Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 2 | COLIN KEITH , a hero of last year 's victory , has been forced to pull out of Scotland 's team for the defence of the European Championships in Aix-en-Provence from 28 April-1 May . |
| 3 | He has shown courage in coming to the defence of the Baltic republics . |
| 4 | The United States " can not — and will not — conceive all the plans , design all the programmes , execute all the decisions and undertake all the defence of the free nations of the world … " |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher will have to be satisfied with the assurances she will receive from Mr Bush , who will tell her that , since defence cuts are politically inevitable , it is far better for modest and planned reductions to be proposed by his cabinet and the Pentagon than for swingeing cuts to be imposed by the US Congress , which is already chafing at the thought of the US budget deficit being deepened to pay for the defence of the wealthy Europeans . |
| 6 | Mainly because the defence of the territorial possessions of each individual church presented the clearest and most immediate duty of its head . |
| 7 | The defence of the British Isles was , and only could be , conducted by the Government in London . |
| 8 | Few strategists would gainsay the primacy of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — upon which the sovereignty of the realm depends ; though , paradoxically , the United Kingdom has usually been so secure behind its sea walls that Home Defence has been accorded the lowest allocation of resources . |
| 9 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 10 | Sandy 's view of the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was chillingly realistic : |
| 11 | Pitt realised that the defence of the British Isles could not be conducted in isolation and that the defence of the homeland must form part of a worldwide strategy . |
| 12 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 13 | Researchers have also measured the response of the superconducting properties of a potassium-doped buckyball compound to changes in pressure — one of the fundamental measurements of any new superconductor , as it sets immediate constraints on the theoretical interpretations of the material 's behaviour . |
| 14 | The response of the existing publishers was traditional : they founded their own free weeklies or bought up the newcomers . |
| 15 | Perhaps the response of the ageing parents is to become ill , or demonstrate in some other way their dependency and distress . |
| 16 | The response of the Jewish leaders : Conflict stories and interpretations for today |
| 17 | The Response of the Jewish Leaders : Conflict Stories and Interpretations for Today |
| 18 | The response of the social services to poor standards of parenting should be the provision of more supportive services to enable natural families to cope better , rather than facilitating the removal of children to substitute care and the ultimate separation of adoption . |
| 19 | This research project assesses the response of the English universities to demands generated between 1800 and 1920 by rapid social , economic and intellectual change . |
| 20 | Where obviously inadequate parenting occurs , the response of the statutory services in most cases should be to support parents and help improve their parenting , whilst keeping the child within the family . |
| 21 | The response of the secular rulers depended on a wide variety of factors , but mostly it was conditioned by political considerations . |
| 22 | The response of the law-enforcement agencies is taken by some writers as further evidence that this violence against women is considered legitimate and that the state should , therefore , be considered a patriarchal institution rather than a neutral body . |
| 23 | In particular , the project looks at the implications of the manner in which rural and urban environments were changed as a result of large-scale overhead transmission ; at public reaction to the transformation of the ways in which homes were heated , lit and cleaned ; and at the response to the new forms of mass production facilitated by the use of electric power . |
| 24 | He denounced Western complacency " towards the daily killings of the Bosnians " and claimed that it stood " in stark contrast to the response to the alleged killings of the Kurds in Iraq " . |
| 25 | Whilst a single stimulation of the body surface close to the gill or siphon produces a reflex withdrawal , on repeated stimulation the response habituates ; that is , the response to the repeated stimuli steadily diminishes and finally disappears completely for a while . |
| 26 | It should be stressed that the figures do not reflect the fact that a considerable number of respondents answered ‘ yes ’ to the principle of capping but went on to argue that institutions should receive nothing at all by way of grants ( see , for example , the response from the Legal Resources Group ) . |
| 27 | And when they did get out , the response from the all-important fleets was lukewarm and enthusiasm from private buyers greatly tempered by the general sales collapse of December and January . |
| 28 | And they say the response from the local police was prompt and efficient . |
| 29 | The figures may be particularly prone to underestimating the income of the highest earners , who have more opportunities to hide substantial amounts of income than middle and lower income groups . |
| 30 | First , because the dole is significantly below earning levels , the income of the unemployed drops , often dramatically . |