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

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1 The seller will replace free of charge any goods proved to the Seller 's satisfaction to have been damaged in transit provided that within 24 hours after delivery both the Seller and the carriers have received from the Purchaser notification in writing of the occurrence of the damage and also , if and so far as practicable , of its nature and extent .
2 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 .
3 In fact the pollution control officer has as indices of activity neither the policeman 's arrest rate nor the evidence which some other compliance system enforcement agents can exploit , such as the dollar amounts recovered by consumer protection officers ( Silbey , 1978 ) .
4 The Windscale cloud however , passed over most of the cities of England so the collective dose would be higher .
5 Klopf accuses artificial intelligence researchers of building only the top ( logical , verbal ) storey of a 1000-storey building .
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 If you roll two doubles for distance then the horses collapse with exhaustion and the model is removed from the battle .
8 In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm .
9 In the consolidated p&l account , the gain is nil — the difference between the proceeds of £2.1m less the fair value of the assets of £1.8m plus the goodwill of £0.3m , previously written off to the merger reserve .
10 If space A can extend beyond the excursions of B then the contact state becomes : Up to nine zone states , one being two zeros and one non-zero none being three zeros with one excursion stale .
11 It had shaken her faith , made her afraid to form deep attachments in case somehow the pain was repeated …
12 Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that .
13 First , if Mars acquired volatiles during accretion then the interior could be less thoroughly outgassed than that of the Earth , and this is in accord with the evidence for the lower level of geological activity on Mars .
14 Even if you ca n't find or afford tall elegant pieces of furniture much the same effect can be produced with a tall plant or lamp , wall-fixed shelving , mirrors and , of course , pictures .
15 A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice .
16 The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters .
17 By the accidents of distance and dates of birth both the Kiwi Keith and the Mackenzie houses had been spared the effects of war and neither knew the pain of loss or the sadness of wounds in young bodies .
18 ‘ We do believe in regional government , but a regional government that draws powers from Whitehall so the powers currently exercised by central government are brought to the North and other regions . ’
19 There are currently 27 county teams in England so the logical thing to do would be to divide the counties into three divisions of nine .
20 The fact that the Council 's Structure Plan , in which their planning policy is enshrined , has not yet been accepted by the Secretary of State makes these changes in direction all the easier .
21 Indeed , there is a powerful school of thought within the profession of financial analysis that earnings per share indeed the figure for earnings itself — is an analytical tool , and , therefore , that analysts have a very significant contribution to make in the calculations involved .
22 If the established set-up survives the pressures for change then the established constitutional theory will be of use as a rough guide to political and governmental practice , but if that set-up " breaks " then the established theories will be left beached .
23 More encouraging was another survey by HMI in 1950–51 of the adult education provision made by the Responsible Bodies in Norfolk viz. the Board of Extra-Mural Studies and the Eastern District , both grant-aided by the Norwich and Norfolk LEAs .
24 Pretty comfortable ways to while away the summer
25 It was round that the average labour requirement was 323 hours per farm yet the actual hours claimed to be worked was 551 hours .
26 Drawing from his experience of Japan , Johnson ( 1984 : p. 8 ) considered that this ‘ means the initiation and co-ordination of governmental activities to leverage upward the productivity and competitiveness of the whole economy and of particular industries in it …
27 TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team .
28 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 .
29 If the Moon also lost most of its craters from the final stages of formation then the apparent failure on Mercury of post-formation bombardment to saturate the intercrater plains may seem to indicate that Mercury was exposed to a less numerous population of small bodies than the Moon .
30 A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month .
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