Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inter-relationships between the parts are of crucial significance . |
| 2 | Most of the current partnerships in further and higher education ( FHE ) are of this nature , even if the inter-relationships of the parties are complicated , even complex , because the employer contribution usually relates to the financial state of the firm and this may change abruptly . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the idea of judicial independence in the sense of politicians not directly interfering with the activities of the courts was not a principle upheld in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | In general the activities of the masses were though of as mindless but they were at least non-political and in many cases they even encouraged the acceptance of social norms and new routines necessary to urban and industrial life . |
| 5 | The activities of the unions are supervised by the Registrar of Friendly Societies . |
| 6 | The response of the companies is that such prices are necessary to recoup the costs of R&D , and to compensate for risk , since only a small proportion of R&D generates innovations that are commercially viable . |
| 7 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 8 | The response of the economists was different . |
| 9 | The income of the lands was divided among the canons of the minster , and they built their respective manors to the north and south of the church . |
| 10 | But it is complicated and I er mean really for the average investor , unless you 're a non-taxpayer , because the in er the income from the gilts is gross , it may be worth er it may be worth a non-taxpayer holding gilts , and er getting a gross yield of maybe eight and a quarter , nine percent . |
| 11 | When the city decided to construct its canal system the defences of the terraggi were flattened and a circular waterway — with obvious defensive uses — was constructed just outside it . |
| 12 | The forms of the vessels were raised by hammering and completed by soldering on additional cast or hammered features . |
| 13 | Some of the anthropologists chose not to refer to their ethnographic experience but to address more general issues of methodology and definition ( Carrithers , Campbell , Heelas ) , but the majority of the papers are embedded in the particularity of an ethnographic setting . |
| 14 | The majority of the inhabitants were still the middling farmers of old , but the number of landless cottagers was on the increase . |
| 15 | In general there appears little to challenge the important conclusion of Mathias and O'Brien that the main economic incidence of British taxation was on the level of effective demand , for the majority of the taxpayers were not savers . |
| 16 | A number of Republicans within Congress also encouraged a full exposure of the scandal and , confident that the majority of the offenders were Democrats , called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the affair . |
| 17 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 18 | By December 1990 the airframe and the majority of the systems were ready to re-ship back to Chino to be mated with the Nixon-built Griffon engine . |
| 19 | The majority of the fruits are from California , Australia and South Africa . |
| 20 | The majority of the pavements were wide enough to pass pedestrians easily in a wheelchair and relatively few problems were encountered . |
| 21 | The majority of the advisers were " long-time pro-Peking figures and confirmed establishment types " . |
| 22 | A detailed assessment of the majority of the SSAPs is outside the scope of this book , except for SSAP2 which is discussed below and SSAP9 which is discussed in detail in Chapter 12 . |
| 23 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 24 | The majority of the terminals are British Rail terminals . |
| 25 | The whole book is extensively referenced and this aspect is particularly valuable because the majority of the citations are to Russian work published during the past 20 years , much of which has not previously been translated . |
| 26 | Metal extraction was difficult , sources of non-ferrous ores are particularly scarce and these , and the smelting sites , were often far removed from where the majority of the artefacts were eventually used . |
| 27 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 28 | Since the majority of the women were full-time housewives , some self-categorization as housewives can , in any case , be predicted . |
| 29 | Property centre chairman George Clark said : ‘ The majority of the properties being sold are priced at £80,000 or less , in other words , appealing most to the first or second-time buyer . |
| 30 | ‘ The majority of the dwellings are old and decaying . |