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

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1 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier .
2 To avoid confusion between the different arrows the keys ' names are used in the Guide instead of their symbols , except in the case of the four arrowed direction keys , where both are given .
3 ( b ) Cancellation and registration at HM Land Registry : notices If the former matrimonial home has been in the sole name of the husband , then on completion of the various transactions the Class F Land Charge ( or notice if registered land ) should be cancelled .
4 This decision , which honours Cape Verde , has been interpreted by us as a recognition of the unwearying efforts the Capeverdian government and people are making in the struggle to build a new society based on social justice , progress and equal opportunity .
5 This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light .
6 With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed .
7 The rent should be based on one quarter from the 1989 payment and three quarters from 1990 but as there is no change in the rent over the two years the expense is the same .
8 We could , I suppose , have carried out such an experiment without the drastic consequences the Lieutenant has suggested .
9 Any new hands were expected to learn the ropes from the old hands and with the small number of personnel involved together with the expertise of the ex-service officers the system worked quite satisfactorily .
10 And in the course of a few hours the softly spoken , silver-haired woman had made her feel as though they had always been friends .
11 Myxomatosis first shows as a swelling of eyes , ears and vent , and in the course of a few days the eyes fill with pus and the rabbit loses its sight .
12 In answer to foreign arming of the Spanish Fascists the European Left , led by the Communists , organized voluntary aid and recruited an International Brigade .
13 It seems that in the case of the higher primates the diffusion and decay of specific instinctual behaviours has facilitated — perhaps even necessitated — the evolution of a primitive and elementary ego-organization , that is , one in which unfocused instinctual drives are increasingly brought under the control of the higher cortical centres which facilitate drive-management and decision-making on the basis of great adaptive flexibility of response .
14 In the case of the major bodies the D B R W , the W G A and the C B D C of over eight percent .
15 By November 1985 the committee was ready to place proposals to a European conference convened in Brussels , where by a unanimous decision of the assembled representatives the European Community Regional Secretariat ( ECRS ) was duly created .
16 He stopped there , the click of the quartz-like cubes the only sound .
17 The more marked the congestion of the internal parts the colder the surface becomes .
18 ( 4 ) Under influence of the pituitary hormones the testes produce sperm and the ovaries send out ova .
19 The receipt of the Company for the purchase money , pursuant to such transfers , shall constitute a good and valid discharge to the Proposed Purchaser ( who shall not be bound to see to the application thereof ) and after the Proposed Purchaser has been registered in purported exercise of the aforesaid powers the validity of the proceedings shall not be questioned by any person .
20 Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee .
21 By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy .
22 Er Teddy Roosevelt down at the bottom with the Rough Riders the guns at the top of the hill , the horses at the bottom of the hill you 've heard of the charge of the Light Brigade have n't you ?
23 In a battle in the Menai Straits the Norwegians defeated a Norman force and slew one of its leaders , Hugh of Montgomery , second Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel [ q.v . ] .
24 Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances .
25 Constipation can also encourage cellulite formation — if the waste matter is not leaving the body through the normal channels the body will store it away from the bloodstream and again the islands of fat cells causing cellulite provide the perfect storehouse .
26 Clearly , the longer the time interval between the two assessments the greater the chances that there will be differences .
27 As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out .
28 Because of the idealized nature of the numerical experiments the longitudinal orientation in these maps is arbitrary and is merely determined by the specified phases of the planetary waves prescribed at the model lower boundary ( similarly for Fig. 2 ) .
29 Baker countered by saying that critics had failed to recognize the importance of the huge cutbacks the Soviet Union had agreed to make and that the US proposal was to allow only a very limited Soviet capacity to modernize .
30 Microsoft Corp reiterated its pledge to support the MIPS chip with NT at a meeting of the ACE remnants the week before last : there 's no talk of making NT XPG3-compliant .
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