Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One American commentator has expressed the following view : ‘ the skewing effect of an ageing society is that the economic imbalances caused by the provision of health care for the elderly potentially threaten the welfare of younger generations and of society as a whole … the stage is set for a profound confrontation . ’ |
| 2 | Referrals to private clinics decreased among the fundholders , also contrary to expectations . |
| 3 | Made with 1.4 , 1.6 and 1.8 litre petrol engines , the Tempras are agile performers aimed at the business users ' market . |
| 4 | Most commercially exploited minerals in Britain tend to be in the older geological strata located in the more remote western and upland regions , while sand and gravel occur in coastal or valley sites or in glacial deposits , particularly in the south and east of England . |
| 5 | Far-reaching proposals published by the NRA call on the government to set legally-binding quality standards for not only rivers , estuaries and canals but lakes , groundwaters and coastal stretches . |
| 6 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 7 | The formulation of inductive generalizations ( using algebraic notation ) , or the application of rules to a new context , are more specific meanings attached to the term . |
| 8 | The associative data is extracted from the INSERT PARTS command , and the spatial data from the digitized coordinates and the inserted part 's drawing file , which is a structured set of work , spatial , engineering and technical sub-files held in the CAD data base ( this is fully explained in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 9 | If the essential educational standard or technical skills required by the job/personnel specification are not there then the candidate can be quickly rejected . |
| 10 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 11 | A body of representative groups headed by the Soil Association believes that it is possible to turn 20 per cent of Britain 's farming organic by the year 2000 . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression . |
| 13 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 14 | Joseph Beran ( right ) , former Archbishop of Prague , was one of the eight prisoners featured in the original Observer article . |
| 15 | Classic bathrooms inspired by the great ages of design . |
| 16 | The former are haphazard non-deliberate operations conducted at the shelves and the latter is a structured intentional activity carried out with the assistance of a bibliographic tool . |
| 17 | In the late 1970s , two budgets that were potentially important in urban economic development were the regional programmes implemented by the Department of Industry , and the policies effected by the National Enterprise Board . |
| 18 | It looks green and comforting , scattered with small stone towns and grazing sheep , the gently hilly horizons punctuated by the towers of village churches . |
| 19 | The second kind of data consists of the attributes or properties of the spatial entities shown on the maps . |
| 20 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 21 | The difficulty in obtaining the compliance of the United States to an agreement on Afghanistan between the regional states involved in the conflict stemmed from a continued American reluctance to accept an unrepresentative pro-Soviet and Marxist-inclined ( if not dominated ) government in that state . |
| 22 | Furthermore , if resources permit , it might be possible to also examine one of the telecommunications-related projects organised by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry which will contribute to the development of the broader digital network system . |
| 23 | Kate will always care enough to make sure the fridge is full of food and the airing cupboard full of clean linen and the beds changed regularly and the carpets swept and the dishes washed and the lunch cooked and the rats and the lice and the assorted nasties consigned to the dustbin of history . |
| 24 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 25 | Kahnweiler , who himself often helped the painters to choose titles for their paintings , in Der Weg zum Kubismus emphasizes the importance of the descriptive titles attached to the works as further means of enabling the spectator to reconstruct fully the subjects . |
| 26 | Atlantik-Brücke , an outfit that fosters German-American ties , has launched a campaign to help families in Germany of allied servicemen sent to the Gulf . |
| 27 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 28 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
| 29 | This chapter first describes how the British and Spanish political strategies discussed in the previous chapter have created pressures for change in the public enterprises , pressures encapsulated in the idea of ‘ commercialism ’ . |
| 30 | The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones . |