Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons of space the diaries are limited to those of the school secretary , school social worker , head of primary department , supply class teacher ( juniors ) and welfare assistant ( infants ) . |
| 2 | For reasons of economy the population of individuals approached is usually a small sample of the total relevant population . |
| 3 | I do n't know what was the reason in this case , but in any event when ops were cancelled like this , late in the day when it was getting dark , for reasons of safety the armourers waited for daylight before de-bombing the aircraft . |
| 4 | After hours of deliberation the court failed to rule on the constitutionality of Mr Yeltsin 's measures . |
| 5 | After months of preparation the move went remarkably well , marking the start of a new chapter for Baricol . |
| 6 | August 1990 After months of discussion the five permanent members of the UN Security Council transform the Australian plan into a comprehensive " framework document " [ see p. 37654 ] . |
| 7 | After months of debate the Federal Assembly on Feb. 21 approved legislation returning nationalized property to former owners or their heirs . |
| 8 | After months of debate the Australian government announced on Nov. 23 that it had lifted a ban on homosexuals in the armed forces . |
| 9 | After months of debate the National Assembly on Dec. 17 adopted a new abortion law replacing that in force under communist rule ( and suspended in 1990 ) which effectively allowed abortion on demand . |
| 10 | After months of restoration the two hundred seat auditorium will have an audience for the first time in thirty years . |
| 11 | Antall declared that " after decades of dictatorship the political reflexes of the Hungarian people have not changed " , since the centrist alliance of the HDF , the Christian Democratic People 's Party and the Independent Smallholders ' Party had together " achieved the same result as the Smallholders in 1945 " ( which had then won 57 per cent of the vote ) . |
| 12 | After days of peace the door would crash open : ‘ There 's six men here with lorries . |
| 13 | It states that during periods of confinement the locum costs arising will not be reimbursed if the locum is a member of the practice . |
| 14 | In his collection of essays on genius the distinguished neurologist , the late Sir William Russell Brain , concluded about Smart that ‘ clearly he suffered from manic-depressive insanity or cyclothymia ’ and there is much to support that diagnosis . |
| 15 | It is important that all the possibly infected sites are sampled , since in a small percentage of cases of gonorrhoea the rectum or urethra may be the only site involved . |
| 16 | To deal with such difficulties and unnecessary travel of pieces of paper the Bank of England announced in November 1988 that it would set up a Central Money Markets Office ( CMO ) to develop a book entry transfer system to enable money market instrument paper to be ‘ immobilised ’ and eventually be ‘ dematerialised ’ . |
| 17 | The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike . |
| 18 | Most pump manufacturers supply the information concerning the number of gallons per hour the pump can manage , at a given head of height . |
| 19 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 20 | In the context of reproduction , males make use of weapons ( teeth , horns , etc. ) in competitive encounters with male rivals and also make use of their courtship display characteristics in the presence of females in order the attract them . |
| 21 | Rather , they reflect our ability to compute out of utterances in sequence the contextual assumptions they amply : the facts about the spatial , temporal and social relationships between participants , and their requisite beliefs and intentions in undertaking certain verbal exchanges . |
| 22 | A government team led by Foreign Minister Michael Somare signed an interim peace agreement on Aug. 5 , with a delegation representing the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) , following eight days of negotiations on board the New Zealand naval supply ship Endeavour . |
| 23 | There are a number of points of view the executive want to put and I 'll be calling Paul at the end of that debate . |
| 24 | The morning journey , in spite of the number of students on board the tram , was usually quiet . |
| 25 | The reason for this , he argues , is that the older the average age of women at marriage the greater the equality between the sexes , the greater the commitment to feminism , and the smaller the age-difference between husband and wife : ‘ Cultural take-off brings about the disappearance of the child-woman and thus of the child-wife ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 26 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |
| 27 | In Fig. 8–3 we show for purposes of illustration the Cobb Douglas case . |
| 28 | Furthermore , now that solicitors are strongly recommended to provide information about costs in advance the Society will carry out a review of whether clients should continue to have the right to ask the Society to reduce a solicitor ; s bill by the remuneration certificate process . |
| 29 | Rather similar to this apparent endorsement of insincerity is the distinction he draws between qualities of character the praise of which is useful and qualities of character which are useful themselves . |
| 30 | For viewers of video the location of a scene may provide many clues as to the content of an interaction , for example a shop . |