Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The underground petrol tank was used as a mass grave for the bodies of those judged to be tainted by Western decadence .
2 There are two main reasons for the changes in these proportions .
3 Perhaps , like Meredith Jones , Lloyd 's natural interest and generosity were spurred on both by the obvious scarcity of opportunity for the children in that industrial beehive and by the war which had just broken out .
4 The learned judge held that the defendants ‘ intended ’ to interfere with the plaintiff 's contract for the purposes of this tort .
5 Well why on earth , if you 're s , y'know , you embark on that route why do n't you put something in the budget for the fruits of that exercise and we believe that you can save money by that and that er this is going to be one of those budgets that 's gon na end up er under strength at the end of the day because of that .
6 In this greater society " there must be in the first place a certain order of ranks between the chiefs of these particular ones .
7 It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management .
8 The two governments agreed to terminate all litigation before the municipal courts between the nationals of either country and the government of the other .
9 Using yellow-brown trimmings , cut out three thin strips for the straps on each of the four doors , and position diagonally across each door , securing on with a dampened paint brush .
10 I ca n't stress enough how we would love to get a hundred percent response for the parties from all our branches , so get the balloons and the collecting bins out please and please make the most of the idea .
11 At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life .
12 [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ]
13 Indeed , had these two phenomena been directly proportional , the decreases should have amounted to 80% for the transcripts of all involved genes .
14 Like Roy Herbert in his review of The Pencil : A History , I had grave misgivings about the interests of such a lowly item ( Review , 26 January ) .
15 I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support for the efforts of those involved and his endorsement of them .
16 These difficulties , it is argued , although in part the result of the marginalization of the arts in British education at national level , are also caused by the failure of arts educators to come to terms with the reasonable expectations of those charged with administering INSET at local level and thereby exploit more effectively the support for the arts of those charged with administering education .
17 In the more general field of eyewitness testimony there is a very substantial literature about the effects of such arousal on subsequent memory , this area will be reviewed in Chapter 2 .
18 ‘ 6(1) A person is liable in respect of any damage for the purposes of this Act if the person who suffered it ( or anyone representing his estate or dependants ) is entitled to recover compensation from him in respect of that damage ( whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise ) .
19 ‘ Needless to say , if we do agree , the responsibility for the consequences of that decision will be on your heads .
20 Despite the absence of a consensus on who had clinical responsibility for the patients in this scheme — general practitioner , hospital , or both — 28 of the 31 general practitioners wished to continue providing diabetic care within this framework .
21 Finally , I should like to express my gratitude to my partner , John Stacey , a lawyer of considerable intellect who , while bearing no responsibility for the contents of this work , first introduced me to commercial conveyancing and has since played no little part in my continuing education in the subject .
22 Without a shred of embarrassment , the sentimental Tory takes out his hanky and invites us to watch him dripping crocodile tears of fond reminiscence for the days of that most honourable of men , so lauded by the Conservatives of his era , Mr Tony Benn .
23 Our first priority must therefore be to work towards achieving a common understanding about the aims of in class support teaching , and then draw up clear guidelines about the implications of those aims in terms of our classroom practice .
24 Industrial capitalism produced two novel forms of pleasure travel : tourism and summer holidays for the bourgeoisie and mechanised day trips for the masses in some countries such as Britain .
25 It may lead to a gap between the values of those most closely tied to the institutions of the labour movement and the unwaged .
26 Their Lordships consider that it is a mistake to try to find an analogy between the facts in this appeal and the example given by Lord Bridge in the Hang Seng Bank case .
27 There is an unquestioned presumption here , which pervades current thinking about the police from all perspectives : that the effectiveness and quality of policing have declined .
28 In contrast to the Merger Regulation , that only subjects to EC scrutiny mergers having what is known as a ‘ Community dimension , and exceeding a certain threshold , the proposed Directive will apply to any general bid for the shares of any public company in a member state , regardless of the origin of the bid .
29 And , again no doubt rightly , we need no more have illusions about the motives of those leading the coalition than we did about Stalin , Churchill or Roosevelt — the second world war analogy .
30 A tragedy for the customers of all the banks , mostly French these days , that have substantial funds tied up financing IBM mainframes on the assumption of residual values that are emphatically no longer justified , and therefore do n't now have that money available to finance new and promising businesses .
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