Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also becomes more specific and for the higher potencies the remedy selection has to be more accurate for the remedy to work . |
| 2 | For the regional banks the ratio increased from 64% to 68% over the same period . |
| 3 | The fact that the people involved who killed Chai in the snackbar fight were mostly ‘ unemployed youths ’ , seemed to emphasise for the young intellectuals the disrespect for knowledge prevalent in a money-orientated society . |
| 4 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 5 | 12.01 am , Richmond and Barnes : For the Liberal Democrats the story in Richmond and Barnes has so far been ‘ so near but yet so far ’ . |
| 6 | For the full-time units the experience of South Wales was perhaps typical — high stocking rates , small fields , ageing farmers or parents , and old buildings all contributed to the extra work load anticipated in the future . |
| 7 | Also under discussion were the wording of the US State Department memorandum of understanding and " letters of assurances " which would define for the various parties the procedure of the peace conference , the terms of participation and US policy towards it . |
| 8 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 9 | A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded . |
| 10 | However , for the individual readers the impact of reading of reports of sex crime in the national press is likely to be more important in moulding their view of what is happening in the nation . |
| 11 | Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP , Sirimavo Bandaranaike l. , Anura Bandaranaike national organizer ) ; Sri Lanka Mahajana Party ( SLMP , Ossie Abeygoonasekara l. , part of the USA in 1988 ) ; Sri Lankan Moslem Conference ( SLMC ) ; Tamil United Liberation Front ( TULF , K. Padmanabha sec. -gen. , Vardharaja Perumal l. ) ; for the 1989 elections the TULF front included the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) ; United Socialist Alliance ( USA , Vasudeva Nanayakkara l. ) a grouping formed in 1988 and including the Communist Party and the historically Trotskyite Lauka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ) and Nava Sama Samaja Party ( NSSP ) . |
| 12 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 13 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 14 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 15 | In view of the universality and range of the interview situation it is not surprising that there has been extensive research , but for the same reasons the research is of little operational consequence . |
| 16 | For the evolving herbivores the advantage of an upright stance was soon complemented by the ability to rear up on hind legs to reach higher-growing plants . |
| 17 | THE Premier League may have been billed as a whole new ball game , but for the smaller clubs the survival struggle is the same as ever . |
| 18 | During the Napoleonic wars the number of prosecutions for sodomy increased . |
| 19 | Personal and telephone bookings can be made at the Cashier 's Office , University of Ulster , Coleraine during the following hours The Cashier 's Office also accepts postal bookings . |
| 20 | During the following months the School managed to carry on , but the atmosphere must have been one of great despondency . |
| 21 | During the final minutes the woman in front of us exploded . |
| 22 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 23 | During the relevant years the school had surplus pupil capacity and was thus able to take the sons of the taxpayers without turning away other boys able to satisfy the educational entry requirement . |
| 24 | During the preceding years the hairpin had perforated the inner end of the vagina and eventually turned through 180° . |
| 25 | 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier . |
| 26 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 27 | During the subsequent weeks the haematocrit usually stabilises at a low level , but only at the expense of a two- to three-fold compensatory expansion of erythropoiesis . |
| 28 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 29 | During the inter-war years the trend seems to have been towards increasing privatisation of the respectable working class family . |
| 30 | During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work . |