Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high proportion of us die not at home , but in hospitals , clinics and special institutions for the terminally ill . |
| 2 | Up to the creation of the National Health Service in 1946 responsibility for the mentally ill and subnormal was carried largely by the local authorities , which ran hospitals and institutions for the mentally ill , and organized some care and supervision in the community for the mentally subnormal . |
| 3 | His other projects include the establishment of trauma centres around the country , more institutions for the mentally ill , centres for the crippled and more orphanages . |
| 4 | The government has described local government personnel as the most important resource available to the new councils and recognised the need to protect their interests . |
| 5 | The reasons for the ultimately poor response from architects probably stem from the conditions . |
| 6 | Unless there is personal identification and commitment , then there is no responsibility for making things work — one of the reasons for the generally poor attendance levels at meetings where governors present their annual report to parents is that the system is imposed on schools . |
| 7 | Turning to what has been termed the analytical approach to materials in which the reasons for the macroscopically observed behaviour are sought in molecular configurations and other aspects of microstructure , there has been a recent acceleration of research into polymer chain configurations and their modification by stress and deformation . |
| 8 | Thieblot and Haggard do not provide a systematic analysis of the reasons for the supposedly violence-prone nature of the UMW , or indeed , for the differing characteristics of the 1977 and 1981 disputes . |
| 9 | Here we review the studies on the effect of ethanol and alcoholic beverages on gastric acid secretion in humans and discuss the possible reasons for the apparently discrepant results . |
| 10 | There were , then , good reasons for the very positive side of the Stewart monarchy . |
| 11 | Does not the Prime Minister appreciate that one of the reasons for the very low morale in the Civil Service is that she has appointed so many confirmed Thatcherites to some of the best jobs ? |
| 12 | Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks . |
| 13 | First , it will be necessary to understand the reasons for the relatively higher female participation in the Scottish labour market , possibly due to demographic , industrial and price effects . |
| 14 | BRAC hoped that this first study might reveal reasons for the disappointingly low usage rates for the lobon-gur solution . |
| 15 | The agreement was described by the Financial Times of May 16 as " designed to remove any need to raise taxes during the politically sensitive phase of completing reunification " . |
| 16 | The upper garment clings almost as closely to the forms as the under , which is carved without folds while those of the upper are flat and straight , or just indicated in light diagonals across the naked-seeming legs . |
| 17 | The estate agency has identified institutions as the most likely equity source in Europe . |
| 18 | Moreover , the severity of the treatment meted out to this underclass , who have borne the brunt of the welfare changes , is in stark contrast to the benevolent attitude demonstrated by the Government in its welfare policies for the most privileged . |
| 19 | Connections had postponed running plans for the previously unbeaten Tenby until they had established the cause of his failure . |
| 20 | I hope you wrote some of them down and have started thinking very creatively towards achieving some of the short-term ones and making long-term plans for the more ambitious ones . |
| 21 | In addition , the conference plans to assign supplementary frequencies for the steadily rising demands of mobile satellite and other mobile communication services . |
| 22 | There 's a poolside bar here and lawns scattered with sunloungers for relaxing , plus tennis courts for the more energetic . |
| 23 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 24 | Many existing maps concentrate on urban areas , but the National Register of Maps for the Visually Handicapped in London ( 071–873 2599 ) is building up a library of rural maps too . |
| 25 | Central Asia is acknowledge by most authorities as the most likely birthplace of the oriental rug , and the Turkoman nomads , who have inhabited the region for millennia , are generally accepted as having inherited the oldest pile-weaving tradition still in existence . |
| 26 | As part of National Vegetarian Week , she 's created a menu which takes vegetables off the back burner and puts sauce into eating without meat . |
| 27 | But this ‘ labour market ’ has resulted in scarcities for the least desirable jobs and regions ( even despite generous wage incentives not enough people want to be coal miners in Siberia ) . |
| 28 | The pattern , that this was the way archbishops happened , was broken by the steady increase in lay headmasters during the earlier twentieth century . |
| 29 | In Staffordshire the forest of Cannock had virtually ceased to exist by the end of Elizabeth 's reign , and in Kinver Forest only Iverley Hay remained in the hands of the Crown , and even there the deer had disappeared , and the woods for the most part had been cut down . |
| 30 | It was usually taken , particularly when combined as it often was with the adjective " extraordinary " , as indicating a status superior to that of the resident : it became rapidly in many states during the later seventeenth century the most widely used of all diplomatic titles . |