Example sentences of "[noun] [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black House , as the Chelsea headquarters in the King 's Road became known , had uniformed sentries at its doors , for all the world as if the private army was ready for the great coup . |
| 2 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 3 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 4 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 5 | But UN officials in Bahrain , the regional field headquarters for the UN Special Commission ( UNSCOM ) entrusted with destroying Iraq 's weapons of mass destruction , said that team was now likely to stay at least until tomorrow . |
| 6 | The attack in the south was focused in the main on Dezful , where Iran had a major air base , and on Ahwaz , the principal town of Iran 's southwestern province of Khuzestan and site of the field headquarters of the country 's inland oil-production operations , with an important oilfield on the spot and the junction of the crude oil pipeline system leading northwards to domestic refining centres . |
| 7 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 8 | The fact that Hitler was out of Germany , at the Führer Headquarters in the east , and engaged in the conduct of the war against the Bolshevik arch-enemy — a war which he had long prophesied as inevitable in order to defend Christian Europe — evidently made it unthinkable for many that he could have anything to do with the ‘ godless Bolshevism ’ of the brownshirts at home . |
| 9 | Croatian separatist forces won back a degree of control by instigating a blockade of JNA barracks throughout the republic of Croatia , forcing the occupants to surrender with their tanks and equipment . |
| 10 | Inspector Sue Best has exchanged her navy blue uniform for a smart city suit , and left Stoke Newington police station for the prestigious West End headquarters of the Trafalgar House Group . |
| 11 | In the early hours of March 1 a group of four soldiers seized weapons and ammunition from the Ministry of Defence headquarters in the fort of Tiuna in the capital . |
| 12 | HSC , a joint venture between DSM of the Netherlands and Tosoh of Japan , plans to spend $60m ( £33m ) to quadruple its present aspartame capacity to 2000 t pa by the end of 1993 in an attempt to capture a larger percentage of the fast growing aspartame market . |
| 13 | Gravity data are expressed relative to a base 5km from the summit which has proved to be gravitationally invariant with respect to other stations further down the volcano flanks and off the volcano . |
| 14 | Birthplace data from the 1841 census onwards show that only 40 per cent of those aged over 20 ( the only people for whom data are available ) had been born in the town they lived in . |
| 15 | In the quarter ending June 1989 , 37.5% of night visits in Berkshire and 45.6% nationally were done by deputies ; these proportions dropped to 14.8% in Berkshire in the year ending September 1992 and 28.1% nationally in the year ending March 1991 ( calculated from payment data as the health service indicators no longer record the percentage of visits done by deputies ) . |
| 16 | There is a research team at the European University Institute who are gathering enterprise level data on the basis of both balance sheets and questionnaires put to workers and managers . |
| 17 | The term ‘ Tyneside Conurbation ’ has been employed in relation to census data since the inter-war years but this contained four county boroughs and significant parts of the counties of Durham and Northumberland . |
| 18 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 19 | For instance , forecasts for the total sales of bread , cakes and other bakery products in the UK can be calculated for any particular segment on the basis of trade and census data on the number of people in different socioeconomic classes ( see later chapters ) , their per capita consumption of bakery products , and trends in the consumption pattern as between standard lines , such as wrapped white bread , and value added lines such as wholemeal bread , cream cakes , crispbread etc . |
| 20 | This is a theory favoured by , among others , Richard Adams of the University of Texas who was involved with analysing the radar data from the Maya lowlands . |
| 21 | USAFM hope also to take on a series of former Desert Storm aircraft in the wake of recent retirements . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is often worth transferring PC data into the Macintosh simply to gain access to these facilities . |
| 23 | Install one of these and you can send computer data over the line without a modem ; voice traffic will have to be converted to digital form by special phone or exchange equipment . |
| 24 | 29 A monkey tries to reach a branch 5½m above the ground by standing on the shoulders of an elephant 4 ¼m high . |
| 25 | Literature data on the thermodynamics of the coil-helix transition for the single stranded poly ( C ) [ 8,9 ] and poly ( A ) [ 10-12 ] RNA sequences , poly ( dA ) DNA [ 12 ] and data on mixed-sequence DNA oligomers [ 13 ] are collated in Table 1 . |
| 26 | Some of the areas which will be tackled include the analysis of spatial data , the analysis of time series data the analysis of discrete response data including the use of linear models and a study of measurement error . |
| 27 | The most detailed miniature building was the pyramid headquarters of the Tyrell Corporation , where the manufacture of the replicants as well as the administration of the business and the research takes place This had to be built in two sizes — many models in this and other films have to be built in several sizes , often three or four , and sometimes up to whole or partial full-size , for various kinds of shot or effect . |
| 28 | Roquelaure arranged for him to visit DGSE headquarters on the boulevard Berthier ring road . |
| 29 | Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers . |
| 30 | At one time it was the Swanage headquarters of the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters . |