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

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1 The first U.S. survey of nineteenth-century Italian art for fifty years opens at the Walters this month
2 For political reasons connected with the gold standard , it was decided no one outside his immediate circle should know .
3 The dual division of ecclesiastical power has also been important because the religious orders have often been the vehicle for innovative theologies differing from the Roman line .
4 A retention will normally be made where the purchaser is concerned about specific liabilities identified in the due diligence or disclosure exercises .
5 The release of Cicippio , who had been abducted by the RJO in September 1986 [ see p. 35023 ] , coincided with the payment by the USA to Iran of US$278,000,000 in compensation for Iranian weapons impounded at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution .
6 Even so , pyramid-shaped stone bases for medium-sized double-axes survive in the Labyrinth , proving that double-axes were scattered about the building , like crucifixes in a church .
7 In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station .
8 The elective regime for private companies introduced by the 1989 Act enables a private company to elect to dispense with the laying of accounts and reports before a general meeting in accordance with section 241 .
9 For non-US banks operating in the euro-dollar market such precautions can be reinforced by establishing ( for a small fee ) standby facilities , i.e. borrowing agreements , with US banks .
10 Three days into the election , when the main polling stations closed ( leaving another three days for mobile ones to travel around the countryside ) , 85% of the 4.7m registered voters had gone to the polls .
11 At each stage , yields will fall as economic transactors adjust to the ‘ disturbance ’ through the purchase of close substitutes .
12 Through the Societé Franco-Iranienne pour l'Enrichissement de l'Uranium , Iran held a 10 per cent share in Eurodif , whose uranium enrichment plant at Tricastin in the south of France had been partly financed through Iranian loans extended before the 1979 revolution to the French Atomic Energy Commissariat ( CEA ) .
13 Besides providing detailed information about regional brewers listed on the stock market , Flemings again publishes brief details about the outer fringe operators , many of which are privately owned .
14 It is also a chance for home-grown designers to sell to the world .
15 A further anxiety over the use of dispersed cells for metabolic studies comes from the finding that the metabolism of fatty acids entering intestinal mucosa from the lumen and plasma is different .
16 The Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys Longitudinal Study has for a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales in 1971 , brought together census information , with information about geographic movements noted in the National Health Service Central Register in 1971-74 .
17 But Shadow prisons minister Joan Ruddock said : ‘ Labour has deep reservations about private prisons run on the basis of price . ’
18 These are aids of a social character , those given to relieve the effects of natural disasters and those designed to compensate for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany after the Second World War .
19 The National Assembly on June 5 voted by 49 to one to revoke a previous Sandinista law demanding that the United States pay US$17,000 million in compensation for economic damages incurred during the civil war between the FSLN and the contras .
20 Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes .
21 Growth in the latter was , however , considerably more rapid than in the former , reflecting the availability of social security funding for residential services provided by the independent sector ( Baldwin et al . ,
22 Monitoring services Once the services have been arranged it is tempting for social workers to withdraw from the situation .
23 The context for social workers comes from the referral of an old person to the agency , an action taken by the individual him/herself , or by a relative , neighbour , or another professional worker .
24 Tunstill attacks practice guides for social workers issued by the Association of British Adoption and Fostering Agencies , for emphasising the removal of parental rights and placement of children for adoption and long-term fostering .
25 The organized system of social knowledge each individual possesses for social performances corresponds to the competence linguists attribute to speakers of a language .
26 The release of the prisoners , which had been widely anticipated following the successful visit of a joint Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Socialist Party delegation to North Korea in September , was interpreted as an important gesture of conciliation and as a means of clearing the way for further talks aimed at the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries .
27 Our data may , however , serve as a basis for further studies aiming at the identification of regulatory factors ( for example , hormones , lymphokines , cytokines ) that modulate the expression and function of integrins of colorectal cancer cells .
28 The crew lost control of the ballast system after seawater splashing through broken portlights washed over the ballast console and caused it to malfunction .
29 Wednesday are hoping Manchester United do the Rumbelows Cup and League double , so the two UEFA Cup places available for English clubs go to the second and third teams in Division One .
30 Apart from the destruction of the Channel ports , the greatest amusement of 1939 for English listeners lay in the increasingly desperate claims of the German radio to have sunk the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal , the only modern carrier in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war .
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