Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's plenty in store for the winter months in Harry Dodson 's century-old fruit house . |
| 2 | Kodak has announced a new ‘ Ektachrome ’ 400X Professional Film which combines a warm colour balance , ideal for cool scenes and white backgrounds , with high speed action shots just in time for the Winter Olympics in Albertville . |
| 3 | Kodak has announced a new ‘ Ektachrome ’ 400X Professional Film which combines a warm colour balance , ideal for cool scenes and white backgrounds , with high speed action shots — just in time for the Winter Olympics in Albertville . |
| 4 | A meticulously restored 10th century farmhouse situated near Sevenoaks is the nerve centre for the broadcasting exploits of Kent 's favourite gardening expert , Harry Smith . |
| 5 | While recognising the communication task of all European churches , the working group called for special consideration for the minority churches in all countries , and for Christians in eastern Europe. : |
| 6 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 7 | In a development that is expected to have at least some impact on the current jockeying for positions between the Unix factions , a 200-person UK software engineering firm , Praxis Systems plc , Bath , has now completed an evaluation ANDF installer for the Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc , which it says , ‘ exceeded the original performance targets . ’ |
| 8 | Aha that was just went in It was all blown to the side and that was it was kept just for the for the carol beasts for the sheds you see , for the that was what the what we saw what they bedded them down with that . |
| 9 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 10 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 11 | He criticised the way the selection of referees for the knock-out stages of the World Cup had been made , conveniently ignoring the fact that René Hourquet had been selected , only to turn down the appointment . |
| 12 | The unusually high indoor radon levels measured in Umhausen ( 2600 inhabitants , Western Tyrol , Austria ) led to lifetime radon exposures of the same order of magnitude as those reported for the uranium miners in West Bohemia . |
| 13 | ( 1976 ) have given expressions for the stiffness tensors for various fibre orientations using a different formalism from ours in which orientation functions and are used and the various integrals in sines and cosines expressed in terms of these . |
| 14 | But all this could soon change : a committee of vetinary experts within the EEC is pushing for the quarantine laws to be scrapped : vets in France and Germany in particular say that vaccination is a more effective way of preventing rabies . |
| 15 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 16 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 17 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 18 | A fine win at Grimsby for the chart topers from south London . |
| 19 | The biggest entry is for the handicap singles with 74 players competing . |
| 20 | In 1977 , the State of Oregon launched its famous resource conservation scheme , and it has proved highly popular for the state politicians in Oregon . |
| 21 | ESTEFANIA KNUTH , a former winner of the World Junior Championship , finished six shots clear of the other 31 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the French Women Juniors ' Championship , here yesterday . |
| 22 | Four of the victorious Walker Cup side qualified for the match-play stages of the U.S. Amateur at Merion . |
| 23 | Next on the list was the British Women 's Championship at Hoylake where she defeated Mary McKenna , Aline van der Haegen , Linzi Fletcher , Catriona Lambert and Elaine Farquharson , in that order , after having qualified for the match-play stages with only a shot to spare . |
| 24 | She fumbled , looking for the windscreen wipers in the unfamiliar car . |
| 25 | Ironically , the best hope for the pilot whales of the North Atlantic is that they are becoming unsafe for humans to eat . |
| 26 | Values for the absorption coefficients of several different gases in water at s.t.p. are shown in table 6.1 . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the Official Solicitor on that day tried to persuade the NIRC to convene immediately so that he could apply for the committal orders to be discharged . |
| 28 | The above design conclusions have profound implications for the construction details of my chair . |
| 29 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 30 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |