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

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1 These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes .
2 John Howard received his dukedom , supported Richard against rebels later the same year , and died with him at Bosworth .
3 John Howard received his dukedom , supported Richard against rebels later the same year , and died with him at Bosworth .
4 the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ .
5 Electronics millionaire Alan Sugar , who made a fortune selling hi-fis and computers at prices even the Japanese could not match , is planning to buy back his Amstrad company from investors .
6 Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ?
7 When work is complete on a range of entries only the text of the latest version of a new or changed entry is transferred to the main archive .
8 But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ .
9 If you are part of a group with instructors then the instructors should take on the roles of the Jones and tell you the sort of things they think Olwyn will work for .
10 The large-scale relationships between landforms and tectonics in plate interiors have received comparatively little attention from geomorphologists so the literature from this perspective .
11 Members of the Leisure Promotions team take turns throughout the night to police both the event areas and campsite .
12 Reduction in police overtime the force is already running at below the minimum levels it considers necessary .
13 ‘ The Government spends millions of pounds warning people about Aids yet the police have this incredibly sloppy procedure . ’
14 If the age of 65 + was adopted as the definition of geriatrics then the NHS should be renamed the National Geriatric Medicine Service .
15 Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) .
16 Leviticus , a person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental faculties would probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia , left Scotland because the Conservatives had failed to reverse the Socialist reforms of the previous Labour government : railways still nationalised ; working class breeding like flies now the welfare state existed to prevent the natural culling by disease ; state-owned mines = intolerable .
17 She knew what was right and wrong in fabrics just the same as she did in life , there were no grey areas . ’
18 If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead .
19 When he began to project his voice during recitals then the hoarseness always returned .
20 If those who beneficially own shares are the same in number and identity as the principals in the unincorporated firm of solicitors then the firm and the recognised body will normally be treated as one practice for the purpose of the Indemnity Rules ; i.e. only one contribution , based on one gross fee return , will be payable .
21 However , is this polarity of values really the case or is it merely a convenient dichotomy for argument 's sake ?
22 Cut the smoked salmon into strips approximately the same size as the plaice .
23 There may also be problems in deciding on the segmentation of a word into letters e.g. the letter combination cl can easily confuse with the letter d .
24 Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket .
25 The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning .
26 The atlas vertebra is distinctly more massive in the male ( Boyd & Trevor , 1953 ) with a number of dimensions particularly the breadth , greater than in the female .
27 If the acceleration of a system occurs over a small number of steps then the phase excitation timings can be generated by digital integrated circuits .
28 Now is it not they 'll ask you , reasonable to recycle some of those savings and surely regain the into the provision of those ten fire officers that the service so badly needs for a number of years now the Fire Inspector 's report has identified the confidence levels as we in our service .
29 And they did a lot of things just the old way you know , where they had the
30 If you have very few batteries then its range is limited , if you have a lot of batteries then the weight of the load is too great , so much work and research is being devoted at the moment to the development of alternative batteries .
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