Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Seven Years War the Austrian army is said to have lost over 62,000 men in this way , that of France about 70,000 , and that of Prussia about 80,000 . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards , another golfing-designed stamp was issued in memory of Mildred " Babe " Zaharias , one of the greatest women golfers the game has known , and a founder/charter member of the American Ladies ' Professional Golfing Association . |
| 3 | Despite the much vaunted heating and ventilating system of the new police headquarters the windows of Wycliffe 's office were almost obscured by condensation and the air had a clammy warmth which reminded him of the tropical house at Kew . |
| 4 | Crime and tort relate closely as well , not only obviously by virtue of the same facts giving rise to different legal consequences but also , more interestingly , since the corning into effect of s. 35 of the Powers of the Criminal Courts Act 1973 , by virtue of the criminal courts pre-empting the civil courts in the matter of compensation , perhaps even in circumstances where no private right of action otherwise obtains . |
| 5 | Throughout the new Sciences provision the emphasis is on the development of scientific attitudes and the vocational applications of science . |
| 6 | The telegraph now allowed instantaneous communication with the farthest reaches o the empire , while the steamship brought everywhere in the world within a few weeks ' sail of home . |
| 7 | If we had stuck with the fair rates policy the vast majority of people in Britain might have been able to bear that price and public services would remain public services , not sacrificial lambs on the altar of the ideology of the Conservative party . |
| 8 | Under the 1950 Shops Act the council has a duty to prosecute shops which trade on a Sunday . |
| 9 | Under the Special powers Act the government has the full authority to act and has failed to do so . |
| 10 | Victor Hugo says there will be no revolution until the middle classes man the barricades er which they 're beginning to do now . |
| 11 | The Republicans are in the civil rights movement the same as they are in the trade unions . |