Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some committee , board and panel chairmen acquired a reputation for being especially rigorous , and in some cases angry responses from institutions focussed on the alleged biases or eccentricities of panel members as much as on the nature of the judgments made about the courses .
2 Among the activities planned for the evening are continuous guided tours of the exhibition Dynasty : The Royal House of Stewart , an introduction to the Scottish Photography Archive with with a chance to view the current display , and an historic overview of the Queen Street building given by .
3 A " customer " is a person with or for whom a firm carries on , or merely intends to carry on , " regulated business " or other business carried on in connection with that regulated business ; the reference to " other business " does not make someone a customer if he would not otherwise be but seems merely to extend the scope of the activities covered by the COB Rules .
4 So the idea of the student as an embryonic researcher turns out to be a metaphor referring , at its best , to just some of the activities employed by the student .
5 Good marketing should permeate all the activities undertaken within the school .
6 The proportion allocated , it says , reflects an assessment of the activities undertaken by the manager in pursuit of the company 's investment objectives .
7 Many of the activities undertaken by the partnership can be provided by a school without using this form of organisation .
8 Under the FSA , investment business means the business of engaging in one or more of the activities specified in the Act in relation to the investments specified in the Act , as long as these activities are not excluded .
9 Two types of behaviour , diet and exercise , dominated the activities proposed as the health promoting behaviour in which older people participated in ( Table 6.6 ) .
10 Having identified the activities associated with the sub-systems , it was then possible to start considering what information was relevant to the performance of each activity .
11 They do no more than show that the legislature has not shrunk , where it has seemed appropriate , from interfering in a greater or lesser degree with the immunities grouped under the title of the right to silence .
12 One of the defences possessed by the manufacturer against the retailer determining the nature of supply is the accurate positioning of products and brands , derived from effective market research , against target market segments known to be an important constituent of the retailer 's customer profile .
13 According to Wegener , the sial masses of the continents shifted on the earth 's actual mantle , the sima foundation .
14 On the other hand he suggested that no proof had been brought forward that the forms proposed by the Puritans were founded on any ordinance of Christ .
15 Armed with computers , the procurement department did its job much faster , reports Larry Skinner , the company 's chief of re-engineering , but it actually took longer for anyone in TI to purchase supplies because filling out all the forms demanded by the procurement department had become so complicated .
16 THE essays included in the collection Women , Art and Power were written over a twenty-year period .
17 These individuals , known as locals , are vital for the liquidity of the markets in the contracts traded in the pits .
18 British hydrologist Ted Hollis , of University College London — one of the experts proposed by the Ramsar Bureau for the new study — says the amount of water flowing in the river is 40 per cent less than the Greek government claims and that the volume reaching the irrigated areas will be consequently reduced .
19 It is appropriate here to recall the attitudes expressed by the non-respondents to the survey .
20 Before exploring some of the attitudes held towards the issue of assessment by the arts teachers interviewed , it might help to look at the philosophies being advanced by them towards the teaching of their respective specialisms .
21 Her mother waited while she pushed her way through the crowds jammed round the booths .
22 Prayer meetings in the great barn-like churches of East Berlin , Dresden , Leipzig and other cities have been the focus of protest , drawing many thousands of people until no more could squeeze in and the crowds spilled into the streets .
23 From the crowds wet on the November sidewalk ,
24 The records tell us a little about the labourers employed by the lords .
25 Between 1541 and 1570 the labourers recorded in the Myddle parish register formed only 7·1 per cent of adult males , but during the next thirty years the proportion rose to 23·4 per cent .
26 The rituals performed by the king-priest , particularly at the New Year Festival , were regarded as the repetitions of divine actions and were meant to correspond exactly in time as well as in character with the rituals on high .
27 Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating .
28 The tax obligation of each village was measured in terms of koku , as were the values of the stipends distributed by the daimyo to his followers .
29 We went out to take the air in the inner bailey and stood fascinated as four ostlers struggled with the ropes tied to the bridle of a splendid , black war horse .
30 The icons displayed on the screen can be used to move your characters around the world or invoke actions such as casting a spell .
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