Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airframe is immaculate , with a wonderful paint job kept pristine with the help of a large bag of polishing cloths by the hangar wall . |
| 2 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 3 | Jaggeresque in appearance he began to sail through the submarine defences of the class system , rather as the English in India had transcended the caste structure . |
| 4 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 5 | Other printing projects for the church already underway include Sunday school materials and a new hymn book . |
| 6 | Adults tend to lose this enzyme unless they continue taking cow 's milk and milk products from the time they are weaned onwards . |
| 7 | On Dec. 12 an aircraft carrying two FMLN commanders to the peace negotiations was forced to land in Guatemala following an explosion on board , which occurred after a stopover in Honduras . |
| 8 | 16.3 The supply of money Definitions of the money supply in the UK |
| 9 | Thereafter , the baby is vulnerable to such infections and this is borne in mind when organising immunisation programmes for the child . |
| 10 | And there was n't the defence the water defences , tide defences on the west shore then that there is now you know . |
| 11 | Concentrating on promoting funding for its health care and nutrition projects around the world , UNICEF is asking the public to support it by sharing a meal with someone at work or at home and setting aside a donation which would then go to fund its work . |
| 12 | However , the field patterns over the land area in the upper left of the image are blurred by the smoothing operation . |
| 13 | This is almost as much fun as going diving and is the ability to interface the Solution with a desk top computer and record , organise and recall all normal logbook information and also any dive profiles from the Solution 's internal memory . |
| 14 | DEC will target Japan as a growing market for networked computer systems and a source of strategic alliances , Reuter reports from Tokyo : ‘ Japan is a critically important market to Digital Equipment , ’ president and chief executive Robert Palmer said at an exposition of DEC products in the city ; Kubota Corp has already said it will use DEC 's Alpha chip in its workstations and rumours naming Japanese companies that are planning Alpha-based links with DEC have appeared in the Japanese business press . |
| 15 | Having , say , opted for different income groups as the unit of analysis , a calculation along the following lines can be performed for each group : |
| 16 | Housing quality is examined usually by area rather than by social group and there is little information on different income groups in the countryside and their needs and demands for housing . |
| 17 | If services are reduced in scope and operate on a more selective basis — that is , serve only certain categories and income groups within the population — then public expenditure could be reduced . |
| 18 | This grew naturally from the edge and surface description modellers by the addition of procedures for ensuring that the object is fully defined by surfaces , and by giving these surfaces an " inner " and " outer " side . |
| 19 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |
| 20 | The finding of normal cholesterol values in the group of patients undergoing similar preparation before colonoscopy , eliminated the preparatory protocol as a contributor to the lowered cholesterol values . |
| 21 | British firms or consortia have won two-thirds of the consultancy contracts for the territory 's £8.5 billion port and airport project . |
| 22 | Secondly , the Convention may itself prescribe a conflicts rule and thus displace the normal conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 23 | Thirdly , the Convention may be silent both as to the substance of a particular issue and as to the law by which it is to be determined , in which case it is a question of construction whether the Convention covers the point or merely leaves it to be dealt with under the law applicable under the conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 24 | Since a Convention rule covering an issue displaces the need for resort to the conflicts of laws whilst the non-coverage of an issue necessitates recourse to the applicable law as determined by the conflicts rules of the forum , it may become necessary to decide whether an issue on which the Convention contains no express provision is covered by implication , applying any canons of interpretation laid down by the Convention itself , and if not , whether recourse is to be had to general conflict-of-laws rules or to any particular conflict rules laid down by the Convention . |
| 25 | Growing publicity over ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 26 | Growing publicity over the subject of Durham Ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 27 | Measures of availability and response times at the Bank 's main frame computer are also taken each month . |
| 28 | Ken Threlfall , general manager of the County Durham ambulance service , responding to concerns voiced by Teesdale district councillor Phil Hughes , said response times in the dale bettered the national requirement . |
| 29 | They reached the third round in four consecutive years , a feat equalled by very few lower division clubs at the time . |
| 30 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |