Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major audit firms have also expressed serious reservations about some elements in the APB 's package that appeared in exposure drafts last May on going concern and an extended audit report . |
| 2 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 3 | Naisbitt is more realistic than Toffler about some aspects of the shift towards an ‘ information society ’ . |
| 4 | Despite the reservations expressed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) about some aspects of the CEGB 's safety case for the Sizewell-B PWR , the inspectorate 's reaffirmation of the reactor 's potential licensability means that the overall safety case will probably not be hard to establish . |
| 5 | Iran expressed strong reservations about some aspects of the draft , and a number of other governments , among them China , Pakistan and several Arab countries , also hinted that they might not sign the treaty , the product of 24 years of protracted negotiations which had often been deadlocked by Cold War rivalry . |
| 6 | Despite my reservations about some aspects of the book , I do believe that it has much to commend it . |
| 7 | In the making of aquavitae certain plants were utilised as additives , such as some members of the Leguminosae or vetch family , , literally ‘ mice pease ’ and known simply as vetch , and or known as bitter vetch ( Lathyrus montanus ) . |
| 8 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 9 | Since the similarities between informal sector seasonal workers and formal sector factory workers are greater than between some groups within the informal sector , such as street sellers and seasonal workers , Bromley suggests a continuum of categories as a more useful form of analysis . |
| 10 | In so far as this involves finding more and more ingenious ways of keeping as many people as possible away from unspoilt parts of rural England , there is common ground between some visitors to the countryside and many of those who live and work there . |
| 11 | Compiling such a matrix diagram requires a detailed study of all the records , however , and inevitably there will be some gaps in the diagram where it was not possible to establish the precise relationship between some contexts during the excavation itself . |
| 12 | Differences between some parts of the male and female pelvis have also been described in metrical terms . |
| 13 | There is a difference , although an uncertain one , between some statements of the form If P then Q and others of the form If P , Q. ( W. A. Davis , 1983a ) Suppose that someone has unkindly disconnected the wiring between the switch and the wipers . |
| 14 | As I started to make my way up through some bushes on the left of the kirk , something caught my eye and I stopped . |
| 15 | I force my way through some bushes at the top . |
| 16 | Other teachers involved in the intake year were invited to take responsibility for preparing materials for some areas of the new curriculum . |
| 17 | Peter Sawyer has suggested that some of the earliest surviving charters of the Anglo Saxon period refer to such estates and hence for some areas in the seventh century the early estate structure can be defined . |
| 18 | The poll tax returns for some areas in the West Midlands suggest that little more than one village in ten had resident gentry , and in Leicestershire the situation seems to have been similar , and to have remained so into the sixteenth century . |
| 19 | The proponents of unitary authorities in the Royal Commission on Local Government in England accepted a need for a wider authority for some services in the metropolitan areas and for an authority that could prepare a strategic plan for conurbations . |
| 20 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 21 | Once again I am asking you to ‘ plug ’ it in your classes and if there is still some reluctance on the part of class members , perhaps the proceeds of social fund raising could be used to buy membership for some members of the class ; at the present time membership is just as important as society funds . |
| 22 | For some members of the Church of England it 'll be the fulfillment of years of campaigning , for others it 's the end of the road . |
| 23 | The emphasis on property-holding , and hence liability for rates , as the basic qualification for the franchise in local elections was thus an advantage for some women in the struggle for the vote . |
| 24 | The new cotton-spinning mills created opportunites for some women after the mid 1760s , but in many rural districts the loss of cottage spinning reduced family earnings . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend will be aware that the commuters in Kent are looking for some advantages from the channel tunnel rail link . |
| 26 | I have few comments to make , except that the sack survived very well , save for some sections of the Advent material used for the back and inside the shoulder straps , which were eaten by salt-seeking grasshoppers ! |
| 27 | For some sections of the labour force , prosperous years which had begun in the 1780s continued at least for the first part of the war . |
| 28 | I know , I was I went up for some chips at the top |
| 29 | For some commentators on the political right such as Marsland ( 1986 , p. 87 ) , the apparent weakening of family responsibility has been encouraged by the growth of state services which provide alternative sources of support . |
| 30 | The posterior root of the zygomatic process extends for some distances past the external auditory meatus as a well-defined ridge . |