Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the government could acquire broad discretionary powers under the Defence of the Realm Acts 1914–18 to deal with the emergency could not also a socialist government to meet the peacetime emergencies of poverty and sickness ? |
| 2 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 3 | The response of the rebel movements to these concessions was , however , to intensify their offensives and by December fighting had reached the streets of the capital . |
| 4 | Ms Barclay said she had been greatly encouraged by the response of the off-licence owners , who would be distributing drinks measures leaflets and beer mats . |
| 5 | For practical purposes , therefore , ‘ pollution ’ is something which normally requires some action on the part of the enforcement officer and is defined not by legal rules but by the response of the enforcement authorities . |
| 6 | The response of the security forces was first to bring in police . |
| 7 | Hon. Members should not doubt , either , the response of the security forces and the Government to that level of violence . |
| 8 | The response of the security forces to the peaceful demonstrations had been generally restrained , but on July 23 , following several unsuccessful attempts by the opposition to take over government buildings and install its " ministers " in office , Ratsiraka declared a state of emergency , including a night-time curfew , and issued warrants for the arrest of opposition leaders . |
| 9 | General manager Michael Prendergast said he was amazed at the response to the job vacancies . |
| 10 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 11 | But the task was increasingly beyond them , as social surveys showed the inability of the welfare services to cope with the specific needs of the aged , the disabled , and one-parent families . |
| 12 | The stumbling block here does seem to be the inability of the Charity Commissioners themselves to keep up with the volume of work . |
| 13 | It was ultimately the inability of the access streets to cope with a hugely increased traffic problem which choked the markets to death in the 1960s and led to their demolition . |
| 14 | Disney had considered closing the park during the Winter months but instead they 're offering a whole package of cut price deals . |
| 15 | Observers believed that Alia was taking the opportunity of the embassy sit-ins to strengthen the hand of the reformers in the party and government . |
| 16 | The audit certificate which is attached to the majority of the Appropriation Accounts says : |
| 17 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 18 | The majority of the test items require a child to respond to a question or an instruction by pointing to , or manipulating , a variety of household objects and models . |
| 19 | It was eventually spurred into action when the majority of the member states began to take unilateral action to control imports of coal into their own territories , so obviating the whole object of the common market since the new controls also applied to imports from other ECSC states . |
| 20 | The majority of the building regulations have little or no impact on the financial potential of a site , with one or two notable exceptions . |
| 21 | The majority of the camp followers were however , good honest women who were the wives and sweethearts of the troops . |
| 22 | The site is shaped like a truncated wedge and Pearson placed the majority of the school buildings along its east and north sides . |
| 23 | Following the general election in April 1989 the Arab Baath Socialist Party holds the majority of the Assembly seats , the remainder being distributed among members of the state-sponsored National Progressive Patriotic Front ( NPPF ) [ see p. 36601 ] . |
| 24 | As a matter of interest on the raffle side , David , is it basically the two pound fifty person that buys the majority of the raffle tickets ? |
| 25 | There were some undertakings still charging only ½d. ( or even , in a few cases , ⅓d. ) per additional kWh to domestic users after the War , and ½d. was not even enough to pay for the coal needed to generate that amount of electricity in the majority of the power stations they were then using , far less to pay the other costs of supply . |
| 26 | The majority of the steel components , including the fuselage tubing and wing grid girders , were beyond saving and , of course , all wood components and fabric were replaced . |
| 27 | The major demographic changes that occurred between 1979 and 1990 , in particular the increase in very elderly people ( 85 years and over ) , had significant effects on the age and sex structure of the majority of the care sectors ( table IV ) . |
| 28 | The majority of the training programmes specifically for non-professionals were qualification courses ( see Table 8 ) , covering BEC , City and Guilds courses , and Librarianship degree/diploma courses , with SCOTEC courses being mentioned by some authorities . |
| 29 | The majority of the hunger strikers suspended their action on Oct. 12 after Moshe Shahal , the Israeli Minister of Police and Communications , announced the establishment of a special investigative committee to look into their demands . |
| 30 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |