Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 2 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 3 | Almost half of Shrewsbury has Welsh blood , or at the least friends in Wales . |
| 4 | As an illustration , he notes that despite the many differences between industrial relations under communist systems in certain countries such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , and those under the capitalist system in Britain , the emergence of the shopfloor representative in the workplace as a crucial role-player is common to all , albeit making representations about different issues . |
| 5 | Business sales have also fallen more sharply than at the same stages of the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions . |
| 6 | It will use data from the Scottish Young People 's Surveys of 1985 , 1987 and 1989 to make comparisons between TVEI and non-TVEI pupils in TVEI schools , between TVEI schools and all other schools in Scotland , and between the same schools at different times before and after the introduction of TVEI . |
| 7 | We hear very little about those localities where people are working away quietly with encouraging results , and about the many examples of excellent collaboration that protect so many children . |
| 8 | We pray for the church , for all who are followers of Christ ; O God , we pray for the work of the province of Jerusalem and the Middle East , and for this Diocese ; for Samir Kafity , our Bishop , for the Cathedral , for St George 's College , and for the many parishes throughout this province . |
| 9 | Figure 3 a shows the fractional coverage of PSCs polewards of 25°N at 56mbar for current CO 2 with both the noninteractive ( run 1 ) and interactive ( run 2 ) ozone , and for the same simulations with doubled CO 2 ( runs 3 and 4 ) . |
| 10 | New nominations will be submitted by the Thursday , under the same procedure and with the same arrangements for consultation as described in paragraphs 4–9 for the first ballot , both for the original candidates if required and for any other candidates . |
| 11 | Sir Colin , especially , was responsible for realising that airlines are a service business in which competitors use similar equipment and fly to and from the same places with costs that can be much the same . |
| 12 | Alternatively , as he explained to Lord Derby , ‘ the cancelled parts , may , if you please , be bound together , and entitled Illustrations of Birds from Australia , and from the few copies in the hands of the public , they will some day be of value , though , it is true , more to the Book-Collector , than the Naturalist . ’ |
| 13 | When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " . |
| 14 | Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines . |
| 15 | The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent . |
| 16 | In the first two months of the year a total of 4,000,000 trees were uprooted in the United Kingdom and France , and in the latter fires in late February on the Côte d'Azur and in Corsica destroyed over 1,500 hectares of forest . |
| 17 | What positive action will be taken to assist people in eastern Europe and in the former states of the Soviet Union ? |
| 18 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
| 19 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
| 20 | We wish to see the key role of church and other voluntary-aided schools secured and available equally and on the same criteria to all religions . |
| 21 | We are grateful also to Lord Flowers and all the speakers at various events and to the many members of the University who contributed to the public launch of the Campaign for Resource . |
| 22 | Favourite excursions are to the Habsburg castle , the very cradle of the Habsburg dynasty , perched on a hillock among green woods ; to several other castles in the area ; and to the many attractions of the countryside on the doorstep of Windisch . |
| 23 | These things can happen in the best of families , and among the many pictures of the Rassendylls at home , you can see that five or six of them have the same blue eyes , the same nose , and the same red hair . |
| 24 | It would be exactly similar to a bank loan , to be undertaken on the same terms , and at the same rates of interest — if you are agreeable ? ’ |
| 25 | They now compete , not for comparable resources ( ‘ separate but equal ’ as the phrase went ) but for the same resources in the same labour or housing or educational or other markets . |
| 26 | Because of the many controversies within the educational system , and the strong teacher organisations , those responsible are extremely reluctant to comment at all . |
| 27 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 28 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 29 | This insistence on knowing for sure and examining the facts of the matter is particularly important in dealing with the doubts which arise because of the many misrepresentations of Christianity today . |
| 30 | It was suggested that a flour-mill for the employment of the paupers should be created , the flour produced to be used for making the bread for the paupers in the workhouse , as well as for the several parishes in the union . |