Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 2 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 3 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 4 | Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another . |
| 5 | Hats were flung into the air , the cheering reached higher and higher levels , and Dawn Run and Jonjo O'Neill were engulfed as they came back past the stands and up the walkway to the unsaddling enclosure in the parade ring . |
| 6 | But i it grew slowly over the weeks and I think Christmas was an example of just the actual logistics of what we did at Christmas must be something of a feat in that so much stuff came in from the volume of presents and then the way in which they could be distributed . |
| 7 | Secondly , as these yields and therefore the cost of non-bank borrowing fall , the demand for bank lending is reduced . |
| 8 | Oil your hands a little more generously this time and slide them over the shoulders and up the back of the neck . |
| 9 | For some unknown reason prickles sprang up all over her shoulders and down the length of both arms . |
| 10 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 11 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 12 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 13 | Some continuity of personnel between the new and the old is often welcomed as the most effective means of preserving the loyalty of the clients and maybe the appointment of the sole practitioner or the senior partner of the acquired business as consultant to the new firm for a limited time will be considered . |
| 14 | Often images and often the sense of the beginning and the end of a poem are all you have — some journey to be gone through between those things — you know that , but you do n't know the details . |
| 15 | He deliberately pushed his chair so that it fell over , walked down the stage steps and up the gangway of the auditorium . |
| 16 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 17 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
| 18 | These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall . |
| 19 | If you do seem to be walking around a lot during meal preparations try to count the number of times you walk to various work areas and even the number of steps you take . |
| 20 | Forests disappeared , reducing grazing areas and possibly the number of cattle . |
| 21 | Sports sponsorship by tobacco companies and particularly the televising of sponsored events increases children 's awareness of the brands [ 7 ] and those children with favourite advertisements have been shown to have more positive views on smoking than those without . |
| 22 | The exposure draft aims to confine the use of merger accounting to the relatively small number of cases which are true mergers of two companies and not the takeover of one company by another . |
| 23 | If the latter were the case depressed share prices would not be a reliable indicator of badly-managed companies and hence the market for control could not have the efficiency-stimulating effect that is claimed for it . |
| 24 | The usefulness of large and long credits by tradesmen to suppliers was well known to the businessman who was secretary to several railway companies and later the editor of the Leeds Times . |
| 25 | County councillor John Herbert said : ‘ The visit highlighted the lack of modern technical equipment which is available to fire services in the former Eastern Bloc countries and even the provision of out-dated equipment from this country is an extremely worthwhile and valuable improvement . ’ |
| 26 | County Coun John Herbert , Conservative fire brigade spokesman said : ‘ The visit led by the County Fire Officer to St Petersburg highlighted the lack of modern technical equipment which is available to fire services in the former Eastern block countries and even the provision of outdated equipment from this country is an extremely worthwhile and valuable improvement . |
| 27 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 28 | A bidder who acquires over 50 per cent of a company 's voting rights will be able to control the composition of its board of directors and hence the management of the company . |
| 29 | But the effects and even the extent of toxic substances and herbicides remain a relative unknown . |
| 30 | As her son Charles , the new Earl Spencer , observes : ‘ It was a dreadful time for my parents and probably the root of their divorce because I do n't think they ever got over it . ’ |