Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1920 Poland was awarded a Corridor to the sea through West Prussia to the Baltic coast . |
| 2 | It was about 13 miles from Hotel Vancouver and was reached by driving through Stanley Park , across the Lions ' Gate Bridge , then turning left through West Vancouver to the end of Marine Drive . |
| 3 | These radical discussions during gang labour on the roads , and smuggling paled into insignificance when compared with the worst of all seen by the investigators , the widespread encouragement of idleness and vice by regular poor relief in cash . |
| 4 | Andrew and John were recruited with the objective of being prepared for Shell work on the Brent contract , and have systematically followed a route of planned training , to work for Wood Group Engineering Contractors on a Shell site and installation . |
| 5 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 6 | Hussein Kamil , his cousin and son-in-law , as Defence Minister with the rank of general . |
| 7 | Mr Heseltine who 's MP for Henley , walked out of Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet as Defence Secretary over the Westland helicopters affair in January nineteen eighty six . |
| 8 | Moreover , most such areas exist in isolation from the traditional provision for foot traffic in the rest of each built-up area . |
| 9 | Lewyn and his son Walter undertook in 1392 to renew all defective roads at Brancepeth , probably the result of heavy wear during building operations at the castle there . |
| 10 | Her first career as a hairdresser no longer appealed so she took an Options For Change course at the Essex Business Centre and has now completed 30 hours of a counselling course . |
| 11 | The base had been in line for the axe under the Options for Change review of the Services but was saved because the cost of relocation exceeded the saving . |
| 12 | Wallich returned to India in 1838 as assistant surgeon in the Indian Army and saw considerable active service during the next nineteen years , taking part in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns of 1842 and 1847 and acting as field surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion of 1855–6 . |
| 13 | The equivalent of income-based taxes on the expenditure side is the personal expenditure tax , which places a tax on the difference between income receipts during the financial year and savings in the year , i.e. a tax on that part of the income that is consumed . |
| 14 | In addition , because of increased opportunities for course provision under the 1924 Regulations the administrative costs of the District almost trebled between 1925 and 1931 . |
| 15 | The basis of settlement is the same as for Part B of the policy . |
| 16 | Timber was in high demand for building ships for the British Navy and many fine trees were felled . |
| 17 | They had ideas for building houses from the roof downwards , turning rocks into soft material , making rivers run uphill , and saving sunshine in bottles . |
| 18 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 19 | But Coun Olwen Jones , in a letter to the council , supported the quarry company 's application so that it would have the flexibility to compete for contract work on the A55 . |
| 20 | during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion |
| 21 | ‘ during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion ‘ During daytime hours ’ means the time between half-an-hour before sunrise and half-an-hour after sunset . |
| 22 | ‘ during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion ’ The daytime hours can be proved by reference to an almanac or from a witness 's observations if this is found necessary . |
| 23 | In additon , the washings were stored and analysed for drug content by the same method . |
| 24 | Now if you choose the right site for your hole on that road , you have a good view through field glasses of the camp — and no one 's going to notice a small slit in the canvas cover of a telephone-hole . |
| 25 | The swans that we are concerned about build ships on the River Tyne . |
| 26 | The shareholders are treated as having received a distribution of £100 on which tax of £20 has been paid and , assuming they will be liable for income tax at the higher rate , will have a further £20 of income tax to pay ( see s14 TA 1988 and sections 77 to 79 of the 1993 Finance Act ) . |
| 27 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 28 | He rightly felt that in the age of nuclear weapons any future war in Europe would be an act of suicide and so from 1956 he appealed repeatedly for an improvement in East-West relations and for super-power disengagement in the continent 's central heartland . |
| 29 | Finance Ministry officials specifically related the reduction in the rate of increase for defence expenditure to the relaxation of tension between what had been the Soviet bloc and the West . |
| 30 | The Economist reported that , although it was more likely that the SDA would receive just 22,000,000 million yen , a 6.1 per cent increase to 4,159,000 million yen had been allocated for defence spending in the draft budget unveiled in January 1990 for the forthcoming 1990 fiscal year . |