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

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1 Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable .
2 According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors .
3 Research institutions were asked to provide information about grants and contracts received during the period 1984/85 and 1989/90 .
4 The study will be based mainly on cases referred to the Child Sexual Abuse Unit of the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Hospital for Sick Children , Great Ormond Street but will collect other appropriate data .
5 The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month .
6 Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas .
7 Finally , the study of homicide is largely based on a quantitative analysis of details of 1,482 cases committed during the years 1883 — 9 and 1900 — 4 ( Appendix B ) .
8 More recently , she has exhibited with Mary Boone in New York and was one of several British artists included in the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh in 1991 .
9 Ramos , the then Justice Minister , rejected the accusations against the authorities contained in the October 1989 report ( and borne out in a document published by the Landless Peasants Movement , Sem Terra , in September 1989 ) and proposed the declaration of a state of emergency in certain areas to crush this kind of violence .
10 The National Liberal Party ( NLP ) announced on April 11 that it was leaving the Democratic Convention ( DC ) , the election alliance of 14 opposition parties formed for the February 1992 local elections .
11 The in vitro sequence selectivity of DNA adducts formed by the complexes 9 and 10 has also been probed ( 8 ) .
12 Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 .
13 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 ) .
14 defence insurers argued against the order 14 summons on two counts ; first the plaintiff could not obtain summary judgement because there were two defendants and one might escape liability ; secondly the first defendant sought leave to amend his defence to argue contributory negligence because the plaintiff had not worn a seat belt .
15 With less than nine months to go to the West German election on December 2nd , the East German result also strengthens Mr Kohl 's hold over his centre-right coalition in Bonn .
16 Rather it studies the choices speakers make from the options available to them .
17 It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress .
18 Among all 9760 subjects included in the analysis those with periodontitis had a 25% increased risk of coronary heart disease relative to those with minimal periodontal disease .
19 He knew that the constable on patrol in Boundary Drive had noticed no strange cars parked in the road that night as he passed along .
20 He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring .
21 It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund .
22 It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund .
23 TWO letters by readers carried in the November 1991 issue of RW&P prompt me to send you my views on what must be the most important issues facing the IRB and future Rugby World Cup tournaments .
24 He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager .
25 Loudspeakers will be lowered into the water from a pilot boat , and the whales will be played recordings made off the Azores last year by a Bangor University marine biologist , John Goold .
26 This time , they saw enemy fighters appear over Denmark , the first fighters seen since the March 6 mission to Berlin .
27 Vastly experienced Judges decided in favour of Ritschel in recognition of her strong uchi-mata ( inner thigh ) attacks , and a couple of dangerous pick-ups made by the West German .
28 Tranmere lost 3-0 at Rochdale , where the goals came in the opening 34 minutes ; Chester ( Don Travis , Bill Deakin ) beat Halifax 2-1 at home ; and Southport ( Jim Nuttall , Frank Hindle own goal ) drew 2-2 with Bradford at Haig Avenue .
29 He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ .
30 The cost of one SPS according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration was in 1979 put at $25 billion while $30 billion would be required to set up the project .
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