Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 71000 Trust are looking forward to a number of other interesting activities during the latter half of 1992 . |
| 2 | It was probably through the patronage of John Prideaux that Calandrini came into contact with James Ussher [ q.v. ] , later archbishop of Armagh , whom he assisted in his scholarly activities during the latter 's three-year stay in London . |
| 3 | Whatever the reasons for the latter , Labour was able to fill the political vacuum created , not as an automatic or natural beneficiary , but because of the electoral advances gained from growth of the trade unions . |
| 4 | Coopers & Lybrand 's insolvency team has analysed the reasons for the many unnecessary corporate failures it has recently dealt with . |
| 5 | This leads to hysteresis , with two possible electron states for the same applied voltage , enabling the memory states to be defined . |
| 6 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
| 7 | Hooper is both a gifted photographer , and a craftsman of the written word — not necessarily common skills for a former professional parachutist with more than 3,000 jumps under his belt . |
| 8 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , Ali is chosen by most boxers as the most proto typical figure , though Bunny Johnson cites Jack Johnson and many of the newer recruits to boxing look to Sugar Ray Leonard , the quick-fisted American multiple world champion who blazed his way from an Olympic gold medal at Montreal in 1976 to an estimated 30 million dollars by the end of 1981 . |
| 10 | Abbreviations : If you regularly have to take notes about the same subject , you should find it quite easy to develop your own abbreviations which will make you able to take those notes even more quickly . |
| 11 | The downfall of Mrs Thatcher , the arrival of John Major at 10 Downing Street and the Gulf War took the spotlight away from the Group 's activities for a few months . |
| 12 | They talked about their plans for a few minutes . |
| 13 | The Essex Gliding Club 's plans for the former bomber station at Ridgewell near Clare , due to be discussed by Braintree planner on March 29 , have aroused unprecedented opposition among residents . |
| 14 | These were £712 from A. Walden for the former and £76 from C. H. Cox & Sons for the latter . |
| 15 | Evidently , different dictionaries can provide quite different definitions for the same word . |
| 16 | With quite minor additions and subtractions the actual wood substance has in all cases about the same chemical constitution and about the same density of ninety pounds per cubic foot ( that is , much the same as sugar — say 1.5 ) . |
| 17 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |
| 18 | Market demand for it has been much higher than expected and there is n't the manufacturing capacity to build both four and five-speeds for the same application . |
| 19 | Various Grand Met managers and executives now take the Institute of Chartered Secretaries ’ exams for the same reason that I did . |
| 20 | He was successful in the former , and he thought that he had laid the foundations for the latter . |
| 21 | ( Hawks wear bells for the same reason as mountain cattle — so you can hear them when you ca n't see them . ) |
| 22 | We 're gon na , we 're gon na stay on this issue of ownership and surpluses for a little time , cos it 's actually so important , but it 's not unreasonable for your pensioners to think that here was this pot of money to which one could dip into , but the only thing is the pot of money disappeared did n't it ? |
| 23 | A great deal of traffic was involved in moving ammunition and bombs for the many airfields in the vicinity . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ We 'll all be pulling up sticks about the same time , then ! |
| 25 | The politburo was also retained , rather than being replaced by a party presidium , although in keeping with the proposals for the latter body the politburo was now to include the leaders of the parties in the 15 republics . |
| 26 | The Russians learnt to adapt this system to their climate as they adapted roof and dome pitches for the same reason . |
| 27 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 28 | It is clear that we can hold partially or severely differing opinions about the same individual in different roles . |
| 29 | Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues . |
| 30 | Different foods have different calorie values for the same weight . |