Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 2 | Section references below are to the Companies Act 1985 unless otherwise indicated . |
| 3 | If you prefer that the algorithm should not invent new weights , but only select existing weights from the parent strings , then the crossover points marked ’ x ’ may only be at the ends of 8-bit sequences . |
| 4 | The evidence from the case studies suggests that while change will occur it will only be at the margins , but this may be enough to achieve significant behavioural change in service providers . |
| 5 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 6 | Other parties not completely in agreement with the proposals include the Highland Regional Council , which would lose some control in the designated areas , and the Scottish National Party , which feels that parks would not necessarily be in the interests of either the nation or the environment . |
| 7 | The older , declining industries were nationalized , the Beveridge plans enacted , a National Health Service started and full employment maintained , the emphasis all being on the results of these policies , on their effects on people 's lives . |
| 8 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 9 | They were sturdy beggars , Hugh told them , a sort of people rarely found in the forest , vermin whom the verderers would have been well able to control without an expedition had it not been for the outlaws . |
| 10 | ‘ If it had not been for the difficulties and bruises caused by the recession , I have no doubt there would be an increased majority for the Conservative Party , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 12 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock 's election interviews were indescribably awful and had it not been for the polls one would have assumed that they had dished Labour 's chances irrecoverably . |
| 14 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 15 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 16 | Its reaching out to the people who 've not been through the processes that we 've been through and are still attached to ideas that are in essence racist , imperialist , sexist , heterosexist , and how we , nevertheless , draw those people into activity . |
| 17 | THE couch cavorted upon by Joanne Whalley-Kilmer in her portrayal of Christine Keeler in the film Scandal and the pulpit used by Peter Sellers in the film Heavens Above are among the items to be sold in an auction of stock from the country 's largest supplier of theatrical and television props . |
| 18 | When we 'd finished I asked if we could wash up and run the errands but she said she 'd already been to the shops with her brother . |
| 19 | British air travel before the war had largely been in the hands of two companies , British Airways for European services and Imperial Airways for services further afield . |
| 20 | Well , I 've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad ! |
| 21 | However , Parke may soon be at the heels of Del Harris , the 20-year-old England No. 1 who had to battle hard for the second day in succession . |
| 22 | They left Alice with a little pile of pamphlets and leaflets , and , hearing that hot water would soon be among the amenities of this house , Reggie remarked that they must have a talk about finance . |
| 23 | Two more records , an LP from the avant garde group Psychic TV and a sound-effects disc from CBS , should soon be in the shops . |
| 24 | Guarantee costs of these should normally be at the vendors ' expense . |
| 25 | Therefore , it follows logically that it will normally be in the interests of the TNCs to try to create the market for their standard products in new locations irrespective of the perceived social needs of the indigenous populations , as Levitt ( 1983 ) persuasively argues . |
| 26 | There was a realisation that the mantle of radicalism had been seized from the Liberal Party and that the main political division of the twentieth century would not be between the Tories and the Liberals but between Labour and anti-Labour . |
| 27 | As later events were to show , the Valois monarchy had its weaknesses and the successful assertion of Edward 's claim might not be beyond the bounds of possibility . |
| 28 | " Payment in " shall not be mentioned in the pleadings and the notice must not be with the pleadings or documents for the use of the court at the trial or arbitration until after its decision , except in the case of a defence of tender , or the filing of a plea under the Libel Acts ( Ord 11 , r 7 ) . |
| 29 | I find it sad that Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie , Britain 's number one tennis players , will not be at the Olympics |
| 30 | Piotr Skubiszewski 's forthcoming contribution to the series ‘ Storia Universale dell'Arte ’ , the volumes on Western civilisation edited by Enrico Castelnuovo , will not be on the shelves until 1993 . |