Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Growing publicity over ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 32 | Growing publicity over the subject of Durham Ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 33 | Measures of availability and response times at the Bank 's main frame computer are also taken each month . |
| 34 | Ken Threlfall , general manager of the County Durham ambulance service , responding to concerns voiced by Teesdale district councillor Phil Hughes , said response times in the dale bettered the national requirement . |
| 35 | The scheme was criticized by Second Division Clubs on the grounds that they had to share the onus equally with the better-off . |
| 36 | They reached the third round in four consecutive years , a feat equalled by very few lower division clubs at the time . |
| 37 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 38 | Once MAS have identified a potentially interested party , it would , with your approval , reveal your identity and arrange an initial meeting between senior members of your own organisation and the majority shareholders of the possible target . |
| 39 | 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down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 40 | The majority shareholders at the same time expressed strong criticism of the Bank of England and other regulators over their handling of the affair . |
| 41 | A settlement was initialled on Feb. 20 by the majority shareholders in the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ; 38737 ) and by the bank 's liquidators . |
| 42 | The result is that the shareholders in the target company become the majority shareholders in the acquiring company . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 46 | Thank you for the sending copies of the above planning applications . |
| 47 | 4.18 All admission policies in the Department 's residential and day care units should be reviewed to ensure that they explicitly include an assessment of the potential risk of violence from the client/and or their family . |
| 48 | An International Centre for Educational Evaluation has been established in Ibadan and , though currently very understaffed , has made a useful start in mounting long training courses in evaluation and in undertaking evaluation of curriculum projects at the request of their organisers ( among which are the Namutamba and Ife projects described earlier in the chapter ) . |
| 49 | In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 50 | Outside , a sizeable iron drive-wheel projects through the front wall . |
| 51 | They were also given the job of erecting direction signs to the nearest lavatory in corridors and at the exits to lecture rooms . |
| 52 | Part ( 3 ) was introduced by the County Court ( Amendment No 2 ) Rules 1991 , which has also abolished the restrictions on the venue in hire-purchase and sale of goods instalment contracts in the case of any action commenced after 1 July 1991 . |
| 53 | User reactions to the tape-slide medium were very positive . |
| 54 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 55 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 56 | Make sure you have contingency plans for the photographer in case of bad weather and discuss these with your photographer . |
| 57 | Their chaotic flight on 22 December revealed their complete lack of serious contingency plans for the eventuality of a coup , let alone a popular revolution . |
| 58 | The advertising vice-president who stays late every night working on next week 's layouts but who also has to begin making contingency plans for the expected launch of two new local advertising media campaigns three years hence has a responsibility time span of three years . |
| 59 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 60 | It 's prompted council officers in Oxfordshire to put their contingency plans to the test . |