Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far from notional to suggest that the activities characteristic of the rivers and playing fields of late nineteenth-century Oxford and Cambridge were load-bearing supports underpinning the moral structure of British and imperial society . |
| 2 | Different groups , using slightly different recording techniques , can end up with quite different descriptions of the response properties of the cells in the same region because they are , in fact , recording from different cell populations ( O'Keefe and Conway 1978 ; Olds , Disterhoft , Segal , Kornblith , and Hirsh 1972 ; Stryker and Sherk 1975 ) . |
| 3 | Initially , the income effect of the taxes makes the individual ‘ buy ’ less of all normal goods including leisure . |
| 4 | Subsequent to 1974 , and consistent with U.S. GAAP , such grants are credited to a capital grants deferred account and amortized to the income statement over the lives of the assets to which they relate . |
| 5 | Expanding output would add more to consumer benefit than it would to production costs or the opportunity cost of the resources used . |
| 6 | In the absence of any distortions , the private cost or market price of a capital good also measures its social cost , the opportunity cost of the resources used to make the capital good , or the value of the goods these resources could otherwise have made . |
| 7 | Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’ |
| 8 | In the end there was no war and no division , the counts instead agreed that one of their number should be chosen to be Emperor , and that the Emperor should hold his title only with the majority consent of the counts themselves . |
| 9 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 10 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 11 | Bunyan replied that he could find no justification for the Prayer Book in the Scriptures and that its use was an impediment to man in making known his condition to God . |
| 12 | In the U K Save The Children has shown the link between a poor environment and poor health . |
| 13 | The percentage of rivers in in the U K in the classes one and two , which are good and satisfactory , are far higher , in the U K , than they are in Europe . |
| 14 | Three months before , the ILP had signed the Unity Manifesto with the Communists and the Socialist League . |
| 15 | Stephen Moore also provided the guitar accompaniment to the songs . |
| 16 | We should therefore see shields on their own as aniconic representations of the deity ; the shield motif in the frescoes at Knossos is a religious , not a military , symbol . |
| 17 | The great pressure of the overlying sediments and the mineral-rich solutions that circulate through them cause chemical changes in the calcium phosphate of the bones . |
| 18 | For example , the widespread use of DDT in the 1960s was suspected of affecting the calcium metabolism in the oviducts of birds of prey ( raptors ) . |
| 19 | At a meeting in Moscow on April 13 Jaruzelski received from President Gorbachev copies of the NKVD lists of the names of Polish internees in the three camps . |
| 20 | They show how the complexity level of the techniques used can be varied to suit the client . |
| 21 | Transport 2000 wanted to see a radical shake-up of the funding system for the railways in this country to provide a better service . |
| 22 | This was to be done by calculating the " critical load " of acid that each ecosystem could absorb without adverse effect , and then seeking to reduce by half the gap between that and the level of acid rain in 1980 , the base year for the calculations . |
| 23 | ‘ In particular , they will be identifying any tasks which can be completed using the base skills of the craftsmen , or with minimal additional training . |
| 24 | This should be contrasted with the position where the debenture are not qualifying corporate bonds , where the base cost of the shares in Target is rolled into the base cost of the debentures , so that no gain falls into charge unless the debentures are in fact redeemed for more than their ( lowered ) base cost . |
| 25 | Another issue seen as an obstacle to investment is that of capital contributions made to a company not ranking as part of the base cost of the shares for capital gains purposes . |
| 26 | Even where the base cost of the shares in Target is reduced , for example if there is a claim for breach of warranty made by Newco against the vendors which goes to reduce the overall price which Newco pays for the shares , the position can be restored if the amount Newco receives in settlement of the claim is invested in the target company in return for an issue of further shares to Newco . |
| 27 | This should be contrasted with the position where the debenture are not qualifying corporate bonds , where the base cost of the shares in Target is rolled into the base cost of the debentures , so that no gain falls into charge unless the debentures are in fact redeemed for more than their ( lowered ) base cost . |
| 28 | To obtain the base width of the gores ( minus any hem ) , the circumference ( 3.1412 x diameter ) must be divided by the number of gores . |
| 29 | The policeman , seeing the expiry date on the cartons of tinned milk , promptly issued a summons against the Jordanian manager for selling milk which was unfit for human consumption . |
| 30 | It is paralleled by a sharing of what I have called the bottom-up dreams of the businesses themselves . |