Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 2 | For the other three bodies the problem was the same : either the districts ( for Primitive Methodists ) or the individual chapels ( for Congregationalists and Baptists ) allowed men into the ministry who had no academic qualifications . |
| 3 | They found that 161 of the children were admitted , and for the remaining 200 children the initial decision was that they should not come into care although subsequently a significant proportion did . |
| 4 | For the following nine seasons the club has guaranteed not to increase these season ticket prices by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 5 | Even for the northern regional championships the players at Cleveland Spastics Centre in Middlesbrough had trained five times a week . |
| 6 | Each year for the past five years the South Cambridge Forum for Industry Education Liaison has organised a ‘ Chemistry at Work ’ exhibition for fifth and sixth formers from schools in its area . |
| 7 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 8 | The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated . |
| 9 | For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing . |
| 10 | For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums . |
| 11 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 12 | For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential . |
| 13 | Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior . |
| 14 | For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next . |
| 15 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 16 | For the past 300 years the substantial remains of one of medieval England 's most important fortresses have lain hidden beneath part of the city centre . |
| 17 | ‘ For the past several decades the majority of modern federations have shown a trend towards centralisation in connection with economic development and social problems ’ . |
| 18 | For the past 12 years the Government have behaved like latter day Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and all the other renewables . |
| 19 | For the full nine months the company saw profits decline 21 per cent to $133.6m and turnover fall 2 per cent to $2104.7m . |
| 20 | In response , the guardians pointed out that for the previous thirty-four years the infirmary had received patients suffering from the same class of disease as William Joseph C. from the workhouse , in accordance with the arrangement whereby the guardians were currently paying £202 per annum to the infirmary . |
| 21 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 22 | During the following twelve months the sultan issued a series of decrees which gave formal recognition to the Miloš-Marasli agreement . |
| 23 | During the following eight years the hyperparasite has spread rapidly and infected most of the S . |
| 24 | The origins of an organised market in the debt of the government can be traced to the end of the seventeenth century and during the following hundred years the growth of the Stock Exchange itself was closely bound up with the growth of government debt . |
| 25 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 26 | Now it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that during the intervening twenty-five years the lord had bought out most of the freeholds , which , with few exceptions , must have been very small , and might just be identified with the sixteen ‘ Farme Landes ’ . |
| 27 | During the preceding two years the consultants had trained a total of 227 preregistration house officers . |
| 28 | During the immediate pre-war years the characteristic features of imperialism rapidly intensified . |
| 29 | During the past eight years the use of natural gas has been rising , but wind and solar power have also been increasing dramatically . |
| 30 | However , during the past twelve years the balance between full-time and part-time students has shifted markedly in favour of the former . |