Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressure group Friends of Twyford Down has accused the UK Department of Transport of deliberately misleading the public inquiry into the extension of the M3 motorway through the down [ see ED 61 ] . |
| 2 | A House of Commons report has blamed the World Bank for contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 3 | The spread of HIV infection has become the major public health issue of the century . |
| 4 | His concerns are echoed by legal academics throughout Scotland : Prof Robert Black of Edinburgh University has described the proposals as outrageous , while Prof Douglas Cusine at Aberdeen said they are a sad reflection on our society . |
| 5 | The possible effect from 1994–5 onwards of the lifting of the cap on QR income has encouraged the University to prepare plans which , if its assumptions about future funding levels are realised , will allow it to reinforce the physical infrastructure of the University as well as funding academic developments , while bringing the Income and Expenditure Account back into a cumulative surplus by 31 July 1996 . |
| 6 | A group of physicians at Harvard University has pioneered the use of monoclonal antibodies to combat graft-versus-host disease , a condition in which specific cells in the body turn on other body tissues . |