Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP , Sirimavo Bandaranaike l. , Anura Bandaranaike national organizer ) ; Sri Lanka Mahajana Party ( SLMP , Ossie Abeygoonasekara l. , part of the USA in 1988 ) ; Sri Lankan Moslem Conference ( SLMC ) ; Tamil United Liberation Front ( TULF , K. Padmanabha sec. -gen. , Vardharaja Perumal l. ) ; for the 1989 elections the TULF front included the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) ; United Socialist Alliance ( USA , Vasudeva Nanayakkara l. ) a grouping formed in 1988 and including the Communist Party and the historically Trotskyite Lauka Sama Samaja Party ( LSSP ) and Nava Sama Samaja Party ( NSSP ) . |
| 2 | McDonald 's recruitment officer Christina Pellini , who is hiring trainee managers for the 50 units the company plans to open this year , uses Springboard once or twice a month because ‘ it provides good quality people ’ , she said . |
| 3 | For the 60 films the mean value of P(A) was 0.70 ( range 0.43 to 0.96 ) and the mean B was 3.21 ( range 2.00 to 4.83 ) . |
| 4 | For the 60 films the mean P(A) was 0.75 ( range 0.44 to 1.00 ) and the mean B was 3.49 ( range 1.83 to 5.10 ) . |
| 5 | For the 48 films the mean P(A) is 0.77 ( range 0.52 to 0.94 ) and the mean B is 3.07 ( range 1.6 to 4.38 ) , see Table 6.4 . |
| 6 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 7 | 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier . |
| 8 | During the 11 years the numbers of residents in NHS geriatric and psychiatric beds fell by 41% ; this fall was partly compensated for by a 37% rise in the number of patients in acute beds . |
| 9 | " Doubling " in the context of gambling is clearly shown in Saint Pierre et le jongleur , where during the two games the stakes played for are steadily doubled . |
| 10 | During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road . |
| 11 | More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position . |
| 12 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 13 | This major display of maps and related map-making equipment not only aroused considerable public interest during the three months the exhibition was open , but also generated new links with individuals and institutions in Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 14 | Between the two wars the hayfield became the recreation ground and the ancient White House on the sea front the Tourist Information Centre . |
| 15 | Between the two referendums the ERM suffered seven realignments , lost two currencies ( the pound and the lira ) and very nearly blew apart . |
| 16 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 17 | Clearly , the longer the time interval between the two assessments the greater the chances that there will be differences . |
| 18 | Despite a long history of hostility between the two organizations the tone of the seven-hour meeting was described as good-natured , while the joint peace strategy which emerged was seen as a positive development . |
| 19 | So the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way , anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves ? |
| 20 | There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book . |
| 21 | In five of the six companies the environmental issues are determined mainly by the planners within the planning department itself and in a totally informal way . |
| 22 | In five of the six cases the main focus of the headline was on the woman 's marital status : Church wife 's boy lover ; Young wife 's sexy games ; Sex in Jacuzzi for wife and lover , aged 12 ; A ‘ sex mad ’ wife 's schoolboy lovers ; A wife 's ten boy lovers . |
| 23 | On each of the six nights the auditorium was packed to capacity with a seating of 1,500 . |
| 24 | Erm firstly that if an existing employment use falls to another land use , this is what Mr Allenby was just saying , the subsequent release of employment land onto the market does not come out of the sixty hectares the structure plan 's asking for , that 's what that 's what Mr Allenby just said , I hope he wo n't come back on it , major point . |
| 25 | International donors have delivered only about a quarter of the 200,000 tons of promised food aid — a fraction of the million tons the country needs . |
| 26 | With counting complete in all but 14 of the 20,120 constituencies the CDU had won 34.4 per cent of the vote ( 40.82 per cent in the March general election ) ; the Social Democrats ( SPD ) 21.3 per cent ( 21.88 ) ; the reformed communist Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) 14.6 per cent ( 16.4 ) ; the League of Free Democrats ( BFD ) 6.7 per cent ( 5.28 ) ; the Democratic Peasants ' Party ( DBD ) 3.8 per cent ( 2.18 ) ; the German Social Union ( DSU ) 3.4 per cent ( 6.31 ) ; and New Forum 2.4 per cent ( 2.91 ) . |
| 27 | Of the two groups the former are more biassed towards persuasive selling , whilst the latter tend to be order-takers . |
| 28 | Of the two combos the 2x10 is the more compact , at 23″H x 20.5″W x 16″D , whereas the 1155 has a height of 27.5″ . |
| 29 | Of the two archers the younger was tall and fair with a ruddy complexion , the other was of medium height and stalwart build , his hair grizzled at the temples , his eyes grey , his mouth well set above a firm chin , and his expression one of habitual good-humour , as though of a man at peace with himself if not with the world . |
| 30 | It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won . |