Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [prep] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |
| 2 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
| 3 | Superb photographs illustrate the remarkable life-cycles of ferns and their close relatives , and their extraordinary adaptability — for example , ferns growing in impenetrable mangrove swamps or between the boulders of the Mexican desert . |
| 4 | The increased use of personal computers means that files of secret information may be left lying around on a cassette or floppy disc in unlocked offices or at the homes of executives . |
| 5 | You could divide your plot into squares or like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 6 | From there , it is delivered to shops or to the warehouses of other record companies . |
| 7 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 8 | Parents and governors , on the other side , know what they are told , what they sense through adult contact with schools or through the reports of children and the family . |
| 9 | This meant goodbye to the subsidies for the arts and to the traces of freedom for the press . |
| 10 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 11 | Mr Töpfer has threatened to apply a similar scheme to car manufacturers and to the makers of electronic goods , such as computers and television sets . |
| 12 | This is self-explanatory and is needed for comparison purposes both between organizations and between the needs of present and future generations . |
| 13 | In addition to his responsibilities for roads and bridges , the commissioners employed him to plan and erect forty new churches , mostly in outlying districts and on the islands of the Hebrides . |
| 14 | These specialized tactile hairs form the whiskers of the upper lips , and are also found on the cheeks and the chin , over the eyes and on the wrists of the forelegs . |
| 15 | In 1938 Nizan was unquestionably a winner , in his own eyes and in the eyes of his peers . |
| 16 | Her squashed-pekinese face looked peculiar , as though someone had smudged dusty shadows under the eyes and in the hollows of the cheeks . |
| 17 | George Wood had hinted , and not too darkly , about the ‘ lads ’ who knew how to get past the guards and into the mines at night : he had intimated that there was a prosperous smugglers ' route through the highest mountain passes to the coast where the ore would be taken over to Ireland or down to Liverpool and Swansea . |
| 18 | The transfer of interests in the National Debt and public funds and in the debts of municipal and other public authorities , and of debentures , stocks , and shares in companies , is governed by numerous statutes . |
| 19 | The soot deposits from its chimneys fall in the residential area in which it is sited , settling on washing , paintwork and parked cars and on the plants in people 's gardens — all of which suffer . |
| 20 | The town boasts several fish and chip shops and between the hours of noon and two queues stretch out to sea . |
| 21 | In Iran Roosevelt noted , that the economic blockade was losing Mossadeq his support , both among the mullahs and among the merchants in the bazaar , Indeed , his erratic and increasingly dogmatic responses to the crisis meant that even some of his own National Front supporters were defecting form him . |
| 22 | Jesus fought his battles with his own words and with the words of his Bible , and he sent his disciples out to preach both . |
| 23 | It is therefore necessary to become able to recognize and attach meaning to the words and to the patterns of which the sentences consist . |
| 24 | So four major fund raising schemes and a lot is being planned locally , by branches and by the councils in Scotland , Northern Ireland and Wales . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 26 | Emphasis on caring for people in their own homes and in the communities in which they live means that more and more initiatives and nursing teams will become community based . |
| 27 | The resulting convention , known as the Hamburg Rules is skewed toward the interests of cargo-shipping nations and against the interests of cargo-carrying nations . |
| 28 | Fish excrete both from their vents and through the gills in the form of ammonia . |
| 29 | Rather it is necessary to look at the people involved — the professionals — and understand how they relate both to their clients and to the organisations in which they work , for it is these structures that powerfully condition the primary relationships . |
| 30 | The concluding section of this chapter draws upon the experience of all four sample schools and on the perceptions of DCSLs to summarise the impact of the project upon Minor award schools . |