Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country . |
| 2 | The Security Service is part of the Defence forces of the country . |
| 3 | Similarly , in the secondary process the investment of energy is canalized by rules , by obstacles , that the defence mechanisms of the ego construct , which subordinate the possibility of energy discharge to the ‘ transformation of the relationship between the psychic apparatus and the external world ’ ( Lyotard 1984 , p. 58 ; Dews 1984 ) . |
| 4 | There should have been a Government white paper to properly calculate the defence needs of the country . |
| 5 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 6 | The researchers infected cells with both the plasmid and the virus , and relied on similarities between the vaccinia genes in the virus itself and those they had put in the plasmid to ensure that occasionally , the two would recombine . |
| 7 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 8 | A reverse takeover offer is one where an offeror company makes a general offer to the shareholders of a larger company to acquire their shares in exchange for new shares in the offeror company , with the shareholders in the larger company becoming the majority shareholders in the offeror company . |
| 9 | This was denied and speculation that the paper would move from its traditional support of the Left was quashed by the four banks which are the majority shareholders in the group . |
| 10 | Simply expressed , parliamentary democracy and the representation of individual electors by unfettered parliamentary leaders is challenged in favour of party democracy and the representation of collective ( class ) interests where the majority wishes of the party activists outside Parliament in the constituencies are interposed between the parliamentary leaders and the electorate to limit the former and to provide the party programme for choice by the latter . |
| 11 | The players include three guitarists , Bill Frisell , Vernon Reid and Robert Quine , who rage and soar far over the gutters of grunge-making ‘ Nightmare ’ , among many other things , one of the guitar albums of the year . |
| 12 | The infection spreads via the lymphatic vessels to the lymph nodes of the groin where there is usually a one-sided swelling , called the inflammatory bubo . |
| 13 | Secondary bacterial infection of the ulcers is common and there is a marked swelling of the lymph nodes in the groin , which can be very tender . |
| 14 | There may also be a degree of enlargement of the lymph nodes in the groin . |
| 15 | Other people may go on to develop further symptoms of their HIV infection including persistent swelling of the lymph glands in the neck , armpits and groin , continuous tiredness , unexplained weight loss , continuous dry cough not related to smoking , diarrhoea , thrush , unexplained bleeding , shortness of breath , cold sores , night sweats and fevers . |
| 16 | When breast cancer is terminal , it 's not due to the primary tumour in the breast , but because the tumour cells have spread through the lymph glands in the armpit to vital organs . |
| 17 | WASHINGTON , D.C. A Washington-area cultural festival , coordinated by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under the title of ‘ Tribute to Germany ’ , has provided the impetus for two exhibitions of modern German artists , at the National Gallery of Art ( until 16 August ) . |
| 18 | There are already several institutions of which we can be proud , and I understand that Cardiff may have a centre for the performing arts in the form of a new opera house . |
| 19 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 20 | Interest received by the bank(s) is used , firstly , to meet what are referred to as the funding costs of the loan . |
| 21 | Any directions to the funding councils by the Secretary of State were made subject to negative resolution by both Houses of Parliament . |
| 22 | It is true the funding arrangements at the time of the research did not allow for holiday pay , sick pay , and so on . |
| 23 | The recognition helix of the helix-turn-helix motif of σ 70 is supposed to make specific contacts with the base pairs of the DNA in the major groove from positions -32 to -36 [ 36 , 37 ] . |
| 24 | The source of this specificity is recognition by the protein of the pattern of functional groups on the edges of the base pairs in the DNA major groove , mediated by hydrogen-bonding , together with a contribution from the sequence-dependent conformational preferences of the DNA backbone . |
| 25 | It was used to produce the base moulds for the fibreglass fuselages for the replicas and carried the tail code ‘ 27–15P ’ in the film . |
| 26 | Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently . |
| 27 | ‘ I still expect ter see 'im come walkin' out o' that yard , ’ she said , nodding to the Galloway stables on the bend of the street . |
| 28 | The transoxide colours in the Aquacryl range ( transoxide yellow , orange , red , depia and maroon ) are very valuable in their own right for transparent earth colours , or for mixing . |
| 29 | The effort will be conducted by the support organisations of the member companies and will be managed by Symbologic Corp , based in Redmond , which claims expertise in customer-support technology . |
| 30 | The monostable is an edge-triggered device which resets the timer every time the mercury rolls onto the switch contacts . |