Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project focusses on the extent to which the transferral of industrial ownership between public and private sector has been justified , ex ante and ex post , by political considerations on the one hand an economic considerations on the other . |
| 2 | The Canadian government body charged with holding down the cost of patented drugs is proposing amendments to its pricing guidelines at the same time a study shows that Canadian prices are often higher than the international median . |
| 3 | Laqueur finds in the political , cultural , and economic transformations of the eighteenth century a context in which ‘ the articulation of radical differences between the sexes became culturally imperative ’ . |
| 4 | However under the English Rules of the Supreme Court an examiner may take the evidence of persons other than those named in the order only with the written consent of all parties to the cause or matter . |
| 5 | The Conference was according to The Deaf and Dumb Times of the following month a brilliant success . |
| 6 | Such a new source of workers should be a godsend to the harassed manager who favours volunteers but finds the short hours of the traditional volunteer a nuisance . |
| 7 | In the middle decades of the nineteenth century a disastrous crop failure destroyed the economic base of the Scottish highlands , which led to mass emigration and encouraged a new series of peasant evictions . |
| 8 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 9 | In the last two decades of the fourth century a fair number of cities , scattered all over the empire , experienced riots in which fanatical Christian mobs destroyed temples and ‘ purged the idols ’ . |
| 10 | By the last decades of the seventeenth century a much heavier emphasis than ever before was being placed on the need for honesty , for the diplomat to behave in a way which inspired confidence in those with whom he dealt . |
| 11 | Only two feet above the glassy water a dozen dug-out canoes are lashed to the side and more join us all the time . |
| 12 | Ten feet in the other direction a staircase rose directly up by the side of the end wall and she made for this . |
| 13 | He had released the pressure of his emotions in the only way a society built on a stiff upper lip had left him — but his control over his real feelings had remained even then . |
| 14 | For example , where a customer is experienced and familiar with transactions on the relevant market a lower level of disclosure may suffice . |
| 15 | Sir Ralph 's quarters were up a polished wooden staircase in one of the turrets of the White Tower a pleasant , sweet-smelling chamber in sharp contrast to the grim cell over in the North Bastion . |
| 16 | One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own ; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name ‘ Thynn ’ as a first or second Christian name for boys , and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter . |
| 17 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century a high proportion of the male workforce were without land and were working full time at the craft ; women and girls also found employment in large numbers . |
| 18 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 19 | From the last years of the nineteenth century a number of notable British figures began to advocate or at least speculate on the possibility of a close relationship with the United States . |
| 20 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 21 | For the purposes of the current project a bottom-up approach is an obvious one to use . |
| 22 | Some seven days before the due date a decision was taken by the National Transport Workers ' Federation not to take part . |
| 23 | The whole group of buildings in the square present a charming provincial ensemble . |
| 24 | The following table shows a surge in the number of female actuaries over the last decade an also demonstrates how male dominated we were 60 years ago . |
| 25 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 26 | Presidents usually nominate persons of the same political party as themselves , but at the lower levels of the federal judiciary a critical factor in the President 's choice is the views of the senators of the state in which the appointee is to serve . |
| 27 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 28 | Within each realm there is a hierarchy , so in very general terms in the physical sphere a skin rash or a cold is of minor significance whereas a heart , lung or brain disease is much more serious . |
| 29 | The final six tournaments in the 32 event an Challenge were completed during the Easter school holidays at venues throughout the country . |
| 30 | The 26-strong team has quickly set up an operating theatre , resuscitation area , X-ray department and a ward in two rooms in the British base a former school at Vitez . |