Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Seven Years War the Austrian army is said to have lost over 62,000 men in this way , that of France about 70,000 , and that of Prussia about 80,000 . |
| 2 | Crime and tort relate closely as well , not only obviously by virtue of the same facts giving rise to different legal consequences but also , more interestingly , since the corning into effect of s. 35 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 1973 , by virtue of the criminal courts pre-empting the civil courts in the matter of compensation , perhaps even in circumstances where no private right of action otherwise obtains . |
| 3 | Throughout the new Sciences provision the emphasis is on the development of scientific attitudes and the vocational applications of science . |
| 4 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 5 | Under the 1950 Shops Act the council has a duty to prosecute shops which trade on a Sunday . |
| 6 | Under the Special powers Act the government has the full authority to act and has failed to do so . |
| 7 | Victor Hugo says there will be no revolution until the middle classes man the barricades er which they 're beginning to do now . |
| 8 | The Republicans are in the civil rights movement the same as they are in the trade unions . |
| 9 | In a few days time the nation will again pay lip service to the thousands killed in action during the Second World War , while preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic with a spectacular visit from a NATO fleet in May . |
| 10 | In a few years time the two German states could be virtually a single economic area . |
| 11 | In a few years time the fundholders may have very little room to manoeuvre but will still have to cope with the burden of administering their fund . |
| 12 | In the long run I think it will be a loss to the Government , for the very simple reason we have got to meet this competition and if we do n't in a few years time the housewife possibly will be paying a lot more money for the produce . |
| 13 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |
| 14 | On Sept. 25 three gendarmes were arrested after 10 detainees had suffocated in an airless police cell the previous week . |