Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , hoards and other important finds continually turn up in random fields or during building developments The possibilities for making early finds are therefore good , as is the potential for the future . |
| 2 | For Physics students the laboratory classes serve a double purpose . |
| 3 | Reid ( 1978 ) argues that for curriculum problems the process of deliberation is required : a process described empirically by Walker ( 1975 ) , and which we shall examine further in Chapter 8 . |
| 4 | During daylight hours the curtains could be arranged either drawn back to either side of the track , or covering the walls between the windows . |
| 5 | Although other vehicles are available — gesture , touch , dress , etc. , all sometimes speak as loudly as words — for action theorists the capacity to give meaning to the world through a shared language enables people to interact socially and to create a social order . |
| 6 | For example , where a residential property has been purchased for investment purposes the bank/organisation may wish to notify its interest to the insurer . |
| 7 | After mild weather depressed demand in 1988-89 for car batteries the principal source of lead consumption , prices rose steadily through 1989 to reach record levels of £745 a tonne in March 1990 . |
| 8 | for car drivers the danger to others is an important consideration and may need to take priority over the need for maintaining independence . |
| 9 | Not for Opposition Members the 14 per cent . |
| 10 | In addition if marginal costing were to be used for stock valuations the stocks would clearly be undervalued . |
| 11 | For practice purposes the book concludes with a selection of woven projects from simple stoles to highly patterned wall hangings and rugs , plus a garment in the form of a ‘ V inset ’ style sweater . |
| 12 | LEFT For hygiene reasons the family tub is not the best place to wash your pet . |
| 13 | In my view , for compensation purposes the position of an assignee in such a case is the same as discussed above regarding a statutory assignee . |
| 14 | In Schmidt v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs the plaintiffs were Scientology students who had been given a limited leave to enter the country . |
| 15 | 1.12.2 ( in any other case ) the usual quarter day immediately preceding the Certificate Date Landlords often insist that for management purposes the term of the lease should begin on a quarter day , particularly where the premises are part of a large development . |
| 16 | For dairy farmers the payment period was reduced from 45 days to 30 days . |
| 17 | As they became aware of cinema audiences the vast majority of these intellectuals tended not to see them in quite such a negative way as Chaplin . |
| 18 | Just in case , somebody escape that net of dread diseases The lucky ones . |
| 19 | By focusing on the tensions caused by the imposition in April 1984 of milk quotas the study will document an instance of ‘ agricultural exceptionalism ’ under stress . |
| 20 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 21 | Research shows that , while across the majority of industry sectors the average telecommunications content of any given systems integration project is approximately 57% , the proportion in financial sector deals is more likely to be about 71% . |
| 22 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 23 | Also that the higher the pointage of entry qualifications the more likely the student was to be successful . |
| 24 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 25 | Over twenty years after the introduction of village tribunals the Government Agent at Kurunagala discovered that presidents refused to accept any criminal plaints not endorsed by the village headman . |
| 26 | For a fuller treatment of a.c. bridges the reader should consult a specialist book such as Alternating Current Bridge Methods , Sixth Edition , by B. Hague and T. R. Foord , Pitman , London ( 1971 ) . |
| 27 | Giddens ( 1973 , p. 107 ) emphasises this idea with his concept of ‘ structuration ’ : ‘ The greater the degree of ‘ closure ’ of mobility chances the more this facilitates the formation of identifiable classes . |
| 28 | With the exception of winter weekends the Folk Park is open to visitors throughout the year . |
| 29 | For other sets of motor/drive parameters the characteristic is asymptotic to the T=0 axis ; the torque tends to zero at an infinite stepping rate . |
| 30 | The decision , regarded as inevitable due to the activities of Loop offshoots The Hair And Skin Trading Company and Main , puts paid to speculation that the band would reunite for a US tour . |