Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 2 | Prices start at around £80 per person per day double occupancy , for the all inclusive package — inclusive accommodation , breakfast , lunch , afternoon tea and dinner , open bar , house wines , and local entertainment . |
| 3 | A letter from MDS Transmodal to a Finnish company , also passed to The Scotsman confirms ‘ we are currently working with Scottish Enterprise … to assess the commercial potential for the former naval dockyard at Rosyth , on the Forth . ’ |
| 4 | The same was noticed by the senior civil servants themselves , who , almost without exception , had a high regard for the former assistant principal in the Ministry of Civil Aviation . |
| 5 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 6 | Britain is to provide £2M for urgently required medical supplies for the former Soviet Union . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the programme of aid and assistance for the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman will know from our debate this morning that the United Kingdom is fully ready to play its part in providing the financial assistance , on a multilateral basis , which is likely to be necessary to support an IMF programme — such as the stabilisation fund or some other suitable instrument — for the former Soviet Union , and especially for Russia . |
| 9 | He told the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) afterwards that the former Soviet states wanted to implement the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) on troop reductions , and now had to decide how to apportion their shares of troop numbers under the treaty 's overall ceiling for the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | It appeared that the " Paris Club " of Western creditor governments had softened its insistence that Ukraine should assume collective responsibility for the former Soviet Union 's foreign debt , following a meeting between Vitold Fokin , the Ukraine Prime Minister , and Jean-Claude Trichet , the Paris Club president , on March 3 . |
| 11 | In our bilateral aid the main need was for carefully targeted and flexible assistance in the form of advice , skills and training and our response in this area for our bilateral aid was the creation of the know how fund for the former Soviet Union and for central and Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | It then raised the possibility that ‘ there is indeed a faction within MI5 which is gunning for the former prime minister ( and by implication the whole Labour leadership ) . ’ |
| 13 | But one of the best stories in the Kelly collection concerns how he disrupted a social weekend in Northern Ireland for the former Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 14 | Its chieftain is Abdul Rashid Dostam , who ran the army for the former communist president , Muhammad Najibullah . |
| 15 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 16 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 17 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 18 | Last night a nationwide alert was issued for the former foreign embassy bodyguard , who has Merseyside connections , and the public was warned not to approach him under any circumstances . |
| 19 | In West Berlin the huge crowd at the Rathaus , some of whom had crossed from the East to listen to the speeches , reserved their greatest enthusiasm for the former Social Democrat leader , Chancellor and Mayor of West Berlin , Mr Willy Brandt , who told them , to wild cheers : ‘ Berlin will live and the Berlin Wall will come down . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |
| 21 | ASUNCION ( Efe ) — Paraguayan judges signed an extradition request for the former French information minister , Jacques Soustelle , accused of swindling £62.5m from the state-owned cement industry during the regime of the former dictator , Alfredo Stroessner . |
| 22 | ‘ Our president informed a leading UEFA official straight away on Thursday morning at a memorial service for the former German soccer federation president , ’ the source said . |
| 23 | He opened his eyes and prepared to correct his daughter for the several hundredth occasion in their lives together . |
| 24 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |
| 25 | In this respect the ‘ condition ’ calls for the same personal discipline as a celibate single life . |
| 26 | This leads to hysteresis , with two possible electron states for the same applied voltage , enabling the memory states to be defined . |
| 27 | First — The Spanish Government and Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza will create a new Private Cultural Foundation under Spanish law , domiciled in Madrid , to which the Spanish Government will provide rent-free ( for the same parallel term of years as the loan mentioned in Clause Three below ) the use of the Villahermosa Palace and which will be endowed by the Spanish Government with sufficient capital for the refurbishment of the Palace and to provide all necessary financial resources to ensure the independence of the Foundation and to ensure that it is able to meet all its artistic and curatorial commitments . |
| 28 | By and large , and allowing for spoiling operations at key points in the evening , programmes are arranged within time-slots to avoid outright competition for the same demographic group or taste constituency . |
| 29 | It revealed frequencies of abnormal fetal presentation by older women ( 40–44 ) and younger ones ( 25–29 ) to be 31 and 18 per cent , respectively , and postpartum haemorrhage due to uterine inertia of 6.2 and 2.7 for the same two age groups . |
| 30 | Yet the cases which fail to set up trusts all fail for the same good reason : because they do not make clear an intention on the part of the settlor that a trustee should be legally obliged to a beneficiary . |