Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top . |
| 2 | There will obviously be some differences between the tag assignments made by lexicographers and corpus compilers . |
| 3 | Cor great , I just and they 're doing tag teams , but the tag teams have joined up |
| 4 | in the tag teams , so there 's a , but at the moment four against two |
| 5 | However longer transitions provide stronger constraints on the tag combinations . |
| 6 | To make best use of them , the tag names are embedded into the text file which is then placed into the template . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stout was the strongest or stoutest of the porter brews . |
| 10 | The porter shrugs . |
| 11 | Under the Defence regulations in 1916 , sidelamps in little wooden boxes were fitted to the top of the dash , like their Corporation counterparts . |
| 12 | Professor Usher , writing later in the British Medical Journal , described this as a ‘ distasteful legal manoeuvre ’ orchestrated by the defence lawyers . |
| 13 | At the trials of Calley and others — either because the defence lawyers succeeded in having it excluded or because journalists wanted to spare their readers — the horrifyng detail was not reported . |
| 14 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A plea for clemency , submitted by the defence lawyers , had been denied by the six-member Grenada Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy on July 26 . |
| 17 | The decision was seen as a landmark case in that the defence lawyers argued unsuccessfully that Nicole had no legal existence at the time of the accident and , therefore , could not be identified as a victim of her mother 's action . |
| 18 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 19 | The letter did not indicate what would be blown up or where the blast would be staged , one of the defence lawyers , Austin Campriello , said . |
| 20 | This included a test of the new British government 's policy on both the European Coal and Steel and the Defence Communities . |
| 21 | The prosecutor presents the facts fairly and cogently to the judge who , after hearing the defence submissions , reaches a conclusion as to sentence . |
| 22 | They are completely incompatible with the defence policies of NATO , and can not be reconciled with Labour 's policy as currently declared . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You can almost see learned counsel sitting back with a sigh — ‘ the defence rests , m' lud . |
| 26 | The defence rests , m' lud . |
| 27 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 28 | However , evidence submitted by the prosecution , appearing to support the defence claims , was admitted . |
| 29 | To continue the analogy of the Whitehall market-place , the Ministry of Defence itself can be looked upon as a specialized commodity market , in which the three Services and the Defence scientists bargain for their share of the resources won by the Secretary of State on the main trading floor during the annual Public Expenditure Reviews . |
| 30 | On the one hand , they are experienced officers drawn from operational units with whom they keep in close touch ; and , on the other , they are advised by the Defence scientists and by the technologists in British industry . |