Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 2 | Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel . |
| 3 | Do you think do you think about the trees the trees should stay there or what ? |
| 4 | Whilst we recommend a retail price for all sizes as with all similar product on the market it will be up to the vendor to adjust for the prices the margins that they require . |
| 5 | The verderers were enabled , in return for an annual payment of £1 , to secure for the commoners the right to turn out their animals during these periods from year to year . |
| 6 | The case only confined for the policemen the inequities of the legal system : justice depends on who the prisoner gets . |
| 7 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 8 | When these are included with the trainees the ratio becomes 1 consultant to 1.08 assistants . |
| 9 | Particularly memorable too are the retired ministers who themselves carried into the cellars the cherished contents of their former manse libraries . |
| 10 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 11 | He , all of them , delighted in the sounds the words made … |
| 12 | After the seventh defendant had resigned from the plaintiffs the three refined the business plan and set up the fourth defendant and the fifth defendant companies . |
| 13 | As the waves crashed round the hilltops the wizards ' palaces broke free and floated on the surface of the waves . |
| 14 | Cameron also designed ( 1782–5 ) the palace of Pavlovsk for the Grand Duke Paul , where he built in the grounds the first Greek Revival building in Russia , the Temple of Friendship . |
| 15 | Within this proposed intervention , that will give the works of art contained in the gardens the status of museum objects , may lie very positive elements , provided Disneyland is firmly held at bay . |
| 16 | The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year . |
| 17 | The procedure is to obtain from the tables the PV values of both outlays and proceeds for each year . |
| 18 | And it adds to the sanctions the Council may take — positioning of judgements in offending papers ; a privacy hot line ; and , more controversially , hauling in proprietors to discipline editors . |
| 19 | And it adds to the sanctions the Council may take — positioning of judgements in offending papers ; a privacy hot line ; and , more controversially , hauling in proprietors to discipline editors . |
| 20 | LAST Tuesday I mused on the problems the Queen was facing with her family . |
| 21 | If they should fall down the steps the fence will stop them going onto the road . |
| 22 | Using the procedures in this way has the dual effect of preparing the case as precisely as possible for the trial judge and of encouraging a settlement by revealing to the parties the exact nature of their dispute . |
| 23 | This is a more objective discussion than progress monitoring and should concentrate on the problems the surveyor is encountering in his own contribution rather than the inherent problems of a particular job . |
| 24 | When work starts on the offices the car park will be the first area completed to minimise disruption to drivers who regularly use the car park . |
| 25 | Batty certainly ca n't be excused on the grounds the manager did n't give him a ‘ fair crack of the whip ’ can he ? |
| 26 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 27 | Given the interests of the early social surveyors in investigating whole populations we must include among the forerunners the censuses of pre-modern times . |
| 28 | It was all very well for countries where uniforms were fashionable — as they certainly were not in Britain and the United States — to encourage among the labourers the soldierly virtues , not the least of which was to be poorly paid . |
| 29 | In the final part of our series on the work of the RSPCA , Liz Hannam looks at the difficulties the society face when they try to take a cruelty case to court . |
| 30 | In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people . |