Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should not overrate his resources , the goodness of his debts or the probable sale of his merchandise . |
| 2 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 3 | Whilst it described an ‘ Internal Market ’ where ‘ [ … ] the district health authority operates much like the Health Maintenance Organisation in America ; here the patient and GP may have less choice concerning where treatment is obtained because the health authority will make its own assessment of value for money services from other authorities or the private sector ’ , it also pointed out that there is another totally different model being advocated under the generic term ‘ Internal Market ’ , that is ‘ Automatic and immediate cross-boundary flow reimbursernent ’ , which it states ‘ carries the internal market concept to its full fruition , involving transferring the initiative from the planners and treasurers , to the market customers ( i.e. patients ) and their advisers ( i.e. GPs ) with money following the patient ’ . |
| 4 | If some companies are incorporated in ( for example ) Spain , Italy , Germany or Finland which set of accounts are to be warranted : the legal ( tax-based ) accounts or the internal management ( business-based ) accounts ? |
| 5 | to report to parents , employers or the next stage of education ; |
| 6 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 7 | FTC could probably make the idea work without coverage of the 22 Premier League clubs or the European Cup mini-leagues , but it would be impossible to do so without the co-operation of the Football League clubs unloaded by the Premier League as , ironically , an impediment to their progress . |
| 8 | Wherever CT scans or the new MRI scans or even ultrasound scans are involved in the management of patients , the images can be transferred down an image link . |
| 9 | It 's a friendly rolling dale , green and fertile , yet with limestone scars , gritstone crags and high ridges , giving miles of walking along the high wild peaks or the gentler riverside paths . |
| 10 | ‘ They come and go , so it pays to deal with a member of a professional body , such as the NAEA , the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers . |
| 11 | The relevant conditions of engagement may be either those of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers . |
| 12 | The SWD-funded school provides 24 places for children referred by children 's hearings , courts or the Scottish Secretary . |
| 13 | References to the House of Lords would be available following a decision of the Court of Appeal , but could also be allowed from either the county courts or the High Court where the Attorney-General was satisfied that the criteria for the grant of a certificate under Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 were met . |
| 14 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 15 | The crucial question , however , is how much opportunity critical ministers are afforded in full Cabinet when it comes to reshaping or even reopening decisions reached in Cabinet committees , those ad hoc meetings or the Prime Minister 's ‘ judge and jury ’ sessions . |
| 16 | A well-equipped seaside town , with a pretty marina , it offers water-skiing , windsurfing and sailing , walks in fragrant pine woods or the lovely park , plenty of shops , bars and restaurants . |
| 17 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
| 18 | Within the community they made no attempt to ape the gentry , were accorded no special title , and yet enjoyed ‘ a certeine preheminence , and more estimation than labourers & the common sort of artificers ’ . |
| 19 | Now assume that the government spends more money — £10 billion say , on roads or the National Health Service . |
| 20 | However early performers and audiences construed the metaphors or the financial/numerical language , it is fairly certain that they did n't explicitly understand them in terms of Freeman 's image schemas , or as explicable in terms of their bodies . |
| 21 | The party leader , Kurt Schumacher , was a strong-minded social reformer and anti-communist , but his energies had been sapped by years in concentration camps under the Nazis , he refused to co-operate with ‘ bourgeois ’ political parties or the Catholic Church , and he had an abrasive , intolerant personal manner . |
| 22 | Do we have any feedback from any other local parties or the National Party are they recommending it or they only putting out feelers to local parties and ask what what we feel about it ? |
| 23 | Some of the members of our community had taken the decision to join the mass political organizations or the armed struggle but that was their personal choice and the community never expressed an opinion on the subject . |
| 24 | Masked as they are by the sexual scents of other animals or the synthesised fragrance of flowers , they probably still affect our behaviour to some extent . |
| 25 | Might a new microorganism released for a specific purpose such as disease control , mutate and become a threat to other plants , animals or the ecological equilibrium of the environment ? |
| 26 | She did n't trust the light in his eyes or the reckless note in his voice . |
| 27 | Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools . |
| 28 | The brilliant orange of gazanias or the taller Tithonia rotundifolia both look effective with silvery foliage . |
| 29 | They do not see the antiquated Gloria combine harvesters or the Transylvanian wheat fields bloodshot with poppies : charming to the eye , but evidence of faltering investment in machinery and decent fertilisers . |
| 30 | I am not talking here about your work surfaces , or work triangles or the general space/work efficiency of your kitchen , but rather if you could use your kitchen as more of a family room-the sort of room which friends as well as family tend to migrate to at the first available opportunity . |