Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 Two coups for arts festival The recession has not affected the calibre of the 1993 Perth festival programme , says Mary Miller
2 There is no sign of civilization , but herds of zebra and wildebeest and clumps of elephants marble the valley floor .
3 The lowered heads of oxen eye the grain
4 Thus while the EC Commission was working on its Draft Directive on products Liability the Council of Europe was preparing a Convention on the very same subject .
5 From the nexus of contracts perspective the shareholders are not owners , but simply one of the several parties who make a contract with management to provide a factor of production ( in their case , capital ) for their common benefit .
6 ON the subject of matters French the all-girl band Roulez Fillettes begin their North-East tour next Tuesday .
7 Yet by inevitably proceeding on an assumption of regularity of police action the legal process can not help making itself vulnerable to police mistakes .
8 In a couple of years time the other schools have gone past you and you suddenly find these services that you need to buy in are become very expensive and become unattainable because you 've been spending your money in other directions .
9 The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter .
10 I was standing in the wings on prompt side amid the varicosed tangle of cables webbing the black stage .
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