Example sentences of "[det] the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , given that the policies adopted by the UK government and EC Commission were a quota and minimum import price respectively , it is necessary to derive appropriate non-tariff policies to compare with the policies utilized in practice . |
| 2 | Does he think that such an argument will help him , given that the objections come from the doctors , nurses and auxiliaries , who are themselves the health of the hospital , and who will be responsible for its continuing health ? |
| 3 | The result has appeared unimpressive to some in that the issues embedded in the Public Expenditure White Paper remained obscure to most MPs and the annual debate did not become a major parliamentary occasion . |
| 4 | And therefore the schools should remember this when looking into going for other options , which may mean there 's very little difference between them and the D S O , and the fact that th that the profits made by the D S O will be lost if they have n't got that contract , and I think that 's a very important point that they should take on , and I think a lot of schools miss out on that particular idea . |
| 5 | After this the paths taken by the books change . |
| 6 | Er this the issues contained in the report er contined to be er , er considered by the waste management policy panel which is meeting now on er , erm a regular basis and will in due time no doubt report to the environment committee on some of it 's deliberations . |
| 7 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 8 | A senior American official said Bill Clinton planned to write off half the debts owed to the United States by Africa 's 18 poorest countries . |
| 9 | The greatest concentration of bobbin mills was in the Furness district of what was then north Lancashire , and in the mid-nineteenth century more than fifty mills were at work in the region , making half the bobbins used in the entire textile industry of Britain . |
| 10 | NORTH-EAST pupils have won half the scholarships awarded by the public school , Giggleswick , for pupils starting in September . |
| 11 | Nearly half the women questioned in the General Household Survey , published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , who drank between eight and 14 units a week claimed to drink hardly at all . |
| 12 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
| 13 | Make half the points lie above the line and half below along the full length of the line . |
| 14 | He sees a further shake-out of European personal computer manufacturer — with half the manufacturers disappearing in the next 18 months . |
| 15 | If the situation does not improve , half the children born in the two countries will be dead or disabled before reaching the age of five . |
| 16 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 17 | Approximately half the courses described by the data sheets were for professional staff , one-quarter for non-professionals and one-quarter for both or either ( both or either typically meant new professionals and/or senior assistants or all staff with supervisory responsibilities ) . |
| 18 | Just over half the profits came from the US , where Carlton 's North Hollywood processing lab dealt with a record 1.2bn feet of film , including Warner 's blockbuster , Batman Returns . |
| 19 | According to the Reuters news agency over half the candidates belonged to the PLA or associated organizations , although only 243 were formally identified as PLA candidates . |
| 20 | California bears the brunt of illegal migration , in part because it receives nearly half the Mexicans coming across the border each year . |
| 21 | For instance , a study by Fussler and Simon reported that over half the monographs accessioned by the University of Chicago Library during the years 1944–53 had not been borrowed during the period 1953–8 . |
| 22 | In Ipswich the situation was more complex : as can be seen from Table 3.2 , as many as half the clients referred to the project actually received no service ; 19 of the 27 were in hospital at referral , usually having been admitted to the psychiatric hospital following their referral and domiciliary visit by the psychogeriatrician . |
| 23 | Can he say by how much the groups affected by the scheme will have benefited in those years ? |
| 24 | What these methods do not directly tell us is how wide or narrow the range of internal linguistic variation is within each social group , and how much the groups differ in the range of variants used . |
| 25 | She gave him an enquiring glance , uncertain as to how much the others knew of the reason for her absence . |
| 26 | To find out what effect this has on the perch 's eggs , and how much the minnows gain from the ploy , Reiko Baba of Japan 's Osaka City University spent up to six hours a day face down in a stream , armed with a snorkel and face mask . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) The names of all the directors of a recognised body shall be stated either on the body 's stationery or in a list of the names of all the directors maintained at the body 's registered office provided that in the latter case the body 's stationery must state that such a list of all the directors ' names is open to inspection at the body 's registered office and must state the address of that office . |
| 28 | All the fashions shown on the night will be available to order in time for the spring and summer social season . |
| 29 | Trees along the road — some of the old people still remembered which particular trees — marked the starting points ; and all the races finished at the inn . |
| 30 | The [ draft ] FRS is based on the principle that debt should be accounted for having regard to all the payments required by the debt , irrespective of their legal description , in determining the appropriate finance charge and capital repayment for each accounting period . |