Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That framework shapes the broad conditions in which they operate and more specifically lays down both what is expected of them and under what circumstances and with what resources they go about achieving those goals . |
| 2 | Pupil also involved in creating small factual and/or fiction databases the same information retrieval program ( KWIRS ) as is used it resources databases . |
| 3 | In state primary schools the pupil-teacher ratio went down by 7.5 per cent and in state secondary schools there was a fall of 9.5 per cent , but in the same ten year period the pupil-teacher ratio in independent schools came down by 17.7 per cent . |
| 4 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 5 | Richey designs the next Manics ' sleeve |
| 6 | Research shows that , while across the majority of industry sectors the average telecommunications content of any given systems integration project is approximately 57% , the proportion in financial sector deals is more likely to be about 71% . |
| 7 | Possibly goods may have been smuggled out without paying duty , although this last should not be exaggerated , because there is no reason to believe that the level of smuggling varied markedly from one period to another , and because with bulk commodities the possible gains were small and the risk of penalties was high ( 66 , pp.21–5 ) . |
| 8 | In this Special Reference Feature a chronology outlines the key events leading to unification and cross refers to articles in the monthly News Digest section where developments have been given extensive coverage . |
| 9 | However , it is clear that two identical firms with identical operations and cash flows should have identical values , whatever accounting conventions the two firms use . |
| 10 | This chapter outlines the Soviet characterisation of Great Power military bases and facilities on foreign territories and analyses Soviet efforts to implement a strategy of ‘ base denial ’ . |
| 11 | This chapter outlines the main changes which are taking place in the spatial distribution of the British population and examines the migration patterns which form the principal mechanism behind these trends . |
| 12 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 13 | Is your own information on the tide and wind predictions the same as the local sailors ' interpretation ? |
| 14 | In remote sensing studies the bidirectional reflectance of a non- Lambertian vegetation canopy is measured . |
| 15 | This research studies the international economic dimensions of military expenditures and arms transfers . |
| 16 | At low wind velocities the jerky movement of these grains may be observed , but as the wind velocity increases this appears to change into a steady forward creep of the surface grains . |
| 17 | In the ideal golfing conditions the first eight professionals had beaten par . |
| 18 | Dear me I think Daryll was hoping the roof things the best they can do was Saturday morning . |
| 19 | Furthermore , with worsening glucose abnormalities the neonatal morbidity in terms of hypoglycaemia and polycythaemia was increased . |
| 20 | In the early days there was no cure and it killed AIDS patients the first time they got it . |
| 21 | Down at Chittagong docks , they still use DWEC rolling stock for freight and as workers ' sleeping quarters the earliest plaque is 1878 . |
| 22 | After mild weather depressed demand in 1988-89 for car batteries the principal source of lead consumption , prices rose steadily through 1989 to reach record levels of £745 a tonne in March 1990 . |
| 23 | Mr Reynolds 's government lost the motion by 88 votes to 77 after a walkout by coalition partners the Progressive Democrats . |
| 24 | In the Sejm elections contests for 65 per cent of the seats were restricted to candidates from the then ruling Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP ) , and from its traditional coalition partners the United Peasants ' Party ( ZSL ) and the Democratic Party ( SD ) or from three lay Roman Catholic organizations ; the remaining 35 per cent were contested by candidates from opposition or independent groups , and were all won by the Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ( the electoral platform of the recently relegalized Solidarity trade union ) . |
| 25 | I think in , in shorthand terms the best thing to do is to regard the UCCA form as a mirror , and to look at it when it 's completed and say , ‘ This is the picture of me . ’ |
| 26 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 27 | Not for Opposition Members the 14 per cent . |
| 28 | When the television marketers object , ITN can point to its News at Ten slot ; its 10.15 advertising break commands the highest rates of the day — £50,000 for a 30-second ad . |
| 29 | No wonder he had three bloody blood tests the other day then . |
| 30 | I reported the loss to Lower Hutt police the next day , certain that it would be handed in ; but it never was . |