Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did dream about some kittens the other night , there was |
| 2 | As Clinton Rossiter maintained , for some presidents the chief executive 's most difficult task ‘ is not to persuade Congress to support a policy dear to his political heart , but to persuade the pertinent bureau or agency or mission , even when headed by men of his own choosing , to follow his direction faithfully and transform the shadow of the policy into the substance of a program ’ . |
| 3 | Although for some domains the specific dictionary far outperformed the general , the overall margin , on average , was insufficient to justify their continued use . |
| 4 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 5 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 6 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 7 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 8 | For some years the local authority sent boxes of books which were changed monthly and which were distributed by volunteers from their homes or village halls on two evenings a week . |
| 9 | For some schools the central guidelines will be interpreted through a carefully structured timetable . |
| 10 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 11 | After several sessions the international commission resolved the problem . |
| 12 | At a joint meeting reviewing the agreement on March 20 , both sides noted that in spite of some problems the overall timetable of the withdrawal , which was due to be completed by July 1991 , was being fulfilled . |
| 13 | Through a complex set of such exchanges the economic activities of people who are widely dispersed and who are entirely unaware of each other 's existence can be coordinated . |
| 14 | In the face of such difficulties the labour-only sub-contractor will withdraw his labour or raise a contra-account to cover any loss he sustains . |
| 15 | In the absence of such conflicts the local or regional state acts as the instrument of local or regional capitalists , except when their interests are too parochial . |
| 16 | In a sample of such atoms the different hidden settings of these internal clocks would produce the sort of statistical distribution that quantum theory predicted . |
| 17 | In most of these groups the black and ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented |
| 18 | Because of these uncertainties the appropriate time for selecting the multiplier is at the time of death and the number of pre-trial years for which special damages are awarded should then be deducted from the multiplier ( Graham v Dodds [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 808 ) . |
| 19 | In the forest home of these birds the obscured vision in dense foliage necessitates a courtship strategy in which females are pursued and shown to their nest sites . |
| 20 | The first of these concerns the reciprocal nature of kin exchanges . |
| 21 | So as a result of combining both of these strategies the differing male and female strategies |
| 22 | With all of these writers the technical , and apparently neutral , quality of their specialist , language is used to give greater weight and universality to arguments about literacy and objectivity which , when analysed closely , can he demonstrated to rest upon social and ideological presuppositions . |
| 23 | In some of these cases the collaborative style was really withdrawal , and such was the tension and confusion generated by the participants claiming to be working together but not really doing so , that it would have been better to drop the pretence and designate the practice withdrawal . |
| 24 | In both of these cases the intended object of the trust has failed . |
| 25 | In each of these cases the basic problem is the same : a will has been made , and in it a debtor is left a legacy of liberatio from what he owes the testator . |
| 26 | While government and insurance funds are available toward the cost of these services the provincial municipalities still have to contribute local funding for their development . |
| 27 | As a consequence of these complications the Modular Course has to operate a planning and response structure , through its own committees and crucially through a termly meeting of Heads of Departments contributing to the Course , that is not only sensitive to overall Polytechnic directives but also ensures a sensible collaborative response . |
| 28 | In the former of these circumstances the old county histories may be searched to considerable effect , for not only may they describe the church as it then was , but give further clues as to where data may be found . |
| 29 | In many of these countries the new respect for human rights was embodied in the repeal or revision of laws used to imprison prisoners of conscience . |
| 30 | Since association ( or multi-employer ) bargaining became a major part of the industrial relations systems of these countries the specific collective bargaining role of employers ' associations now requires more detailed analysis . |