Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the third quarter of the fourth century the cavalry commanders of the ‘ solo horsemen ’ and ‘ four horsemen ’ form an officer class with political privileges ( SEG ix.1 ) . |
| 2 | Other detachments headed south from northern , rebel-held cities in an advance on Madrid , only to find themselves humiliatingly held by urban militia groups in the Guadarrama mountains north of the city . |
| 3 | Grants are available for a wide range of capital investments and the rates do not appear to vary with the type of investment but with the nature of the production system ( average rates of 22.4% for milk cows , 28.3% for beef cows and 31.2% for sheep units in the Auvergne ) and the LFA zone ( 34.0% in the ‘ montagne ’ and ‘ piedmont ’ ; 28.5% in the ‘ hors montagne ’ and 21. 1 % outside the LFA ) . |
| 4 | An alternative explanation might see these fortified sites being used as bases for the storage of spare equipment and horses plus food and fodder for mobile cavalry units of the late Roman field army in Britain . |
| 5 | They are all criminals , those who live in the barracks huts of the camps , and those who will join them when the train reaches the platforms of Barashevo . |
| 6 | Burton 's History of Leicestershire ( 1622 ) noted that Foston had some of the finest sheep pastures in the county and that the village community consisted only of the squire , the parson and three or four labouring families . |
| 7 | He began feeding 9mm shells into the magazine . |
| 8 | Diebold Inc has reported first quarter net profits of $8.6m against losses of $11.6m last time , after $17.9m losses from the cumulative effect of an accounting change last time , on sales up 10.6% to $134.5m . |
| 9 | Hypermedia systems are very complex : events have to be controlled over long periods , as in the design , control , maintenance and integrity of linear and branching trails used for navigation ; text and graphical information comprises complex data objects with the need for aggregation and inheritance abstractions ; and interfaces must employ multi-windowing techniques and be natural according to psychological models . |
| 10 | ‘ Single 50p coins and £1 coins in the collection plate are not going to get us anywhere near what we need for the life of today 's Church . ’ |
| 11 | Bull also has some multi-media projects on the boil in conjunction with Philips , through the Esprit MultiWorks project , and demonstrated an unannounced HyperPath authoring environment for multi-media applications , currently running on Intel-based SCO Unix systems , but also available for Windows , and soon for the IBM RS/6000 . |
| 12 | Data loggers within the Garden can be used to record information for incorporation into central databases . |
| 13 | In the southern hemisphere , the impact of aircraft operations on the total ozone column amount is anticipated to be much smaller than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 14 | Another way in which reductions in stratospheric ozone levels may be partly offset has been suggested in Derwent ( 1982 ) , who believes that aircraft operations in the upper troposphere have caused an increase in ozone production . |
| 15 | The Alpine 4000m peaks by the classic routes |
| 16 | E-VALUES are the data values for the zones to be mapped . |
| 17 | Record the median of three consecutive data values alongside the middle value ; with a little practice , this can be done quickly and with very little effort . |
| 18 | If you paid additional premium to delete the standard £15 excesses under the Buildings Section of the Policy you will find this charge is no longer made . |
| 19 | Overall , the Directive is designed to raise the level of protection available to data subjects in the Member States . |
| 20 | We alighted from the aircraft steps onto the only paved surface on the island . |
| 21 | As a result , there is a range of driving frequencies ( for quantitative details see Refs. [ 273 , 274 , 390 ] ) in which the pendulum bob orbits within the spherical surface , rather than just oscillating on an arc of the surface . |
| 22 | It represents the integrated user views of the data and the data relationships in the area chosen . |
| 23 | Trading profit in the tobacco division was 16% ahead at a record £805m thanks to the international spread of the business . |
| 24 | The later shelly sands of the northern Neogene ( such as the English " crags " and the French faluns ) and the echinoid.bearing limestones of the Mediterranean may represent a return to plate stability . |
| 25 | From about 25 in the 1940s , the number of aircraft manufacturers in the non-communist world dwindled relentlessly until , by the mid-1980s , there remained only five companies capable of building a jet airliner — and the future for some of those looked dicey . |
| 26 | In any one day , we can usually expect around 200 aircraft movements at the airport . |
| 27 | Air-traffic control at Aldergrove and the privately-owned City Airport at Belfast harbour is handled by the Civil Aviation Authority , which directed 125,000 aircraft movements around the clock in 1991 . |
| 28 | In 1976 he became a member of the organising committee charged with the responsibility of welding a disparate group of UK aircraft companies into the nationalised British Aerospace group . |
| 29 | The prospect of amalgamation led to a bitter battle amongst the aircraft contractors over the TSR 2 , in which only the fittest and most ruthless firms survived . |
| 30 | The K lines from this circuit are linked to the input data lines on the K nodes . |