Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 2 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 3 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 4 | But this , as I have indicated , does not in all cases make for the construction of a more liberal society . |
| 5 | This was ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /F t , plus the interest at the risk-free rate ( r ) on the average price of the futures contract during the period , that is , r ( F t +1 ; + F t ) /2F t , to give [ F t +1 ; ( 2 + r ) - F t ( 2 - r ) ] /2F t as the measure of return on a future . |
| 6 | If it were not for the possibility of physical delivery of the underlying cash market good by the seller of the futures contract to the buyer , there would be no mechanism to guarantee convergence of futures and spot prices . |
| 7 | Volume was measured separately for each outstanding futures contract by the number of contracts traded during the day . |
| 8 | Oolitic grainstones predominate at the edge of the platform where the coastal sand barriers that enclosed the lagoons , became established . |
| 9 | Other experts fear for the future — MDMA damages nerve terminals in rats and monkeys , and there is a strong possibility that it causes similar damage in humans . |
| 10 | To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place . |
| 11 | The honours list simply shores up Britain 's class system guaranteeing that those with grand hereditary titles remain at the top of the heap . |
| 12 | A total of 94 riders remain in the race with four stages to go.Two dropped out yesterday , Australian Rob McLachlan submitting to flu and South African Steven Wolhuter being admitted to Shrewsbury Hospital for a check-up though he was released later . |
| 13 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 14 | In fevers the chills predominate with the fever mostly in the day , red faced with cold hands . |
| 15 | Norms develop about the task , i.e. the work the people were hired to do . |
| 16 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 17 | The twin solutions to equation ( 9.15 ) of equal positive and negative phase shifts correspond to the possibility of feeding a signal in at either end of the symmetric section and loading it with its characteristic impedance at the other end . |
| 18 | A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer . |
| 19 | Taking Norfolk as a case study , this project investigates the contribution which local authorities make in the area of job-creation through their provision of industrial premises . |
| 20 | Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning , an essential component of mature intelligence . |
| 21 | However , plans remain for the construction of major irrigation works — with possible support from EC structural funds — which would transform the habitat . |
| 22 | As figure 4.3 shows , in 1984 , 41.5 per cent of fulltime women workers were to be found in clerical employment , while a very few further occupational groups account for the rest of most women in paid work . |
| 23 | ( The Scottish Central Institutions remain under the aegis of the Scottish Education Department . ) |
| 24 | He believes that the proposals discriminate against the bulk of United Kingdom agriculture . |
| 25 | An action potential in the presynaptic neuron releases neurotransmitter into the cleft . |
| 26 | In Vaill 's terms , organizations or groups qualify for the title ‘ high-performing system ’ if they : |
| 27 | Though my dad says she 'll have to move now in case the Germans land on the coast . ’ |
| 28 | The Efta states remain outside the jurisdiction of the European Court and free from any EEC decisions which do not relate directly to trade . |
| 29 | One would only wish to receive this kind of evidence with caution , hesitating to draw stereotypical impressions of the children of engineers and actors , and impressions gathered some decades ago , aware as we are that social behaviour and social attitudes change with the passing of time . |
| 30 | Table 4.4 Recent trading history on MATIF , main contracts The Government Bond futures and options contracts account for the bulk of trading on the MATIF . |