Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within fifteen minutes everyone in the cast — apart from me — was talking about this . |
| 2 | They tell readers nothing about the arguments in favour of the extension of VAT . |
| 3 | True , Kant thinks that if morality is ultimately valid it is because we have somehow settled on these imperatives ourselves at the noumenal level , but to this — apart from the dubiousness of the metaphysics — it is likely to be objected that if the imperatives spring from myself it is quite proper for me to rescind them when convenient . |
| 4 | The US Department of Defence on Jan. 14 issued guidelines which on the whole reflected the policies of allied governments . |
| 5 | quick look at the map , the River Ouse conveniently chops Selby district in roughly half , and that there might well be considerations which for the sake of was not okay . |
| 6 | First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him . |
| 7 | Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead . |
| 8 | The invaders were backed up by warships which from the mouth of the river Esk poured a crippling cannonade into the Scottish ranks . |
| 9 | They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary . |
| 10 | In the case of independent schools which for the most part are not run as independent profit making institutions and which set the fees to raise enough money to cover the cost of running the school , the test is virtually indistinguishable from a market value test . |
| 11 | BLACK VELVET Rivera S120 Stack Given that the guitar world seems to have voted with its feet and demonstrated a fondness for valves which to the average electronics engineer defies reason , where else is there left for amp designers to go … ? |
| 12 | Are these the same fans who at the start of the season boasted a five-man strike force which was going to win them the League ? |
| 13 | It peoples itself in the sunbeams . |
| 14 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 15 | Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise . |
| 16 | It 's one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated . |
| 17 | A quick photo ( well it was very pretty even if it was small ) and back into the water with a few quick words something to the effect of ’ go send me your grand-daddy ’ . |
| 18 | make a note to check any " odd ones " in other lists later match up the separate lists one against the other to make sure that each list contains a different sound . |
| 19 | The Palais always gave big prizes to dance competition winners everything from the fully fitted wardrobes of 1928 to the Mecca Gold Cup in 1940 . |
| 20 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 21 | Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape . |
| 22 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 23 | In the immediate post-war period , the main legal concern lay with local authorities which across the country were coming under Labour control . |
| 24 | Even the most well-intentioned and politically sensitive non-governmental organizations found themselves supporting projects which in the long term strengthened individuals rather than communities , unrealistically raised expectations or created unintended dependency relationships . |
| 25 | If Soviet equipment is not always of an adequate standard , Western equipment is often over-sophisticated for Soviet purposes , demanding much by way of supporting technologies which in the USSR simply do not exist . |
| 26 | Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 27 | Conceptions which in the 1960s might have precipitated a ‘ forced ’ marriage now either lead to abortion or , increasingly , to births in non-marital unions , concerning which more will be said later . |
| 28 | It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way . |
| 29 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 30 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |