Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 2 | The findings were that for a majority of the firms the variance of anticipations exceeded the variance of the realizations , which is inconsistent with the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 3 | Interestingly enough , the researchers did notice a link between the foods the mother ate and her baby 's symptoms . |
| 4 | Let's take a look at the changes the Trusts , under N H S Trusts , staff can adapt their services more easily to suit the needs of local people . |
| 5 | As a result of the pilots the researchers are working on a separate form for children with disabilities . |
| 6 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 7 | She said an assault at the St Chad 's Drive pub on the Friday night was followed by a confrontation with the bouncers the following night when a gun was produced . |
| 8 | As a consequence of the talks the Assam government lifted restrictions imposed under the Disturbed Areas Act on Sept. 1 and asked the ABSU to stop the violence in response . |
| 9 | Alex MacIntyre , a director of the actuaries The Alexander Consulting Group , pointed out : ‘ It may be possible for the actuary to adjust the underlying assumptions in the fund value calculations to avoid the need for increased contributions . ’ |
| 10 | Andy has a party that night , partly for me and partly because his pal Howie is leaving for a job on the rigs the following day . |
| 11 | Section 317 Companies Act 1985 provides that it is the duty of a director of a company who is in any way , whether directly or indirectly , interested in a contract or proposed contract with the company to declare at a meeting of the directors the nature of his interest . |
| 12 | A hotbed of the arts The MacRobert celebrates in style |
| 13 | But McHale was a distant third last year when Fisher won for the third time , a sign of the troubles the three-times Tarmac champion was having with his ex-Carlos Sainz Toyota Celica . |
| 14 | Space does not permit more than a summary of the aspects the would-be consultant needs to consider jointly to ensure both a good beginning and optimum development for such a group , and readers are therefore referred to the guidelines offered in detail elsewhere ( cf Hanko 1985/7 ) . |
| 15 | Neighbours had complained about noise from the church and the council wanted soundproofing , a limit on the hours the building could be used and a ban on bass drum playing . |
| 16 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 17 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 18 | In a number of the houses the staircase has been preserved and much of the upper floors ; only the roof is missing . |
| 19 | These are similar to flow process charts except that no standard symbols are used , the chart is simply a list of the actions the operator takes but there may well be additional columns referring to the events which occur and the consequent information which appears . |
| 20 | She has made a list of the items the business owns . |
| 21 | On that same day in a letter to The Times the President of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , announced that work in their laboratories had proved that the danger of contact with cancer patients was negligible — we were not contagious — and that ‘ the importance of early diagnosis , the local character of cancer at its start , and the possibility of permanent cure by early operation are now the accepted basis for the treatment of this disease . ’ |
| 22 | Erm perhaps money could be spent on on face-lifting the areas , because a lot of the structures the s themselves seem very stable and sound . |
| 23 | ‘ What I have found in the region is that because it has experienced more downturns than other parts of the UK it has a resilience to the dips the economy may take , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Keeping a note of the times the child goes to bed . |
| 25 | 3 Order a supply of the drugs the patient requires . |
| 26 | An indication of the expectations the Act has aroused among fund managers can be gauged from the fact that , just over a year ago , merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson decided to bring together previously dispersed skills and set up a specialised division , headed by Rupert Marlow , to look after their charities fund management . |
| 27 | The evidence already cited on the worsening position of the poorest in the unemployment stakes suggests that these assumptions will lead to an underestimate of the difficulties the poor have in finding work . |
| 28 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |