Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
| 2 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
| 3 | Now I felt in a position to explore the fate of this culture , and thereby the roots of the contemporary political landscape . |
| 4 | Rarely the valves of the heart can be involved . |
| 5 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 6 | ‘ But thankfully the days of the rack and burning at the stake are gone , even in Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | Purchasers have a responsibility to ensure that research is commissioned to evaluate properly the effects of the NHS changes . |
| 8 | It is necessary to handle properly the relations between the central and the local authorities . ’ |
| 9 | So I think your point is in effect met , but we have to observe very properly the requirements of the law . |
| 10 | All that would reinforce the particular policy to which my hon. Friend referred and would damage tremendously the prospects of the British people and destroy countless jobs . |
| 11 | The clinching argument that Mr Dixon made about informing his father of his literary success was that probably Hank would need help in investing discreetly the earnings of the book , and it was well known that Mr Stych was an astute businessman . |
| 12 | Presumably the builders of the Channel Tunnel are aware of this ? |
| 13 | The court may then direct that these records or documents be brought to the attention of other persons including presumably the parties to the proceedings and any experts they intend to instruct . |
| 14 | ‘ Presumably the children of the poor are n't either . |
| 15 | Peters ' work concerns mostly the tribes of the Saadi confederation ( Barassa , Magharba ) , rather than the Zuwaya ; but no evidence supports an argument that Zuwaya women were less important and active in this regard than women of other tribes . |
| 16 | Slowly the events of the previous evening re-assembled themselves . |
| 17 | That 's what 's shameful in our society and it 's only the Labour Party in unison with our movement that can right the wrongs of the past fourteen years . |
| 18 | Eventually the scientists at the National Radiological Protection Board hope to set up a network of solar radiation monitors across Britain and Europe . |
| 19 | For once , both sides want to win over waverers ; and if Labour scraps the block vote , there is a fair chance that eventually the merits of the arguments will determine the policy Labour chooses . |
| 20 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 21 | Eventually the boulders in the road became too large to dodge . |
| 22 | Eventually the plains of the eastern Ukraine are reached , and the city of Kharkov . |
| 23 | Eventually the men at the long table sat back in a happy state of having eaten and drunk as much as they could possibly hold . |
| 24 | The tenant 's business was rendered uneconomic and eventually the terms of the lease were renegotiated at a cost of £122,220 to the tenant . |
| 25 | To ‘ love the motherland ’ was to embrace wholeheartedly the doctrines of the leadership , even if they were slightly contradictory . |
| 26 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 27 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 28 | Continuing this political enquiry we should note the belief that was once expressed with some confidence that as workers became more affluent they would take on the values of the middle classes in their society . |
| 29 | It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations . |
| 30 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |