Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top . |
| 2 | We thought we were just being cute last week when we hung the tag MABI on Apple 's multi-platform Cat in the Hat Macintosh Application Services ( MAS ) strategy ( UX No 435 ) . |
| 3 | If an " add " instruction is being executed , the hardware of the computer examines the tag fields of the two operands , and selects the correct form of " add " , whether the fixed-point , short or long floating-point , decimal digit string , or some other data-type . |
| 4 | Under the Defence regulations in 1916 , sidelamps in little wooden boxes were fitted to the top of the dash , like their Corporation counterparts . |
| 5 | It was reported on April 11 , 1990 , that tapes of an interview held following the 1975 trial , between Gerard Conlon , one of the Four , and Peter ( now Sir Peter ) Imbert , now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police , who was at the time of the trial a bomb squad superintendent , were becoming a source of conflict between the police and the defence lawyers at the judicial inquiry . |
| 6 | They are completely incompatible with the defence policies of NATO , and can not be reconciled with Labour 's policy as currently declared . |
| 7 | While I am far too gentle and decent a person to criticise any Opposition Member who has joined in the expressions of appreciation of this action , I have to say , in the kindest possible way , that if the defence policies to which the Opposition subscribe — I include all the Opposition parties — were implemented , we should not be ordering a rowing boat , let alone three frigates . |
| 8 | The women claim that the existence of commoners ' rights invalidates the defence bylaws under which thousands have been fined or imprisoned for trespassing inside the base . |
| 9 | In the military sphere the measures which Kang suggested included the exchange of military personnel and information , the notification of significant troop movements and the establishment of a " hot-line " telecommunications link between the Defence Ministers of the two states . |
| 10 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 11 | It was agreed that the split " should not lead to the weakening " of " the defence interests of either of the republics " . |
| 12 | It was agreed that the split " should not lead to the weakening " of " the defence interests of either of the republics " . |
| 13 | And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . |
| 14 | Representatives of the defence industries of the four countries also lobbied for the continuation of the project . |
| 15 | Against the background of the thousands of jobs that have been lost in the defence industries in the past couple of years , and the thousands likely to be lost in the future , is not the Government 's initiative wholly inadequate ? |
| 16 | In many plants , secondary compounds are concentrated in the trichomes and , for example , a ketone is thus concentrated in the hairs of tomato plants , but that same ketone has been found in the defence secretions of termites and caterpillars . |
| 17 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
| 18 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
| 19 | After working in the prison service , he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent . |
| 20 | The Ferranti family 's demands came to light as a result of an approach by representatives of Hill Samuel and Murray Johnstone , who are canvassing support among shareholders for a plan to make Ferranti hive off its core UK defence interests and merge them with the defence activities of Thorn EMI . |
| 21 | The wound response of tomato plants can be inhibited by salicylic acid and agents like fusicoccin that affect ion transport , and wounding by heat or physical injury produces electrical activity that has similarities to the epithelial conduction system used to transmit a stimulus in the defence responses of some lower animals . |
| 22 | As a former Minister of Defence , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer , he was all too familiar with the Defence arguments in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 23 | The United States President George Bush and the United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher held talks in Bermuda on April 13 which focused on the future of NATO and the defence arrangements for a united Germany . |
| 24 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 25 | Installed at San Salvatore , high above the Mediterranean near Portofino , the defence mechanisms of the four Englishwomen melt away . |
| 26 | Similarly , in the secondary process the investment of energy is canalized by rules , by obstacles , that the defence mechanisms of the ego construct , which subordinate the possibility of energy discharge to the ‘ transformation of the relationship between the psychic apparatus and the external world ’ ( Lyotard 1984 , p. 58 ; Dews 1984 ) . |
| 27 | There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country . |
| 28 | The concept of the ‘ drug career ’ has been used by a number of authors ( for example , Becker 1963 ) to systematise the response patterns of individuals who have come into contact with a given drug . |
| 29 | Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) . |
| 30 | The response results in a state transition . |