Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urban consumers of beef benefited ; within eighteen months of the lifting of the regulations the price of beef fell by half . |
| 2 | The wife is commonly , these days , a secondary source of income to the family and the loss of her income is something that should be taken into account when the claim comes to be made , together with , most importantly , the loss of the services the wife has gratuitously rendered to her family . |
| 3 | As a result of the pilots the researchers are working on a separate form for children with disabilities . |
| 4 | Boat Race : Oxford have rhythm of the Blues THE BOAT RACE |
| 5 | The section gives some indication of the questions the company may ask , but it does not specify a format . |
| 6 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 7 | On either side of the thrones the pictures of George III ( 1760–1820 ) and Queen Charlotte are by Harrington Mann , copied from the original paintings by Reynolds that now hang in the Royal Academy . |
| 8 | Before the emancipation of the serfs the government had been reluctant to return peasants to the countryside after they had served in the army , for fear that they would use their training to promote discontent . |
| 9 | To simplify preparation of the accounts the parties may agree it appropriate for the completion date to be at the end of a month . |
| 10 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 11 | She turned the slate this way and that , trying to understand the curious markings scratched on its black-green surface , wondering idly which part of the walls the slate had fallen from . |
| 12 | Those who benefited from improved earnings , however , were not the rural poor , but the farmers who were able to take advantage of the opportunities the Green Revolution had to offer . |
| 13 | Upon our arrival at the foot of the stairs the dog made it plain that stairs were an innovation he 'd not encountered before , by staging the first of many sit-down strikes . |
| 14 | Then to the horror of the students the professor dipped his finger into the samples one by one and they saw him put it to his lips . |
| 15 | It seems to me therefore that the free-thinker and the non-Christian can accept , without offence to his convictions , the fact that Christian morals are the basis of the criminal law and that he can recognize , also without taking offence , that without the support of the Churches the moral order , which has its origin in and takes its strength from , Christian beliefs , would collapse . |
| 16 | The findings were that for a majority of the firms the variance of anticipations exceeded the variance of the realizations , which is inconsistent with the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 17 | It may be appropriate to establish in the course of the discussions the information on the potential acquiror which may be conveyed back to the client . |
| 18 | The Bosnian Serbs may be persuaded to give back a little more land elsewhere , if President Milosevic of Serbia judges that this will speed the removal of the sanctions the world has imposed on his country . |
| 19 | The deer remaining at large were removed , and on completion of the work of the Commissioners the forests were declared to be disafforested , and no one henceforth liable to pay any penalty for hunting therein , except in enclosed parks . |
| 20 | Since the formation of the IGS the number of staff employed increased rapidly by the formation of units working on many branches of earth science . |
| 21 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 22 | Alison Fell , novelist , poet and editor of the anthologies The Seven Deadly Sins and The Seven Cardinal Virtues is joined by Michele Roberts for an evening of fiction . |
| 23 | As the Padre 's feeble voice continued to denounce the Editor of The Times the Collector lifted his eyes to the sky where , as always , the kites and vultures were circling . |
| 24 | I shuffled away and at the bottom of the stairs the back of my hand accidentally knocked the rail , hard . |
| 25 | Now , regarding the means testing of the pensioners the means testing with pensioners is dynamite for any government ! |
| 26 | 1 The attitude of the courts The courts have developed a practice of viewing the position of an employee as particularly special and significant when dealing with restraint of trade claims by an employer . |
| 27 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 28 | By midday the weather had improved , and with the help of the spectators the Vimy was pushed to the starting point at the far end of the field . |
| 29 | He sat back , breathing deeply , taking in the elegance of the shapes the boy had made , recollecting the startling originality of the boy 's strategies — as if he had just re-invented the game . |
| 30 | Before the advent of the Europeans the latter lacked any contact with more ‘ advanced ’ cultures ( except in so far as the influence of the Aztecs and other peoples of Central America may have percolated northward ) , whereas Siberia , as part of the ‘ Old World ’ cultural complex , was subject to many influences ( however remote ) from the great civilizations of Eurasia . |