Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewyn and his son Walter undertook in 1392 to renew all defective roads at Brancepeth , probably the result of heavy wear during building operations at the castle there . |
| 2 | The equivalent of income-based taxes on the expenditure side is the personal expenditure tax , which places a tax on the difference between income receipts during the financial year and savings in the year , i.e. a tax on that part of the income that is consumed . |
| 3 | Timber was in high demand for building ships for the British Navy and many fine trees were felled . |
| 4 | They had ideas for building houses from the roof downwards , turning rocks into soft material , making rivers run uphill , and saving sunshine in bottles . |
| 5 | This Charnwood Forest granite is so hard that there was no known way of dressing it well enough for building purposes until the nineteenth century , but it was used for millstones and supplied road metal and kerbstones to London and other parts of England . |
| 6 | during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion |
| 7 | ‘ during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion ‘ During daytime hours ’ means the time between half-an-hour before sunrise and half-an-hour after sunset . |
| 8 | ‘ during daytime hours without the lamps being lit while the vehicle was in motion ’ The daytime hours can be proved by reference to an almanac or from a witness 's observations if this is found necessary . |
| 9 | Now if you choose the right site for your hole on that road , you have a good view through field glasses of the camp — and no one 's going to notice a small slit in the canvas cover of a telephone-hole . |
| 10 | The swans that we are concerned about build ships on the River Tyne . |
| 11 | They will also run the plant providing enrichment for defence purposes until the end of the contract with the Ministry of Defence next year . |
| 12 | The African Development Bank is to draw up new guidelines for funding projects in the forestry sector . |
| 13 | ‘ Holyoak talks about building houses in the centre of Birmingham . |
| 14 | Practices are actually in danger of going bankrupt through computer errors on the part of the administrators . ’ |
| 15 | Nonetheless , a feeling for continuity will need to address the sticky issue of curriculum balance — balance between elements in each individual class , and balance between curriculum arrangements across the school as a whole . |
| 16 | It also stated that public money had been used to fund two other black organizations , the Federal Independent Association ( FIDA ) , a conservative group strongly opposed to sanctions , and the Eagles , which anti-apartheid activists alleged was responsible for vigilante actions in the townships . |
| 17 | This last approach using linkages between text fields in the database records looks like being the most promising model for multimedia database design . |
| 18 | Each span has a 1 or 1½ hp electric motor which drives through reduction gearboxes to the pair of heavy duty tyres . |
| 19 | Omagh sisters Olivia ( 15 ) and nine-year-old Laura McGuckin also still make time for story books outside the classroom . |
| 20 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |
| 21 | They suspect that many third-party accident claims have been made through branch offices of the firm for phantom vehicles that never existed . |
| 22 | Easter , eight o'clock , half-seven my brother and sister are looking for Easter eggs in the house . |
| 23 | New technology arrived for computer manuals in the late 1970s with the use of microfiche as an alternative to hard copy . |
| 24 | You do n't have to be high tech , even in a high tech industry , to bring home the bacon , and Lion Cabinets Ltd of Leeds repeated its 1991 success with yet another award for the export of its mild steel enclosures and mountings for computer peripherals to the US , Germany , Italy and Israel . |
| 25 | * What is more , they are now suffering severe competition as index fossils from the plastic bottle , which is ( regrettably ) much more easily preserved . |
| 26 | Man for man the SEALs were one of the most effective units in Vietnam , and remain a good model for COIN operations in the future . |
| 27 | ‘ The MMB has done an excellent job for milk producers in the past , providing a sure market and a guaranteed payment for their milk . ’ |
| 28 | There is a mouthwatering choice of excellent value for money dishes on the Beefeater menu . |
| 29 | In addition to the subject working groups , the Secretary of State set up a Task Group on Testing and Assessment ( TGAT ) , which reported in early 1988 with recommendations for assessment arrangements for the national curriculum ; by and large , these were accepted by the Secretary of State . |
| 30 | My personal preference is for valve amps as the sound obtained is generally warmer , but the transistor amps offer a better power/weight ratio , not to mention the cost factor ! |