall all normal logbook information and also any dive profiles from the Solution 's internal memory . |
| 23 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 24 | Having , say , opted for different income groups as the unit of analysis , a calculation along the following lines can be performed for each group : |
| 25 | Housing quality is examined usually by area rather than by social group and there is little information on different income groups in the countryside and their needs and demands for housing . |
| 26 | If services are reduced in scope and operate on a more selective basis — that is , serve only certain categories and income groups within the population — then public expenditure could be reduced . |
| 27 | This grew naturally from the edge and surface description modellers by the addition of procedures for ensuring that the object is fully defined by surfaces , and by giving these surfaces an " inner " and " outer " side . |
| 28 | If the lowering of serum cholesterol values was the result of tumour activity , obvious differences in serum cholesterol values as the tumours progressed from stage A to stage D , or as they become more de-differentiated would have been expected . |
| 29 | Thirty nine men ( 58.2% ) and 23 women ( 48.9% ) with colorectal carcinoma had total cholesterol values below the 5th centile of the normal reference range . |
| 30 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |