Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement will provide protection for the salmon while they are out at sea before they return to the rivers to breed . |
| 2 | In recognition of the fact that the rabbit is so inoffensive and far from able to defend itself , nature has applied the customary protection for the species . |
| 3 | The " offer of amends " would be a valuable protection for the media in cases of unintentional defamation , were it not encumbered by what the Faulks Committee described as " expensive rigmarole " — a procedure which requires the swearing of a detailed affidavit about how the confusion arose , which must be served at the same time as the offer of amends . |
| 4 | It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’ |
| 6 | Moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side , erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub- system will be er very complex , very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft , erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar , the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment . |
| 7 | The Bradford and Northern Housing Association will receive a 100 per cent grant for the £370 , unit development at Abbeyfield in Yarm . |
| 8 | Team nursing in the ward provides a preparation for the staff nurse 's role , which otherwise may be neglected in nurse training . |
| 9 | Ilay did offer to make good Sir James Campbell 's financial loss , but the latter had still not obtained a settlement for the £140 forfeited to Moses Buchanan even in 1739 . |
| 10 | Its outcome is still a division between the sheep and the goats . |
| 11 | — ‘ Any idea what the squadron 's doing now ? ’ ) but from that moment there was a clear cut division between the sheep and the goats . |
| 12 | The division between the headquarters and the College responsibilities is shown as occurring between sub-systems 4.0 and 5.0 in the system model . |
| 13 | While employment in social service jobs or social development programmes can be an important step toward greater economic well-being for many , failure to provide realistic opportunities to progress beyond low-level jobs falls short of a full commitment to social , economic and political opportunity for the people involved . |
| 14 | This not only unfairly impedes opportunity for the people concerned . |
| 15 | The ‘ City of Culture ’ accolade will perhaps be an opportunity for the people of Dublin to howl in protest at what the Dublin Corporation and the Irish government have done to the city . |
| 16 | The government believes that the Convention offers an opportunity for the people of Northern Ireland to contribute directly and in their own way to the establishing of a joint and stable society in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | This kind of approach can be very useful since it provides an opportunity for the media to ask questions and get direct answers on the spot , without having to spend valuable time away from the office . |
| 18 | Friends watched in horror as the 15ft monster played with the body for more than 15 minutes near Brisbane . |
| 19 | The Labour councillors voted to overturn the officers ' recommendation and give permission for the works to be demolished . |
| 20 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 21 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 22 | The contract for the £4.5m. worth of repairs is due to be given out this month and be completed by the winter of 1993/4 . |
| 23 | The purchaser , more often than not , is a University or institutional library which has not forgotten the value of books that previous generations have preserved — in this case for the people of England , though the libraries that end up owning the books are usually abroad . |
| 24 | The case for the people 's front was argued out in existing organizations — local Peace Councils or Aid for Spain Committees , trade unions , the Co-operative Party , the LNU . |
| 25 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 26 | Finally , on Saturday 23 June , the Wordsworths left Alfoxden , and went for the last time down the wooded lane through the deer park , past the beech trees and hollies where , on a day in March , they had sheltered from a hail storm , past Christopher Tricky 's hovel near the dog pound , and past the ‘ loud Waterfall ’ , whose sound would always echo in their memories . |
| 27 | As these allocations fell short of what had been proposed , the USA filed a ‘ reservation ’ , expressing the view that the conference had failed to make adequate provision for the h.f. needs of the broadcasting service , particularly below 10MHz and reserving the right of the US ‘ to take the necessary steps to meet the h.f. needs of its broadcasting service . ’ |
| 28 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 29 | In his report on the seminar , François Bouneau of the French Protestant Radio Service called for ‘ a critical celebration that could open avenues of hope for the people of Latin America as well as helping us to reconsider our relationship with Third World nations . ’ |
| 30 | ’ I 've got great sympathy for the people of Upton because unless they understand the situation , then I can see why they 're fearful . |