Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 2 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 3 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 4 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 5 | It may be possible for the arrangements for the funeral to be made direct with the crematorium or cemetery and minister of religion if desired . |
| 6 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 7 | This is a matter of considerable importance , since it is clearly desirable to know as much as possible about the conditions within the nuee ardente . |
| 8 | had terminating at Tooting Junction , only one was to be extended through to Mitcham and it would not be practicable for the cars on the other two to change over to trolley operation for such a short distance . |
| 9 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 10 | Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left . |
| 11 | Personally , I am sorry for the upsets at the third Test in Manchester , but many of our players are very young and keen . |
| 12 | I FEEL sorry for the parents of the little boy who had his face ripped open by an alsatian . |
| 13 | She always felt sorry for the children at the Ragged School and there seemed to be hundreds and hundreds of them . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON chairman Dick Corden admitted he felt sorry for the fans after the disastrous 3–0 defeat at Torquay on Saturday . |
| 15 | We are grateful for the contributions of the German Government , the Japan Festival and Belfast 1991 . |
| 16 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 17 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 18 | The Corporation expressed their satisfaction with the endowment and their conviction that it would be ample for the purposes of the School . |
| 19 | The growth of individualism has weakened the economic relationships between the generations to a far greater extent than that between the sexes within the family . |
| 20 | And how important is that for the birds of the area . |
| 21 | In the ‘ Oz ’ case , the Appeal Court ruled , in effect , that for the purposes of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 the word ‘ obscene ’ meant , and meant only , ‘ a tendency to deprave and corrupt . ’ |
| 22 | Thirdly , he may provide that for the purposes of the rent review under the headlease , the sublet property shall be deemed to be let at a rack rent . |
| 23 | The functional association of two domains can then be interpreted through a hierarchical search extending down from the initial checking for the intersection of geometric domains , through an entity or edge condition check , into that for the relationships of the sub-surfaces contained within the spatial intersection . |
| 24 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 25 | It is not usual for the advisers of the Crown to draw people out of important work when they have hardly had a chance to do what they have undertaken . |
| 26 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 27 | Do this for the women of the world , read the note John Furie Zacharias held . |
| 28 | It is interesting for the accounts of the skirmishing that rattled Canada in its early years , and the actions between Canada and the nascent USA . |
| 29 | While Father Aden tidies the rooms , Brother Bernard slips into his role as tourist guide , showing off some off the treasures of the Abbey . |
| 30 | We notice this about the covenants of the Bible ; they are usually established with the signs of sacrifice and blood . |