Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure .
2 Management of the Pearl is led by Eionion Holland , the executive chairman , and Nigel Proddow , the chief general manager , who have 36 years of experience each with the Pearl .
3 He also bequeathed ten shillings each to the governors of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , in whose neighbouring church of St Bartholomew the Less he was buried 25 August 1670 .
4 By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster .
5 Actually , I believe that the marriage rule applies only to women , which says something for what marriage is supposed to do for them , but on that sunny Tuesday afternoon neither of the disqualifying conditions applied to me .
6 In 1950 the U.K. 's output per capita was about 50% that of the U.S. by 1900 it was about 75% .
7 Yet of course each of the schools in which the assistants work has pupils of many different ethnic origins , and in practice no single head has expressed any other intention than that assistants should work with families from all parts of the local community .
8 But it did mean that in order to understand a particular way of thinking — for instance that of the theist — it was necessary to pay careful attention to the way in which theists actually spoke .
9 It also runs along an old railway trackbed , in this instance that of the East Norfolk Railway .
10 There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one .
11 Erm the idea then is to , to swap your project quality plans around the groups and then for each , the leader of each group to critique those plans , just briefly , a few minutes er and present that to the erm t to the group .
12 At the wider level each of the units has to be sequenced to achieve a balance through the entire key stage .
13 You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures .
14 Such newspapers were to sell over 3 million copies each during the great press battles of the 1920s and 1930s : sales of such magnitude that they easily dwarfed the circulation of the dailies of the late 19th century .
15 During the evening they were presented with their gold watches and a cheque each from the company by the then general manager , Martin Cooke .
16 The dispositive contents of the will include : ( i ) pecuniary legacies of £1,000 each to the two executors , and of £2,000 to a Mr. Clarke , the deceased 's stockbroker ; ( ii ) provision for 150B , High Street and its contents to be retained to provide a residence during their respective lifetimes of two ladies , Mrs. Donelly and Mrs. Willett ; ( iii ) a settled legacy of £10,000 to provide for the maintenance of 150B , High Street during the residence there of the two ladies ; ( iv ) a settled legacy of £2,000 for a specified animal charity ; and ( v ) a gift of residue in equal shares to two specified charities .
17 The two accountants fined £1,000 each by the Institute 's Disciplinary Committee over conflicts of interest in the administration of Polly Peck International , will not appeal against the ruling .
18 Intent on delivering the message that the PowerPC chip is a mass market contender , Motorola Inc this week will hang price tags of $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 units .
19 Intent on delivering the message that the PowerPC chip is a mass market contender , Motorola Inc today plans to hang price tags of $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in 20,000-up quantities .
20 Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) .
21 Regroup your substitution items into groups each with the same tone patters , and try each group again in the same frame to see if the items do in fact have the same tone pattern ( see right-hand column ) .
22 There can be no more thorough scrutiny than that of the National Audit Office , save of course that of the Public Accounts Committee , of which my hon. Friend is a distinguished member .
23 So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually .
24 An indication of the enthusiasm ‘ WONDERS ’ generates is the fact that more than 1,700 volunteers devoted fifty hours each to the 1991 show .
25 During the 1980s the average annual number of bank mergers , 300-odd , was double the figure for the 1970s and three times that for the 1960s .
26 As can be seen from table 6.5 , the divorce-rate for unskilled husbands is more than four times that for professionals and for the unemployed , almost five times that for the professionals .
27 It was nearly twice that of our present Gregorian solar calendar and almost forty times that of the Julian calendar of contemporary Europe .
28 A joint venture between Brazil and Paraguay it began transmission late in 1984 and has the capacity to produce 12,600 MW with a flow of water through the 18 turbines which is 150 times that of the River Thames .
29 Could a rotor 's circumferential velocity be maintained in gales at the ideal ratio : 3.5 times that of the wind ?
30 From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena .
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