Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clouds like brassy cauliflowers form over the steel-blue blades of the distant mountain range that borders the plain . |
| 2 | Her award was handed over to Suzanne Peck , of Barkers Trident Communications , the agency that designs the publication . |
| 3 | On this page TODAY tracks how much of this money goes to the distributor and the ‘ third party publisher ’ — the independent company that designs the game . |
| 4 | Most seem to have developed between 1130 and 1200 , but on some estates the process must have been complete by 1183 when the Bolden Book was compiled . |
| 5 | In Britain , the role of fragmented political authority in muddying the formation of objectives is illustrated by conflicts within the present Conservative government over BR 's electrification plans , with close advisers of the Prime Minister , and according to some accounts the Treasury , undermining the efforts of the Department of Transport to secure cabinet approval . |
| 6 | System costing : With some products the cost of dispensers , applicators or other ancillaries can be a significant part of the total cost . |
| 7 | In some groups the use of geometric shapes is predetermined by the coarseness of the weave , but in others it reflects a conscious desire to adhere to traditional forms . |
| 8 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 9 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 10 | This pre-tensions the seat belts and pulls the steering column away from the driver in the event of a frontal impact . |
| 11 | And some times the ship would be come in quite close to us and could n't hear anything . |
| 12 | In rural areas where there are few cinemas the video centres are especially popular . |
| 13 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 14 | In , the typical overhead of indexes and related files leads to a final size of about two and a half times the size of the corresponding serial file . |
| 15 | artwork one and a half times the size which it will be reproduced . |
| 16 | The swollen testis was two and a half times the size of the normal one and very hard . |
| 17 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 18 | This year 's spending of £6.5 million is four and a half times the level of two years ago . |
| 19 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 20 | It is going to be nine and a half times the footprint of Hambleton three and a half times the footprint of Brayton Bath it will tower in its mass beside them and it is totally unreasonable and wrong for anybody to describe it as merely of local concern . |
| 21 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 22 | Suicides by vets are more than three and a half times the average for all groups , says the latest issue of Population Trends from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 23 | Boots ( retail division ) may consider giving employees moving from low-cost to high-cost areas a loan of up to a maximum of one and a half times the employee 's expected first year 's gross salary . |
| 24 | Yes , it used to be two and a half times the wage and in the long run rather than mess about taking the house off them |
| 25 | This tape will achieve a satisfactory curtain fullness with a minimum of one and a half times the track length using a thick fabric , but double fullness is preferable , particularly with lightweight fabrics . |
| 26 | It needs fabric fullness of two and a quarter to two and a half times the track length , depending on the thickness of the fabric . |
| 27 | A detachable lining which can be removed and washed separately need not use the same fullness as the outer curtain ; one and a half times the track length can be sufficient . |
| 28 | Including these tremendously long towels which are er one and a half times the length of the table because they have to go over everybody 's lap as a napkin kind of communal napkin . |
| 29 | Merseyside quiet with small codling , whiting and a few dabs the mainstay . |
| 30 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |