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

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1 A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees .
2 COPPES was first formed in September 1980 in the two men 's prisons which held Political prisoners and in the Women 's Prison at Ilopango .
3 Arguments made to the House of Lords Select Committee are also made to the Commission , to the European Parliament and to the Governments of the Member States .
4 Put into precise terms , one can say that , in clinical and applied psychoanalysis , the individualistic fallacy alleges that the individual 's Oedipus complex is wholly explicable by reference to himself and to his family situation , without regard to the history of that complex or to the origins of the family and of human psychological structures as a whole .
5 Besides these formal structures , each party has extensive methods of contacting its own leaders including deputations to the Prime Minister , casual conversation , the impression conveyed by the ‘ sense of the House ’ and messages relayed by Parliamentary Private Secretaries and by the whips .
6 Other such epiphytes include some bromeliads and several orchids , where ants live in hollow pseudobulbs or between the roots .
7 The resulting convention , known as the Hamburg Rules is skewed toward the interests of cargo-shipping nations and against the interests of cargo-carrying nations .
8 In addition to his responsibilities for roads and bridges , the commissioners employed him to plan and erect forty new churches , mostly in outlying districts and on the islands of the Hebrides .
9 In the Structure Plan and in all earlier discussion , land was seen as something which provides a location for industry , for the population employed in and as a consequence of that industry and for the services necessary for that population .
10 The central theme of Hopscotch is the quest for the authenticity which Western man has lost , stifled by a distorting rationalism and by the conventions of the bourgeois social order .
11 It is the blocking of these windows by SO 2 , by H 2 O and by the clouds that greatly increases the greenhouse effect .
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13 What is striking is that the weight of crack seized by the police was only 0.85 kilograms and by the customs only 0.05 kilograms .
14 The role of generalized person in the infinitive thus allows a deeper understanding of those uses of the infinitive where it is not in syntactic relation with another verb and of the reasons why to is used in certain of these uses but not in others .
15 Competitors started at staggered times but with the leaders all setting off within three minutes of each other , the competition benefited from an added edge .
16 No record existed of any returns either to the Inland Revenue or to the Customs and Excise authorities .
17 The transfer of interests in the National Debt and public funds and in the debts of municipal and other public authorities , and of debentures , stocks , and shares in companies , is governed by numerous statutes .
18 ‘ The history of marine science is intimately associated with the development of techniques for obtaining the raw data and with the vessels from which the observations were made .
19 At the end of the day they 'll sell the minerals and divide up the profits , but without proper equipment and with the prices so low their income is minimal .
20 The spirit infesting this passageway is 20% likely to appear each round any character is in the area ( along this passage and beyond the doors to location 91 ) .
21 It is also necessary for the animals to be kept in premises registered under this Act and for the animals to be moved from the port of entry to the registered premises in a registered vehicle .
22 ‘ It shall be the duty of every local authority to enforce within their district the provisions of this Act and of the orders made under those provisions , and for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions and such orders as aforesaid as may be necessary to secure observance thereof .
23 The Funding Council shall not borrow money from any source , give any guarantee or indemnity or create any trust or security over or in respect of any of their property which was acquired , improved or maintained wholly or partly , directly or indirectly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State under section Payment of grants , etc. to Funding Council of this Act or from the proceeds of or any consideration for the disposal of any property so acquired , improved or maintained .
24 External courses are likely to continue to be the only viable way of meeting some needs in some circumstances and in the interests of promoting maximum effectiveness , further attention could very usefully be given to two areas in particular .
25 The Caledonian orogeny in reaching its climax at the end of Silurian times , expressed itself along the same Taconian lines and along the lines that were , much later , to be the Atlantic Ocean .
26 In this context knowledge can be understood as the presuppositions shared by members of a social group and as the meanings through which their action and experience are mediated — as a whole it may be recognized as the perspective of the social group .
27 The 1970s witnessed a number of developments of this sort and during the days when OPEC was still negotiating with the companies over prices , a device was contrived whereby if the dollar went down , the oil price went up and vice versa .
28 The Eurotech Innvest Service undertakes liaison between companies looking for capital through this initiative and with the investors .
29 There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings .
30 ‘ That the Dawson International Executive Share Option Scheme 1993 , the provisions of which are summarised in the Appendix to the letter to members of the Company dated 16th June 1993 , to be constituted by the Rules produced in draft to this meeting and for the purposes of identification initialled by the Chairman hereof , be and is hereby approved and the Directors be and are hereby authorised to do all acts and things which they may consider necessary or expedient for implementing and giving effect to the same including making such amendments to the Rules as may be necessary to gain the approval of the Inland Revenue . ’
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