Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It would be a great help to all our officers in planning future strategies ( and probably of considerable interest to you ) if you could enlist the help of your class members to complete the enclosed survey ( either by photocopying the form and filling in one each or by a show of hands and entering the total numbers ) Please let Pat Palmer have the results at or before the Reunion on 19th November .
2 Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version .
3 He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ .
4 Contrary to your account , there has never been a disagreement between the National Radiological Protection Board and the Ministry of Defence about this or about the general form of possible surveys .
5 If things had happened differently he , Lewis , would be living in a house like this or in a flat in central London with a cottage in the country as well .
6 The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight .
7 Nor will a network of single-purpose bodies find it easy to co-ordinate services either with one another or with the services of the districts or boroughs .
8 Furthermore , she has to turn the eggs regularly to prevent the membranes within them from adhering to one another or to the shell .
9 Most authorities lacked such a committee before this except in a shadow , non-statutory form within the majority party caucus .
10 It would be reasonable to expect from this that over a few years , our APR disclosure regulations broadly similar to the US Truth in Lending Law — will raise people 's knowledge of APRs well above the present level , and confirm them in their belief that disclosure of APRs is important .
11 It follows from this that in a recognition test subjects will find it extremely difficult to distinguish one of the early sentences in a passage from similar sentences which mean the same .
12 We can see from this that in the technical sense most large and many small organisations can be described as bureaucracies .
13 It will be apparent from this that in the event of LCH 's liquidation the clearing members would rank not as members but as creditors or debtors .
14 The great majority of its members were more attracted to this than to the abuse from the Communists or to the dissensions of the ILP .
15 ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’
16 The anatomy is also more strongly stressed in this than in the earlier statue , perhaps to tell against reflections in the shiny metal ; and this is something that becomes even more marked in succeeding generations .
17 Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts :
18 True , they have D-marks , though their pay is less than half that in the west , and in principle full rights under the constitution .
19 It was because the moment of decision was approaching that they were up here on the hill of Dumyat , six miles from Thorfinn 's muster-point at Dunblane , and half that from the crag on the Forth beside which , on one side or another , Thorfinn would take his stand against any Northumbrian advance out of Lothian .
20 Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species .
21 Like this and with a flap
22 Paddy was well aware of this and with an imperceptible shake of his head , continued sardonically —
23 I live close to the Union Canal and use its towpath for cycling , so my comments will relate to this and to the neighbouring Forth-Clyde Canal .
24 ( 6 ) If over 49 per cent of the voting rights could be obtained , the offer document must contain specific and prominent reference to this and to the fact that if the offer succeeds the offeror will be free , subject to Rule 36.3 ( which prohibits purchases during a period of 12 months after the end of the offer period ) , to acquire further shares without incurring an obligation to make a mandatory offer ( Rule 36.6 ) .
25 This will be fine so long as I obey the ‘ point cam moving rule ’ while doing this and for every move thereafter .
26 The dominance of the agro-export business and the patterns of land ownership are primarily to blame for this and for the abandonment of traditional , more ecologically sound , forms of cultivation and pest control .
27 What I want to , for you to do , is to pass this and for the C E C to look at providing some education specifically to the administration and the running of branches .
28 Research has invariably failed to recognize this and as a consequence failed to approach its task in an explicitly neutral and scientific way , i.e. to account for the nature and incidence of particular forms of adult/child interactions and their consequences .
29 They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand .
30 Ignoring the bargaining strengths of both parties , there is no clear reason why a vendor should be willing to agree to this and as a matter of practice should establish the order of priority of satisfaction of liabilities within the terms and conditions of the sale agreement .
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