Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an education in France , Wharton briefly sat as an MP in the Parliament of 1680 as member for East Grinstead , before a hotheaded pro-Exclusionist speech forced him to lie low . |
| 2 | There is no longer any need for the defendant 's solicitor to apply to have the payment in invested when time for acceptance has expired , but it will now earn less on deposit than on short-term investment account . |
| 3 | However , in 1957 some bonds were redeemed by the Club at less than par , so perhaps the President was successful after all , possibly by inviting bondholders themselves to suggest a lower than par price . |
| 4 | The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level . |
| 5 | In this situation , moreover , the distinction between mass as collectivity and mass as aggregate becomes crucial . |
| 6 | It can be seen as applying principles of ESP to the general curriculum of school education , presenting language as a service for the achievement of other than language objectives . |
| 7 | ‘ Let me remind you , Brother , that your own superiors have recognised the Count of Mortain as King . |
| 8 | The argument for this as-if strategy is straightforward enough : civilization is impossible unless the decisions of some well-defined person or group are accepted by everyone as setting public standards that will be enforced if necessary through the police power . |
| 9 | This view rested on an optimistic assumption that there was employment enough in the economy for all if labour was sufficiently mobile , but it was impossible to test this assumption in the 1830s and 40s . |
| 10 | The choice of Montini as pope was an enormous encouragement to those working for change in and through the Council . |
| 11 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 12 | Take the centre of mass as origin and the orbit to lie in the xOy plane with the masses along the x axis at time zero . |
| 13 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 14 | Near the entrance of the open-plan dining area was a large bird-table , and we saw the reason for that when meal-time came . |
| 15 | A committee was appointed to report on the situation in 1901 because Conference wanted to know how to secure candidates ‘ of higher educational proficiency and others of special promise ’ and they wanted the committee 's views on the ‘ desirability of raising the standard of the examinations for the ministry ’ as well as the possible need to give candidates ‘ a more thorough training … and a more complete equipment ’ . |
| 16 | The Irishman will stay at the City Ground until the summer of 1995 unless Forest are relegated . |
| 17 | Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel . |
| 18 | The view across the Longdendale Valley in the summer of 1988 as No. 47102 waits to return to Manchester whilst in charge of the demolition train . |
| 19 | He replaced Mike Stout at the end of 1988 after Stout began to suffer hearing difficulties . |
| 20 | A massive demonstration of trade union muscle on Saturday , when 5,000 placard-waving supporters gathered in the city square , heard the stakes in the dispute raised dramatically with a call to shut the factory for good if management did not take back the 340 strikers . |
| 21 | joined the Company in 1970 as lab technician at Ipswich and has experience of many different departments at a variety of locations . |
| 22 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |