Example sentences of "[noun pl] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cade founded no dynasty , but in his day he was a major operator in what R. H. Tawney [ q.v. ] called ‘ that seductive border region where business greases the wheels of politics and polite society smiles hopefully on both ’ . |
| 2 | And he removed his hat and discussed for some minutes the shortcomings of his wife Rita who had been in the land-army when they met . |
| 3 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 4 | Once again Campana saw the Germans line up ; ‘ In a few minutes the slopes of Hill 265 were covered with enemy advancing on us . |
| 5 | Er Teddy Roosevelt down at the bottom with the Rough Riders the guns at the top of the hill , the horses at the bottom of the hill you 've heard of the charge of the Light Brigade have n't you ? |
| 6 | China , which had sharply criticized Gorbachev after his resignation for having caused " political chaos , ethnic strife and economic crisis " , nevertheless on Dec. 27 recognized as independent states the members of the CIS . |
| 7 | From among these States the interests of El Salvador , Honduras and Costa Rica were more directly and intensely affected than those of other States . |
| 8 | Bright flames the orbs of day |
| 9 | Even in what appear to be straightforward motor skills the changes in learning are associated with greater selectivity and more economical use of the evidence needed to guide performance . |
| 10 | When the primary " spiritual " disease is treated through the Anonymous Fellowships the consequences of addictive disease gradually resolve . |
| 11 | It is possible that there will be more than one round of interviews , but this simply introduces the repetition of some of the above activities The verdicts of interviewing panels must be recorded and where necessary reconciled with the preferences of applicants Offers of employment must be sent out including contracts Once these ( or alternatives ) have been accepted , rejection letters will be sent out . |
| 12 | At low frequencies the impedances of the series arms are high on account of series capacitance while the impedances of the parallel arms are low on account of parallel inductance . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman touches on an important matter , but he misrepresents the views of the Government and he misrepresents what I said . |
| 14 | Every piece of their household effects had been sold to buy bread , and in many cases the tiles of the roofs had shared the same fate … |
| 15 | The reasoning of the courts in denying employee status to agency workers has been criticised by some academic lawyers as a failure to accept the reality of their objective situation.2 Equally important is the fact that in some cases the operations of " agencies " and " works contractors " are virtually identical . |
| 16 | ‘ In these cases the interests of justice may demand special requirements such as , for example , that the preparation and presentation of the case be in separate and independent hands ’ . |
| 17 | In some cases the effects of the blockage can be so severe that the heart stops beating altogether and this is called a cardiac arrest . |
| 18 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 19 | In two cases the relatives of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn . |
| 20 | Of course , these two approaches are not clear-cut in practice ; in many cases the hypotheses of interest will have themselves been generated by inductive mapping . |
| 21 | In a few cases the obligations of the local authorities will be quite clear . |
| 22 | However , in some cases the members of the target 's group may be the most important clients of the target and both the vendor and Newco will be keen to continue this relationship . |
| 23 | Foresterships of fee might be inherited by women : in such cases the duties of the office were usually performed by their guardians , husbands or sons . |
| 24 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 25 | In many cases the answers to that question would be difficult to unravel , and if challenged most people probably would say that they were doing both . |
| 26 | In civil cases the rights of appeal are not ungenerous , though the overall system of civil appeals has been described as a ‘ hotchpotch ’ needing rationalization ( Woolf , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | The water requirements for the textile industry vary with tie use to which the water is to be put , and in some cases the processes within a works will demand different water qualities . |
| 28 | In most cases the officials of the unions involved and the police arrange matters amicably , but there are notorious cases where feelings of injustice and unfairness run so high that violence is in attendance . |
| 29 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 30 | In both cases the contents of the drawers had been tipped out . |