Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , just as important as stressing the plurality of political resources , which form the basis for the exercise of power , pluralist approaches tend to stress the contingency of transforming the potential for political power offered by the possession of such resources into the actual exercise of power . |
| 2 | They said the Chinese vice-foreign minister , Tian Zengpei , would confer with the British ambassador , Sir Robin McLaren , but one source said the talks would ‘ definitely not ’ include the plans for political reform proposed by the governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten . |
| 3 | In fact , at common law , it is better for the seller if he is not fixed with actual knowledge of such contracts , since he is then more likely to escape liability for consequential loss suffered by the buyer if the seller 's default prevents the buyer from fulfilling his obligations under those contracts . |
| 4 | Following agreement with a number of settlement banks , payment for gilt-edged stock transferred within the CGO is guaranteed . |
| 5 | Moreover the two bishops standing at the foot of the throne had both been appointed for administrative work done in the King 's service . |
| 6 | If he were tempted to decide against Mrs. McLoughlin , he would indeed ask himself whether any principled distinction could be drawn between her case and the case of mothers who recover for emotional damage suffered at the scene . |
| 7 | The conventionalist judge we just imagined , who worries whether deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin would be efficient in virtue of the precedents that mothers may recover for emotional injury sustained at the scene , has no need to look for any larger underlying principle " embedded " in these precedents or to defend one controversial view about the content of these principles . |
| 8 | The Pan-African Union for Social Democracy called for the total rejection of any modification of the election timetable , while on Sept. 15 the National Alliance for Democracy ( AND ) , a grouping of about 40 political parties , demanded that the 12-month transition period be respected and called for a reshuffle of André Milongo 's transitional government . |
| 9 | Early state intervention over factory hours , therefore , can be seen as public control necessitated by the blind self-destructiveness of capital itself . |
| 10 | A study of a remarkable set of documents put together by USAID ( the administration for foreign aid given by the United States ) during the past few years entitled , Environmental Profiles , one for each country , shows in considerable detail the extent of soil degradation , alkalinisation , salinisation , waterlogging , and desertification world-wide . |
| 11 | Several manuals were published : prestigious journals such as Scientific American reported on the importance of earth as a building material ; and in Britain , in 1920 , the government built an entire village out of the local earth . |
| 12 | This is then repeated for respired air blown into the burette . |
| 13 | The Contingency Reserve has always existed as a cushion to meet unexpected demands for spending without breaking the overall planning target for public spending set in the White Papers . |
| 14 | Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach . |
| 15 | Your comment that there should be ‘ a clear distinction between medicolegal intervention requested by the police and health care ’ may be an ideal but in practice it is often difficult if not impossible to distinguish clearly between the two . |
| 16 | More significant was the greater scope for historical research offered by the latter ; clothes , Laura recognized , could never draw upon their historical antecedents to the same degree . |
| 17 | Among the randomised trials of exercise based rehabilitation after myocardial infarction performed in the 1970s and 80s only one reported a significant reduction in cardiac mortality , but some of these trials offered only short term follow up while others were small and vulnerable to type II statistical error . |
| 18 | Shipping , including Isle of Wight ferry and hydrofoil crossings , was halted on Southampton Water last night after inert gas leaked from the tanker Mobil Petrel as it discharged crude oil at the Fawley Esso oil refinery . |
| 19 | Five people were rescued from their burning flat and 30 others were led to safety after thick smoke spread through the building . |
| 20 | When the Campaign for Real Ale embarked in the early 1970s on its crusade to preserve and promote our disappearing beer heritage , three watchwords came quickly to the fore ; choice , quality and tradition . |
| 21 | Returning to the criteria for appropriate technology listed at the beginning of Chapter 4 , the following points are apparent : |
| 22 | The protection for losing authorities ( for the following three years ) will be paid for by the Exchequer , ’ Mr Hunt said , answering a demand for central funding repeated in the debate . |
| 23 | And that includes the major issues of change and development within the labour movement itself ; the most serious indictment of all involved in trade union education in the past fifteen years is their failure to inspire a regeneration of the ideology of labour as a collective movement for democratic advance combined with the widespread dissemination of a modern organisational competence . |
| 24 | But the kindergarten 's fervour for imperial federation declined during the First World War , when the strength of dominion nationalism became apparent , and they moved towards more informal notions of imperial co-operation . |
| 25 | Fenner Brockway paid tribute to the understanding and respect for individual conscience shown by the state . |
| 26 | The pre-eminent virtue attached to jade contributed in a variety of ways to the smooth working of the kind of hierarchical society reflected in the works of Confucius ( 551–479 B.C. ) . |
| 27 | In 1939 MI6 received the famous Oslo Report , a package of technical information delivered to the British Legation in Oslo , containing a wealth of priceless data about secret weapon developments in Germany including rocket design at a then unheard of location called Peenemünde . |
| 28 | Grants to the colleges of advanced technology made at the time of their transition to university status brought the college library stocks up to a similar level . |
| 29 | There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University . |
| 30 | In 1979 , for example , of the 80,000 full-time teachers employed in further education only just over 36,000 , or about 45 per cent , were trained in that they had successfully completed a course of professional training approved by the DES . |